Instrument details

Instrument Title

Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST) - Short Form

Source Article

McCabe, S. E. (2008). Screening for drug abuse among medical and nonmedical users of prescription drugs in a probability sample of college students. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 162(3), 225.

Response Options

YES or NO

Survey Items

These questions refer to the last twelve months

Have you used drugs other than those required for medical reasons?
Have you used more than 1 drug at a time?
Are you always able to stop using drugs when you want to?
Have you had blackouts or flashbacks as a result of drug use?
Do you ever felt bad or guilty about your drug use?
Have family members ever complained about your involvement with drugs?
Have you stayed away from your family because of your use of drugs?
Have you engaged in illegal activities in order to obtain drugs?
Have you ever experienced withdrawal symptoms (felt sick) when you stopped taking drugs?
Have you had medical problems as a result of your drug use (e.g., memory loss, hepatitis, convulsions, or bleeding)?

Internal Reliability

Good reliability (Cronbach =0.86) and temporal stability (test-retest intraclass correlation coefficient=0.71)

Validity

Concurrent validity

Google Scholar

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Terms Of Use

Individuals may use this information for research or educational purposes only and may not use this information for commercial purposes. When using this instrument, please cite:

When presenting results using any survey information you obtained from the SABI, please acknowledge the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), an NIH funded program P30 AI50410.