You don’t have to wash down your morning cereal with a vodka on the rocks to be an alcoholic. If you can say yes to one or more of the statements below, you may need to seek help*.
You’ve never had sober sex
Yes/NoYou’ve missed work because you were too hungover to get out of bed
Yes/NoYou keep drinking even after you feel drunk
Yes/NoThe number of drinks you usually consume no longer gives you a buzz
Yes/NoYou act out of character and engage in risky, confrontational or self-sabotaging behaviour when you drink
Yes/NoYou hoard booze at a party because you’re afraid you won’t get enough
Yes/NoControl your drinking
Want to cut down on your drinking, but not quite ready for AA?Head to the Australian Centre for Addiction Research and enrol in their Control Your Drinking Online Program.
This totally anonymous program can help you reduce your drinking by learning skills to control it.
Sixty per cent of people on the program are women and the average age is mid-30s. The site also offers other alcohol and addiction-related information and resources.
RELATED: For the real deal on drinking and how you body reacts to booze, read What drinking does to your body.
*Sources: Dr Johanna O’Flaherty, vice-president of treatment services for the betty Ford Centre; Dr Henry Kranzler, associate scientific director of the Alcohol Research Centre at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
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B Asians have a lower standard of living and their education system is baed on imitation. Just because you can''t cope with alcohol doesn't mean you are smart. A little more complicated than that but I'm sure you'll work it our eventually :)
ReplyAlcohol brings out the 'true you'. Regardless of what country you come from or where you live, the problem is YOU, the skin you live in. Who are you when you have a few? Happy, Loving, Cheerful, a Joy to be with....OR are you the Ugly Drinker? Violent, Agressive, Annoying, Demeaning, Demanding, Embarassing? It is time to have 'that conversation' with our friend and tell them the ugly 'truth' about how they behaved the night before. And tell them that their drunkeness will NEVER be tolerated. Good friends will let their mates know, when they have seen their Ugly side.....difficult conversation? Yes.....but necessary. It is never ok, to be an Ugly Drinker ......NEVER...EVER......EVER
ReplyI don't have a drinking problem. I drink, I get drunk, I fall down - no problem!
1 ReplyAA is for Quiters ;)
ReplyAussies are not a real smart ; The Asians with all the culture and drive to work and learn are way ahead of the DUMB LOT from down Under.
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