The MAST Questionnaire

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The MAST Questionnaire @ http://silkworth.net/ Bill W. One of AA's cofounders		The MAST (Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test) is a questionnaire comprising of 25 questions about various aspects of alcohol consumption. With each question one answers by yes or no. The total score makes it possible to evaluate the absence or the existence of excessive alcohol consumption and its possible social, physical or psychological repercussions... Please select the answer that is correct for you and then click on the "Score Survey" button below to see a self-assessment based on your answers. Source Reference Selzer, M.L. The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test: The quest for a new diagnostic instrument. Am J Psychiatry 127:1653-1658, 1971.

Please read::.. This survey is provided as an educational tool. No claims are made to the validity of the results, nor should this be a substitute for professional medical advice. This is a published survey that has been converted into digital form and is self-scoring. Fill out this survey and it will help you evaluate your drinking patterns. As soon as you finish answering these 25 questions hit the "score survey" button and this survey will assess whether you may have a problem with alcohol based on your answers to the questions below. The self-assessment scoring is done by javascript and thus your answers are stored and scored only within your own computer's memory. No records of individual responses are seen by our servers, and there will be no attempt to identify any visitor to this page.

Points	Question#	Questions	Yes / No

(2)	* 1	Do you feel you are a normal drinker?	Yes No

(2)	2	Have you ever awakened the morning after a night of drinking and found that you could not remember a part of the prior evening?	Yes No

(1)	3	Does your wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, and/or parents ever worry or complain about your drinking?	Yes No

(2)	* 4	Can you stop drinking without a struggle after one or two drinks?	Yes No

(1)	5	Do you ever feel guilty about your drinking?	Yes No

(2)	6	Do your friends or relatives think you are a normal drinker?	Yes No

	7	Do you ever try to limit your drinking to certain times of the day or to certain places?	Yes No

(2)	* 8	Are you always able to stop drinking when you want to?	Yes No

(5)	9	Have you ever attended an organized meeting of former drinkers ( like Alcoholics Anonymous )?	Yes No

(1)	10	Have you gotten into fights when drinking?	Yes No

(2)	11	Has drinking ever created problems with you and your wife, husband, girlfriend or boyfriend?	Yes No

(2)	12	Has your wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, or other family member ever gone to anyone for help about your drinking?	Yes No

(2)	13	Have you ever lost friends because of your drinking?	Yes No

(2)	14	Have you ever gotten into trouble at work because of drinking?	Yes No

(2)	15	Have you ever lost a job because of drinking?	Yes No

(2)	16	Have you ever neglected your obligations, your family, or your work for two or more days in a row because you were drinking?	Yes No

(1)	17	Do you drink before noon fairly often?	Yes No

(2)	18	Have you ever been told you have liver trouble? Cirrhosis?	Yes No

(5)	19	Have you ever had delirium tremens (DTs), severe shaking, heard voices, or seen things that were not there after heavy drinking?	Yes No

(5)	20	Have you ever gone to anyone for help about your drinking?	Yes No

(5)	21	Have you ever been in a hospital because of drinking?	Yes No

(2)	22	Have you ever been seen at a psychiatric hospital or on a psychiatric ward of a general hospital where drinking was part of the problem?	Yes No

(5)	23	Have you ever been seen at a psychiatric or mental health clinic, or gone to any doctor, social worker, or clergyman for help with an emotional problem related to drinking?	Yes No

2 (for each arrest)	24	Have you ever been arrested for drunk driving, driving while intoxicated, or driving under the influence of alcoholic beverages?	Yes No once twice three times more

(2)	25	Have you ever been arrested, or taken into custody, even for a few hours, because of other drunk behavior?	Yes No

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