Am I an Alcoholic?

Yes	No	1. Do you require a drink the next morning?
Yes	No	2. Do you prefer to drink alone?
Yes	No	3. Do you lose time from work due to drinking?
Yes	No	4. Is drinking harming your family in any way?
Yes	No	5. Do you crave a drink at a definite time daily?
Yes	No	6. Do you get the inner shakes unless you continue drinking?
Yes	No	7. Has drinking made you irritable?
Yes	No	8. Does drinking make you careless of your family's?
Yes	No	9. Have you thought less of your husband or wife since drinking?
Yes	No	10. Has drinking changed your personality?
Yes	No	11. Does drinking cause you bodily complaints?
Yes	No	12. Does drinking make you restless?
Yes	No	13. Does drinking cause you to have difficulty in sleeping?
Yes	No	14. Has drinking made you more impulsive?
Yes	No	15. Have you less self control since drinking?
Yes	No	16. Has your initiative decreased since drinking?
Yes	No	17. Has your ambition decreased since drinking?
Yes	No	18. Do you lack perseverance in pursuing a goal since?
Yes	No	19. Do you drink to obtain social ease? (In shy, timid, self-conscious individuals.)
Yes	No	20. Do you drink for self-encouragement? (In persons with feelings of inferiority.)
Yes	No	21. Do you drink to relieve marked feelings of in-adequacy?
Yes	No	22. Has your sexual potency suffered since drinking?
Yes	No	23. Do you show marked dislikes and hatreds since drinking?
Yes	No	24. Has your jealousy, in general, increased since drinking?
Yes	No	25. Do you show marked moodiness as a result of drinking?
Yes	No	26. Has your efficiency decreased since drinking?
Yes	No	27. Has drinking made you more sensitive?
Yes	No	28. Are you harder to get along with since drinking?
Yes	No	29. Do you turn to an inferior environment since drinking?
Yes	No	30. Is drinking endangering your health?
Yes	No	31. Is drinking affecting your peace of mind?
Yes	No	32. Is drinking making your home life unhappy?
Yes	No	33. Is drinking jeopardizing your business - your job?
Yes	No	34. Is drinking clouding your reputation?
Yes	No	35. Is drinking disturbing the harmony of your life?
NOTE: The test questions above are not A.A. questions but are the guidelines used by Johns Hopkins University Hospital in deciding whether a patient is alcoholic or not. In addition, we in A.A. would ask even more. Here are a few:
Yes	No	36. Have you ever had a complete loss of memory (black-out) while, or after drinking?
Yes	No	37. Have you ever felt, when or after drinking, an inability to concentrate?
Yes	No	38. Have you ever felt "remorse" after drinking?
Yes	No	39. Has a physician ever treated you for drinking?
Yes	No	40. Have you ever been hospitalized for drinking?

If you have answered Yes to any one of the Test Questions, there is a definite warning that you may be an alcoholic.
If you have answered Yes to any two of the Test Questions, the chances are that you are an alcoholic.
If you answer Yes to three or more of the Test Questions, you are definitely an alcoholic.

Why do we say this? Because thousands of people in A.A. have said so for many years. They found out the truth about themselves, the hard way.

But, only you can decide whether you think A.A. is for you. Try to keep an open mind on the subject. If the answer is YES, we will be glad to show you how we stopped drinking ourselves. Just call.

A.A. does not promise to solve your life's problems. But we can show you how we are learning to live without drinking "one day at a time." We stay away from that "first drink." If there is no first one, there cannot be a tenth one. And when we got rid of alcohol, we found that life became much more manageable.

Again, no one in A.A. will attempt to tell whether another person is an alcoholic. This you must decide by your-self and for yourself.

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