Any alcohol use can affect your health and interfere with certain medications and treatments; and negatively affect your relationships, family life, work and school. Your responses will remain confidential. Click on the option that best describes your answer to each question.
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1. How often do you have a drink containing alcohol?
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2. How many drinks containing alcohol do you have on a typical day when you are drinking?
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3. How often do you have four or more drinks on one occasion?
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4. How often during the last year have you found that you were unable to stop drinking once you started?
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5. How often during the last year have you failed to do what was normally expected of you because of drinking?
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6. How often during the last year have you needed a first drink in the morning to get yourself going after a heavy drinking session?
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7. How often during the last year have you felt guilt or remorse after drinking?
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8. How often during the last year have you been unable to remember what happened the night before because of drinking?
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9. Have you or someone else been injured as a result of your drinking?
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10. Has a friend, relative, or doctor or other health worker been concerned about your drinking or suggested you cut down?
Audit Scorecard
Based on your responses, you are at a low risk of experiencing negative health and social consequences from your use.
Based on your answers, you scored in the moderate-low risk level. If you continue to drink at this level, you are at risk of experiencing negative health and social consequences.
Based on your answers, you are drinking above the recommended drinking guidelines and scored in the moderate-high risk level.
Based on your answers, you are at high risk of dependence or are dependent on alcohol and are probably experiencing health, social, financial, legal and relationship problems as a result of your use.
By reducing your drinking, you may be able to eliminate some of the associated health risks
Men, age 21 to 65, should have no more than 4 standard drinks per day and no more than 14 in a week.
Women, and men over 65, should have no more than 3 standard drinks per day and no more than 7 within a week.
Avoid alcohol, if you:
- Are pregnant, may become pregnant, or breastfeeding.
- Are taking prescription or over-the-counter medications that can interact with alcohol.
- Have a health condition that can be made worse by alcohol.
- Will be driving or operating machinery, or doing any other activity that requires coordination.
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