Non-Confidential Summary

Market Need

Allows substance use counsellors and researchers to assess the situations in which a client has used alcohol over the last year.

Technology Description

A clinical tool that allows substance use counsellors and researchers to assess the situations in which a client has used alcohol over the last year. It gauges a client’s substance use over the same 50 risk situations. The IDTS can be used in both individual and group counselling programs with clients whose substance use problems range from mild to severe. The (IDTS) consists of two separate questionnaires—one for alcohol and one for up to three other drugs.

Stage of Development

Validated.

Advantages

The IDTS generates a separate profile of risk situations for each substance and can be used in both individual and group counselling programs with clients whose substance use problems range from mild to severe.

Notable Publication

Sklar, S.M., Annis, H.M. & Turner, N.E. (1997). Development and validation of the Drug-Taking Questionnaire: A measure of coping self-efficacy. Addictive Behaviors, 22(5), 655-670.