Saturday 28 August 2010

Are you are a problem drinker?

Find out if you are a problem drinker or have hazardous levels of consumption.

Here's a survey (reposted from KiwiBlog) to complete, 'sponsored' by Cairns' own iPhone DrinkerTracker app developer.

Post your score in comments (copy and paste) and later on, I will post what different scores mean according to the World Health Organisation.

1. How often do you have a drink containing alcohol?
(0) Never [Skip to Qs 9-10]
(1) Monthly or less
(2) 2 to 4 times a month
(3) 2 to 3 times a week
(4) 4 or more times a week

2. How many drinks containing alcohol do you have on a typical day when you are drinking?
(0) 1 or 2
(1) 3 or 4
(2) 5 or 6
(3) 7, 8, or 9
(4) 10 or more

3. How often do you have six or more drinks on one occasion?
(0) Never
(1) Less than monthly
(2) Monthly
(3) Weekly
(4) Daily or almost daily

4. How often during the last year have you found that you were not able to stop drinking once you had started?
(0) Never
(1) Less than monthly
(2) Monthly
(3) Weekly
(4) Daily or almost daily

5. How often during the last year have you failed to do what was normally expected from you because of drinking?
(0) Never
(1) Less than monthly
(2) Monthly
(3) Weekly
(4) Daily or almost daily

6. How often during the last year have you needed a first drink in the morning to get yourself going after a heavy drinking session?
(0) Never
(1) Less than monthly
(2) Monthly
(3) Weekly
(4) Daily or almost daily

7. How often during the last year have you had a feeling of guilt or remorse after drinking?
(0) Never
(1) Less than monthly
(2) Monthly
(3) Weekly
(4) Daily or almost daily

8. How often during the last year have you been unable to remember what happened the night before because you had been drinking?
(0) Never
(1) Less than monthly
(2) Monthly
(3) Weekly
(4) Daily or almost daily

9. Have you or someone else been injured as a result of your drinking?
(0) No
(2) Yes, but not in the last year
(4) Yes, during the last year

10. Has a relative or friend or a doctor or another health worker been concerned about your drinking or suggested you cut down?
(0) No
(2) Yes, but not in the last year
(4) Yes, during the last year

4 comments:

Nort. Beaches Lawyer said...

Let's face it, a huge percentage of Aussie population are drunks. The drink driving by so many is a travesty. Until the judges start jailing even first-time offenders, there's no hope for the problem.

Cape Resident said...

The relatively small number of drinkers who cause problems are not punished adequately by the courts, so the police don't bother.

It is much easier to impose draconian authoritarian restrictions on those segments of the community that are percieved to have a problem - like indigenous communities in the outback.

So our local pub is not allowed to sell regular beer as takeaways (1 ctn midstrength only), or any cask wine at all - we can only buy 750ml cleanskins ($6-$8 in Cairns) for $18.50! Or drive 3 hours to Cooktown for your cask of red, but they can't sell it to me till 6pm, so I have to drive home on bush roads in the dark.

Amazingly, you can still takeaway Rum & Cola cans or cider, both full strength, so that is what the few drunken troublemakers do - so the restrictions that so unfairly inconvenience normal, responsible country people who just want a glass of wine or 3 after dinner, have no effect on the behavior of violent alcoholics.

J O'B and other Labor members seem to have no idea of the depth of resentment, the deep and abiding hatred, that this single issue alone is causing - then again, I have yet to hear from the LNP that they would do anything different.

It seems that imposing harsh restrictions on bush people is okay by both major parties, restrictions that all you townspeople would never tolerate - but then there are only a few of us, the votes are in suburbia.

Meanwhile, bars are open in Cairns till 5am, and vicious violent drunks are staggering around the streets attacking each other and anyone else they feel like.

relieved said...

Umm... I have often had a feeling of guilt or remorse after drinking - and for more than one year. But I rated low to very low on most of the other indicators.

My drinking levels don't even make the lowest thresholds. So is this trick survey, MM? Or perhaps it's just designed with Kiwi's drinking habits in mind.

Indica Man said...

My answers:
1: 4
2: 1
3: 1
4: 0
5: 0
6: 0
7: 0
8: 0
9: 2
10:0