ABSTRACT
Although the clinical interview remains the most frequently used procedure to assess substance abuse (Craig, 1988a), there are a number of structured instruments that are also available for this purpose. Two types of assessment inventories have appeared in the literature: (a) Instruments have been developed that were explicitly designed to assess substance abuse and its consequences. Examples of these include the Addiction Severity Index, the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test, the Comprehensive Drinkers Profile, and the Substance Abuse Problem Checklist, and (b) Objective Personality tests that include scales that also assess substance abusing tendencies or problems. The more popular of these include the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2), and the MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale-R, derived from the MMPI.
