Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST)

Full name of scale

Drug Abuse Screening Test (Skinner, 1982)

Languages

English; numerous translations including Spanish for the 10-item DAST (DAST-10; Bedregal et al. 2006), Portuguese, Hebrew, Arabic, and Thai.

Rater

Patient-rated

Can also be administered by a clinician

Utility

It is used to provide a brief, self-report instrument for population screening, clinical case finding and treatment evaluation research.

It can be used with adults and older youth.

Versions

• DAST-28; 28 item measure
• DAST-10; 10 item measure

Time to complete

Approximately 5 minutes (the DAST-10)

Cost/license

To use this tool, please contact Dr. Harvey Skinner at hskinner [at] yorku.ca