| Perhaps you have reached a point in your life at | | | | set of questions that are designed to determine |
| which you are worried about your drinking. The | | | | whether a problem with drinking exists, whether a |
| reality is that if you have found yourself | | | | person might be afflicted with the disease of |
| concerned about your drinking, you probably at | | | | alcoholism. Typical alcoholism test questions are: |
| least have a drinking problem and you may be an | | | | * Have you not gone to work after or because |
| alcoholic. The mere fact that you are questioning | | | | of drinking? |
| your drinking habits in and of itself generally is a | | | | * Have you avoided friends and family because of |
| solid alcoholism test, a sufficient basis for you to | | | | your drinking? |
| seek some sort of appropriate assistance in | | | | The standard alcoholism test has a series of |
| regard to your drinking (or in regard to your | | | | twelve to twenty such questions of this nature. |
| potential alcoholism) before the situation becomes | | | | The fact is that most experts agree that when a |
| even worse. | | | | person answers "yes" to even one question in |
| Beyond what might best be called the "concerned | | | | such an alcoholism test, that person likely does |
| alcoholism test," there are in fact solid alcoholism | | | | have a drinking problem and very well may be |
| test options that can assist you in making a more | | | | afflicted with the disease of alcoholism. |
| thorough inventory to determine if you might | | | | As was noted previously, no alcoholism test is |
| indeed have an alcohol problem or to find out if | | | | foolproof; no alcoholism test is an absolute |
| you are an alcoholic. Of course, no alcoholism test | | | | indicator of the presence of alcoholism or a |
| is 100% accurate. Nonetheless, an alcoholism test | | | | drinking problem. Nonetheless, depending on the |
| can provide a basic guide as to whether you have | | | | results of a alcoholism test, an individual should |
| an alcohol problem or whether you might be an | | | | consider seriously obtaining a consultation with an |
| alcoholic. | | | | alcohol treatment specialist sooner rather than |
| Generally speaking, an alcoholism test includes a | | | | later. |