Are you dependent on alcohol?

15 Questions

The questions below are designed to test whether you are dependent on alcohol.  They will give an indication of whether you are likely to need medication to help you through the withdrawal syndrome that often accompanies stopping drinking.  The results of this questionnaire are also factored into the decision tool in the member's section of the website.

1. Do you find difficulty in getting the thought of drinking out of your mind?
Never Sometimes Often Nearly always
2. Is getting drunk more important than your next meal?
Never Sometimes Often Nearly always
3. Do you plan your day around when and where you can drink?
Never Sometimes Often Nearly always
4. Do you drink in the morning, afternoon, and evening?
Never Sometimes Often Nearly always
5. Do you drink for the effect of alcohol without caring what the drink is?
Never Sometimes Often Nearly always
6. Do you drink as much as you want irrespective of what you are doing the next day?
Never Sometimes Often Nearly always
7. Given that many problems might be caused by alcohol, do you still drink too much?
Never Sometimes Often Nearly always
8. Do you know that you won't be able to stop drinking once you start?
Never Sometimes Often Nearly always
9. Do you try to control your drinking by giving it up completely for days or weeks at a time?
Never Sometimes Often Nearly always
10. The morning after a heavy drinking session do you need your first drink to get yourself going?
Never Sometimes Often Nearly always
11. The morning after a heavy drinking session do you wake up with a definite shakiness of your hands?
Never Sometimes Often Nearly always
12. After a heavy drinking session do you wake up and retch or vomit?
Never Sometimes Often Nearly always
13. The morning after a heavy drinking session do you go out of your way to avoid people?
Never Sometimes Often Nearly always
14. After a heavy drinking session do you see frightening things that later you realize were imaginary?
Never Sometimes Often Nearly always
15. Do you go drinking and the next day find that you have forgotten what happened the night before?
Never Sometimes Often Nearly always