Alcohol Addiction Test

Alcohol addiction? Need Alcoholics Anonymous? A rehab? How do you know?

Addiction creeps in slowly. At first it’s just fun – drinking with friends on the weekend, occasionally after work as well, then it becomes every night – you get the picture. So you start thinking maybe I am drinking too much but then again, maybe not – it’s hard to admit to alcohol addiction. This is called ‘denial’.

Here’s a simple self-test by the US. National Counsel on Alcoholism which will help you decide.

Answer yes or no to these 26 questions and find out if you're just a heavy drinker and need to cut back, need an alcohol detox, or a rehab

Take the alcohol addiction test

2) When under pressure, do you drink more heavily? Yes/no

3) Can you handle more liquor now than when you first started drinking? Yes/no

4) On the ‘morning after’ have you been unable to remember part of the evening before – even though friends say that you didn’t pass out? Yes/no

5) When drinking with others, do you try to have a few extra drinks when they don’t know it? Yes/no

6) Are there certain occasions when you feel uncomfortable if alcohol is not available? Yes/no

7) When you start drinking are you in more of a hurry to get the first drink than you used to be? Yes/no

8) Do you sometimes feel a little guilty about your drinking? Yes/no

9) Are you secretly irritated when friends or family discuss your drinking? Yes/no

10) Have you experienced memory blackouts more frequently? Yes/no

11) Do you usually have a reason for occasions when you drink heavily? Yes/no

12) Do you want to drink more after friends have had enough? Yes/no

13) When sober, do you often regret things you’ve done or said while drinking? Yes/no

14) Have you tried to control your drinking by switching brands of following different plans? Yes/no

15) Have you often failed to keep promises about controlling your drinking? Yes/no

16) Have you tried to control your drinking by changing jobs or moving? Yes/no

17) Do you try to avoid family or friends while drinking? Yes/no

18) Are you having an increasing number of financial and work problems? Yes/no

19) Do more people seem to be treating you unfairly without reason? Yes/no

20) Do you eat very little or irregularly when drinking? Yes/no

21) Do you sometimes have the morning ‘shakes’ and relieve them with a drink? Yes/no

22) Are you unable to drink as much as you once did? Yes/no

23) Do you sometimes stay drunk for several days at a time? Yes/no

24) Do you ever feel very depressed and feel that life is not worth living. Yes/no

25) After drinking, do you ever see or hear things that aren’t there? Yes/no

26) Do you get terribly frightened after drinking heavily? Yes/no

Results of alcohol addiction self-test

If you answered yes to any of these alcohol addiction questions you have symptoms indicating alcoholism.

Yes to 3 or more questions in various categories indicate the following stages of alcoholism:

Questions 1 – 8 early stage

Questions 9 – 21 middle stage

Questions 22 – 26 late stage.

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