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Check your drinking

This is AUDIT, the World Health Organization's ten-question alcohol screening test. It takes two minutes, it scores itself, and nothing you type leaves this page.

Work out your units

Optional, and it takes a minute. AUDIT asks question two in units, so this fills that one in for you.

Work out your week

Put in what you drink in a normal week, not a good week.

Count in
Drinks in a normal week
Bottle of lager or stout 600ml at 5% · 3 units
Can of beer 330ml at 5% · 1.7 units
Glass of wine 175ml at 13% · 2.3 units
Shot of spirits 35ml at 40% · 1.4 units
Small bottle of herbal bitters 200ml at 40% · 8 units
Bottle of spirits 750ml at 40% · 30 units

0 units a week

0 units a day

Next, the AUDIT questionnaire.

Home measures are the usual reason this comes out low. Measure your own glass once, with water, so you know what it holds.

Answer the ten questions

1How often do you have a drink containing alcohol?
2How many units do you drink on a typical day when you are drinking?
3How often do you have six or more units on one occasion?
4How often in the last year have you found you could not stop once you started?
5How often in the last year have you failed to do what was expected of you because of drinking?
6How often in the last year have you needed a drink in the morning to get going?
7How often in the last year have you felt guilt or regret after drinking?
8How often in the last year have you been unable to remember the night before?
9Have you or anyone else been injured because of your drinking?
10Has a relative, friend or health worker been worried about your drinking, or asked you to cut down?

Score 0 out of 40 · answer all ten

AUDIT is from Babor, T. F., Higgins-Biddle, J. C., Saunders, J. B., & Monteiro, M. G. (2001). AUDIT: The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. World Health Organization. Questions two and three are asked in UK units rather than US drinks.