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Addiction Severity Index

The ASI is a multidimensional, clinician-administered semi-structured interview assessing severity of substance use disorder and related psychosocial problems across seven domains: medical, employment, drug use, alcohol use, legal, family/social, and psychiatric. Developed by McLellan and colleagues in 1980 and refined through editions, it has become the gold standard comprehensive assessment tool in addiction medicine, substance abuse treatment programs, and research. The ASI provides both interview-derived severity ratings (0–9 per domain) and composite scores enabling treatment planning and outcome monitoring.

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Addiction Severity Index (ASI)

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  1. McLellan, A. T., Luborsky, L., Woody, G. E., & O'Brien, C. P. (1980). An improved diagnostic evaluation instrument for substance abuse patients: The Addiction Severity Index. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 168(1), 26–33. · DOI 10.1097/00005053-198001000-00006

  2. McLellan, A. T., Kusama, H. F., & Metzger, D. S. (1992). The fifth edition of the Addiction Severity Index. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 9(3), 199–213. · DOI 10.1016/0740-5472(92)90062-S

  3. Cacciola, J. S., Alterman, A. I., McLellan, A. T., Lin, Z. B., & Lynch, K. G. (1997). Initial evidence for the reliability and validity of a "lite" version of the Addiction Severity Index. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 44(1), 9–19. · URL

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