1. Do you drink alone?

2. Do you feel obsessed by the desire to drink at certain times of day?

3. Would you like a drink in the morning?

4. Have you suffered amnesia because of drinking?

5. Have you had financial difficulties because of drinking?

6. Commits “drink to your position or business?

7. Is it the drink because of absence from his job?

8. Do you drink to reaffirm its confidence in itself?

9. Do you drink to forget worries or trouble?

10. Receive your family you’re drinking?

11. “Make disgrace to his family whether to drink?

If you answered YES:

1 question: you may be alcoholic

2 questions: there is a substantial likelihood that you are an alcoholic

3 or more questions you undoubtedly a sick alcoholic

To consider that someone is addicted to a substance must meet at least 3 of the 9 criteria listed below:

1. Use of the substance in greater amounts or longer than the subject intended.
2. Persistent desire or efforts to suppress or control consumption.
3. It employs a lot of time getting or using the substance.
4. Poison frequent or withdrawal symptoms in those moments when the subject has to perform its obligations (work, studies, housework, etc…) Or the subject consumes risking physically (driving while intoxicated, etc.)
5. Reduction or abandonment of social, occupational or recreational activities for the consumption of the substance.
6. Use of the substance despite the social, psychological or physical caused or aggravated by the substance.
7. Tolerance.
8. Characteristic withdrawal symptoms.
9. Often consumed the substance to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms.