Addiction Severity Index (ASI / EuropASI)

Full name of scale

(ASI) Addiction Severity Index(McLellan et al., 1992)

Languages

English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Russian

Rater

Clinician-rated

Training

Required

Utility

Administered as a semi-structured interview. This tool serves as a guidance instrument in treatment planning. This instrument is an interview process that assesses history, frequency, and consequences of alcohol and drug use

Time to complete

45–60-minutes

Cost/license

No information found

Full name of scale

European Addiction Severity Index (Scheurich et al., 2000)

Languages

English, Spanish, Hungarian

Rater

Clinician-rated

Training

No information found

Utility

It is used for clinical and research settings

It is designed to provide basic diagnostic information on a client prior, during and after treatment for substance use-related problems, and for the assessment of change in client status and treatment outcome.

Time to complete

30 -40 minutes to complete

Cost/license

Open access

Versions can be downloaded from here: https://research.phmc.org/products/addiction-severity-index

McLellan, A. T., Kushner, H., Metzger, D., Peters, R., Smith, I., Grissom, G., … Argeriou, M. (1992). The Fifth Edition of the Addiction Severity Index. J Subst Abuse Treat, 9(3), 199–213. Follow this link for the article.

Scheurich, A., Müller, M. J., Wetzel, H., Anghelescu, I., Klawe, C., Ruppe, A., … Schmid, G. (2000). Reliability and validity of the German version of the European Addiction Severity Index (EuropASI). Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 61(6), 916–919. Follow this link for the article.

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