University Of Cape Town Pilots Alcohol, Smoking & Substance Involvement Tool Web App

To support students in need, the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa, in partnership with the Department of Social Development, is piloting a web app – the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Tool (ASSIST) to identify addiction risk among UCT students. ASSIST creates a risk score based on responses to questions about substance used and frequency, and about the impact on functioning, relationships, and ability to work.

Associate Professor Goodman Sibeko in UCT’s Division of Addiction Psychiatry said “The tool can be used to reliably measure whether there is a certain level of risk in our population…. Once . . .