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What are the Warning Signs of Alcoholism?

1.  Do you occasionally drink heavily after a disappointment, a quarrel, or when the boss gives you a hard time?

2.  When you  have trouble or feel under pressure, do you always drink more heavily than usual?

3.  Have you noticed that you are able to handle more liquor than you did when you were first drinking?

4.  Did you ever wake up the "morning after" and discover that you could not remember part of the evening before, even though your friends tell you that you did not "pass out"?

5.  When drinking with other people, do you try to have a few extra drinks when the others will now know it?

6.   Are there certain occasions when you feel uncomfortable if alcohol is not available?

7.  Have you recently noticed that when you begin drinking you are in more of a hurry to get the first drink than you used to be?

8.  Do you sometimes feel a little guilty about your drinking?

9.  Are you secretly irritated when your family and friends discuss your drinking?

10.  Have you recently noticed an increase in the frequency of your memory blackouts?

11.  Do you often find that you wish to continue drinking after your friends say they have had enough?

12.  Do you usually have a reason for the occasions when you drink heavily?

13.  When you are sober, do you often regret things that you have done or said while drinking?

14.  Have you tried switching brands or following different plans for controlling your drinking?

15.  Have you often failed to keep promises you have made to yourself about controlling or cutting down on your drinking?

16.  Have you tried to control your drinking by making a change in jobs or moving to a new location?

17. Do you try to avoid family or close friends while you are drinking?

18. Are you having an increasing number of financial and work problems?

19.  Do more people seem to be treating you unfairly without good reason? 

20. Do you eat very little or irregularly when you are drinking?

21.  Do you sometimes have the "shakes" in the morning and find that it helps to have a little drink?

22.  Have you recently noticed that you cannot drink as much as you once did?

23.  Do you sometimes stay drunk for several days at a time?

24.  Do you sometimes feel very depressed and wonder whether life is worth living?

25.  Sometimes after periods of drinking, do you see or hear things that aren't even there?

26.  Do you get terribly frightened after you have been drinking heavily?

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If you answered "YES" to any of the questions,
you may have some of the symptoms that may indicate alcoholism.

"YES" answers to several of the questions
indicate the following stages of alcoholism:

Questions #1-8  -  early stage
Questions # 9-21  -  middle stage
Questions #22 - 26  -  the beginning of the final stage

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