Check Your Drinking 2.0
I recently read an article about this online tool to check your drinking behavior. It was created by a Canadian addiction researcher and it seems like a pretty decent tool. It allows you to check off if you are just using it to research, so you don’t skew results. Once you answer all the questions it show you a few things – how your drinking compares to other people similar to you (age/gender), and if your score indicates a need for treatment. Sometimes alcoholics need some sort of independent confirmation that they have a problem – this test certainly gives that. It’s also kind of brutal to answer the questions if you have to check off “yes” for many of them. It could certainly serve as a wake-up call for anyone not sure about their drinking behavior.
You might have to go back down memory lane if it’s been a while since you drank, but frankly, it’s also a reminder of what your drinking was like, especially if you ever start thinking, “Oh, I wasn’t really that bad.”
