so , here sat the entire department , moving through the process with the grace of congress.no one could agree on anything.todays topic : their means of assessment.carol had devised the process and the forms they used to assess each patient upon admission.she had developed this based on her years of addiction experience and the guidelines used nationally by the american society of addiction medicine.known as asam , '' the structure was becoming the most universal language for diagnosis and determined level of treatment within the addiction recovery community .