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Complete the questionnaire below to help you evaluate whether you should seek treatment. After you have answered all the questions, the questionnaire will automatically be scored. Check the ranges of the scores as a guide to the advisability of seeking treatment.

Michigan Alcoholism Screen Test (MAST)

Carefully read each statement and decide whether your answer is yes or no. Please give the best answer or the answer that is right most of the time. Click on the box for Yes or No.

1. Do you feel you are a normal drinker?
(By normal we mean you drink less than or as much as most other people.)		 Yes No
2. Have you ever awakened the morning after some drinking the night before and found that you could not remember a part of the evening? Yes No
3. Does your wife, husband, a parent, or other near relative 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 guilty about your drinking? Yes No
6. Do friends or relatives think you are a normal drinker? Yes No
7. Are you 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 ever gotten into physical fights when drinking? Yes No
10. Has drinking ever created problems between you and your wife, husband, a parent, or other near relative?. Yes No
11. Has your wife, husband, a parent, or other near relative ever gone to anyone for help about your drinking? Yes No
12. Have you ever lost friends because of your drinking? Yes No
13. Have you ever been in trouble at work because of your drinking? Yes No
14. Have you ever lost a job because of drinking? Yes No
15. Have you ever neglected your obligations, your family, or work for two or more days in a row because you were drinking? Yes No
16. Do you drink before noon fairly often? Yes No
17. Have you ever been told you have liver trouble? (Cirrhosis)? Yes No

18. After heavy drinking have you ever had delirium tremens (DTs) or severe shaking or heard or seen things that weren't really there?

 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 ward of a general hospital where drinking was part of the problem that resulted in hospitalization? Yes No
22. Have you ever been seen at a psychiatric or mental health clinic or gone to any doctor, social worker, or clergyman for help with any emotional problem, where drinking was part of the problem? Yes No
23. Have you ever been arrested for drunken driving under the influence of alcoholic beverages? Yes No
24. Have you ever been arrested, even for a few hours, because of other drunken behavior? Yes No