ASAM EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. Dimension 1 - ANSWER ✔ Acute Intoxication and/or Withdrawal Potential
2. Dimension 2 - ANSWER ✔ Biomedical Conditions and Complications
3. Dimension 3 - ANSWER ✔ Emotional, Behavioral, or Cognitive Conditions
and Complications
4. Dimension 4 - ANSWER ✔ readiness to change
5. Dimension 5 - ANSWER ✔ Relapse, Continued Use, or Continued Problem
Potential
6. Dimension 6 - ANSWER ✔ Recovery environment
7. What is ASAM? - ANSWER ✔ American Society of Addiction Medicine- it
provides a common language of holistic, biopsychosocial assessment and
treatment across addiction treatment
,8. ASAM Definition of treatment - ANSWER ✔ treatment is the use of any
planned, intentional intervention in the health, behavior, personal, and or
family life of an individual suffering from alcoholism or from another drug
dependency designed to enable the affected individual to achieve and
maintain sobriety, physical and mental health, and a maximum functional
ability
9. Six Dimensions of Multidimensional Assessment - ANSWER ✔ 1. Acute
Intoxication and/or WD potential
2. bio medical conditions and complications
3. emotional, behavioral, or cognitive conditions and complications
4. readiness to change
5. relapse, continued use, or continued problem potential
6. recovery/living environment
10.Dimension 1 of ASAM - ANSWER ✔ Acute Intoxication and/or withdrawal
potential
-exploring an indv. past and current experiences of SU and WD
11.Dimension 2 of ASAM - ANSWER ✔ Biomedical conditions and
complications
-exploring an ind health history and current physical condition
12.Dimension 3 of ASAM - ANSWER ✔ emotional, behavioral, or cognitive
conditions and complications
-exploring and ind thoughts, emotions, and mental health issues
13.Dimension 4 of ASAM - ANSWER ✔ Readiness to change
,-exploring an ind readiness and interest in changing
14.Dimension 5 of ASAM - ANSWER ✔ relapse, continued use, or continued
problem potential
-an ind unique relationship with relapse or continued use or problems
15.Dimension 6 of ASAM - ANSWER ✔ an ind recovery or living situation,
and the surrounding people, places, and things
16.ASAM risk rating system - ANSWER ✔ 0 - 4 low, moderate, high risk
17.Risk rating 0 - ANSWER ✔ non-issue or very low-risk issue .. No current
risk/chronic issues would be stabilized
18.risk rating 1 - ANSWER ✔ mildly difficult issue/present minor signs and
symptoms .. chronic issues resolved w/i short period of time
19.risk rating 2 - ANSWER ✔ moderate difficulty in functioning ... somewhat
persistent chronic issues
may still have relevant skills or support systems
20.risk rating 3 - ANSWER ✔ serious issue or difficulty coping within a given
dimension
... in or near "imminent danger"
, 21.risk rating 4 - ANSWER ✔ issues of the utmost severity ... presenting with
critical impairments in coping and functioning, w/ signs and symptoms,
indicating "imminent danger"
22.Levels of Care - ANSWER ✔ 0.5 - early intervention
1 - outpatient services
2.1 - IOP
2.5 - partial hospitalization
3.1 - clinically managed LOW-intensity residential services
3.3 - clinically managed pop-spec. HIGH-intensity residential services
3.5 - clinically managed HIGH-intensity residential services
3.7 - medically monitored intensive inpatient services
4 - medically managed intensive inpatient services
23.0.5 Early Intervention - ANSWER ✔ assessment and education for at-risk
ind who do not meet diagnostic criteria for SUD
1.0 Outpatient Services - ANSWER ✔ adults- less than 9 hrs/wk --- less than 6 for
adolescents
-recovery or motivational enhancement therapies
24.2.1 Intensive Outpatient Services - ANSWER ✔ 6 or more for teens; 9 or
more for adults to treat multidimensional instability
25.2.5 Partial Hospitalization - ANSWER ✔ 20+ hours/wk for
multidimensional services not requiring 24 hour care
26.3.1 Clinically Managed LOW-Intensity Residential Services - ANSWER ✔
24/hr structure with available trained personnel; at least 5 hrs of clinical
services a wk
COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. Dimension 1 - ANSWER ✔ Acute Intoxication and/or Withdrawal Potential
2. Dimension 2 - ANSWER ✔ Biomedical Conditions and Complications
3. Dimension 3 - ANSWER ✔ Emotional, Behavioral, or Cognitive Conditions
and Complications
4. Dimension 4 - ANSWER ✔ readiness to change
5. Dimension 5 - ANSWER ✔ Relapse, Continued Use, or Continued Problem
Potential
6. Dimension 6 - ANSWER ✔ Recovery environment
7. What is ASAM? - ANSWER ✔ American Society of Addiction Medicine- it
provides a common language of holistic, biopsychosocial assessment and
treatment across addiction treatment
,8. ASAM Definition of treatment - ANSWER ✔ treatment is the use of any
planned, intentional intervention in the health, behavior, personal, and or
family life of an individual suffering from alcoholism or from another drug
dependency designed to enable the affected individual to achieve and
maintain sobriety, physical and mental health, and a maximum functional
ability
9. Six Dimensions of Multidimensional Assessment - ANSWER ✔ 1. Acute
Intoxication and/or WD potential
2. bio medical conditions and complications
3. emotional, behavioral, or cognitive conditions and complications
4. readiness to change
5. relapse, continued use, or continued problem potential
6. recovery/living environment
10.Dimension 1 of ASAM - ANSWER ✔ Acute Intoxication and/or withdrawal
potential
-exploring an indv. past and current experiences of SU and WD
11.Dimension 2 of ASAM - ANSWER ✔ Biomedical conditions and
complications
-exploring an ind health history and current physical condition
12.Dimension 3 of ASAM - ANSWER ✔ emotional, behavioral, or cognitive
conditions and complications
-exploring and ind thoughts, emotions, and mental health issues
13.Dimension 4 of ASAM - ANSWER ✔ Readiness to change
,-exploring an ind readiness and interest in changing
14.Dimension 5 of ASAM - ANSWER ✔ relapse, continued use, or continued
problem potential
-an ind unique relationship with relapse or continued use or problems
15.Dimension 6 of ASAM - ANSWER ✔ an ind recovery or living situation,
and the surrounding people, places, and things
16.ASAM risk rating system - ANSWER ✔ 0 - 4 low, moderate, high risk
17.Risk rating 0 - ANSWER ✔ non-issue or very low-risk issue .. No current
risk/chronic issues would be stabilized
18.risk rating 1 - ANSWER ✔ mildly difficult issue/present minor signs and
symptoms .. chronic issues resolved w/i short period of time
19.risk rating 2 - ANSWER ✔ moderate difficulty in functioning ... somewhat
persistent chronic issues
may still have relevant skills or support systems
20.risk rating 3 - ANSWER ✔ serious issue or difficulty coping within a given
dimension
... in or near "imminent danger"
, 21.risk rating 4 - ANSWER ✔ issues of the utmost severity ... presenting with
critical impairments in coping and functioning, w/ signs and symptoms,
indicating "imminent danger"
22.Levels of Care - ANSWER ✔ 0.5 - early intervention
1 - outpatient services
2.1 - IOP
2.5 - partial hospitalization
3.1 - clinically managed LOW-intensity residential services
3.3 - clinically managed pop-spec. HIGH-intensity residential services
3.5 - clinically managed HIGH-intensity residential services
3.7 - medically monitored intensive inpatient services
4 - medically managed intensive inpatient services
23.0.5 Early Intervention - ANSWER ✔ assessment and education for at-risk
ind who do not meet diagnostic criteria for SUD
1.0 Outpatient Services - ANSWER ✔ adults- less than 9 hrs/wk --- less than 6 for
adolescents
-recovery or motivational enhancement therapies
24.2.1 Intensive Outpatient Services - ANSWER ✔ 6 or more for teens; 9 or
more for adults to treat multidimensional instability
25.2.5 Partial Hospitalization - ANSWER ✔ 20+ hours/wk for
multidimensional services not requiring 24 hour care
26.3.1 Clinically Managed LOW-Intensity Residential Services - ANSWER ✔
24/hr structure with available trained personnel; at least 5 hrs of clinical
services a wk
