Drinking audit

Take the 5 minute drinking audit

Are your drinking habits putting you at risk?

Risk Assessment Tool

Assess your current level of drinking by completing this short risk assessment.

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This audit is a validated risk assessment tool that will help you to determine whether your current drinking patterns are putting you at risk of experiencing harm from your drinking.

On completion of the questionnaire, you will be provided with personalised feedback. Your answers and feedback are private and confidential, and are not stored by this website upon completion.

As part of the feedback, you will be provided with information and support options that may assist you to take steps towards reducing or stopping drinking.

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Thomas F. Babor, John C. Higgins-Biddle, John B. Saunders, and Maristela G. Monteiro (2001) AUDIT: The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test Guidelines for Use in Primary Care. Second Edition.
Assess if your drinking habits are putting you at risk.

There are 10 questions in this assessment which will take 2-3 minutes to complete. Please answer each and every question (all questions require an answer) as honestly as possible.

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How often do you have a drink containing alcohol?




2
How many drinks containing alcohol do you have on a typical day when you are drinking?




3
How often do you have six or more standard drinks on one occasion?




4
How often during the last year have you found that you were not able to stop drinking once you had started?




5
How often during the last year have you failed to do what was normally expected of you because of drinking?




6
How often during the last year have you needed a drink first thing in the morning to get yourself going after a heavy drinking session?




7
How often during the last year have you had a feeling of guilt or remorse after drinking?




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How often during the last year have you been unable to remember what happened the night before because of your drinking?




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Have you or someone else been injured because of your drinking?


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Has a relative, friend, doctor or other healthcare worker been concerned about your drinking or suggested you cut down?


Email Results

Please provide your email address below, and we will send you a copy of your results and recommendations based on your score.


Please note: We do not save your results or email address.

Page last updated7 August 2023