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1.	Do you feel you are a normal drinker?	Yes No
2.	Have you ever awakened the morning after some drinking the night before and found that you could not remember part of the evening before?	Yes No
3.	Does your spouse or your parents ever worry or complain about your drinking?	Yes No
4.	Can you stop drinking without a struggle after one or two drinks?	Yes No
5.	Do you ever feel bad about your drinking?	Yes No
6.	Do your friends or relatives think that you are a normal drinker?	Yes No
7.	Are you always able to stop drinking when you want to?	Yes No
8.	Have you ever attended a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous?	Yes No
9.	Have you gotten into fights while drinking?	Yes No
10.	Has drinking ever created problems with you and your spouse?	Yes No
11.	Has your spouse or other family member ever gone to anyone for help about your drinking?	Yes No
12.	Have you ever lost friends or girlfriends/boyfriends because of your drinking?	Yes No
13.	Have you ever gotten into trouble at work because of drinking?	Yes No
14.	Have you ever lost a job because of drinking?	Yes No
15.	Have you neglected your obligations, your family or your work for 2 or more days in a row because of drinking?	Yes No
16.	Do you ever drink before noon?	Yes No
17.	Have you ever been told you have liver trouble or cirrhosis?	Yes No
18.	Have you ever had Delirium Tremens (DT's), severe shakes, heard voices, or seen things that weren't there after heavy drinking?	Yes No
19.	Have you ever gone to anyone for help about your drinking?	Yes No
20.	Have you ever been in a hospital because of your drinking?	Yes No
21.	Have you ever been a patient in a psychiatric hospital or on a psychiatric ward of a general hospital where drinking was part of the problem?	Yes No
22.	Have you ever been seen at a psychiatric or mental health clinic or gone to a doctor, social worker, or clergy for help with an emotional problem in which drinking had played a part?	Yes No
23.	Have you ever been arrested, even for a few hours, because of drunken behavior?	Yes No
24.	Have you ever been arrested for drunk driving or driving after drinking?	Yes No

This test is the official Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test for adults and adolescents. Selzer ML: "The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test: the quest for a new diagnostic instrument" Am J Psychiatry 127(12):1653-1658, 1971.

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