To help you decide whether you might have a problem with your own drinking, we suggest considering these 12 questions.
Answer yes or no to the following questions:
- Have you ever decided to stop drinking for a week or so, but only lasted for a couple of days?
- Do you wish people would mind their own business about your drinking – stop telling you what to do?
- Have you ever switched from one kind of drink to another in the hope that this would keep you from getting drunk?
- Have you had to have a drink in the morning during the past year?
- Do you envy people who can drink without getting into trouble?
- Have you had problems connected with drinking during the past year?
- Has your drinking caused trouble at home?
- Do you ever try to get ‘extra’ drinks at a party because you do not get enough?
- Do you tell yourself you can stop drinking any time you want to, even though you keep getting drunk when you don’t mean to?
- Have you missed days off school/college/work because of drinking?
- Do you have blackouts?
- Have you ever felt that your life would be better if you did not drink?
Did you answer YES four times or more? If so, you are probably in trouble with alcohol. Why do we say this? Because thousands of people in AA have said so for many years. They found out the truth about themselves – the hard way.
If the answer is YES, we are here to show you how we stopped drinking ourselves. Just call us.
Only you can decide whether you think AA is for you. Try to keep an open mind.
In AA, you will meet many who suffer from the same feelings of guilt, loneliness, and hopelessness – all symptoms of alcoholism.
By joining AA, you have decided to face up to what alcohol has done to you and join the thousands of people in AA who have put their drinking problem behind them.
We can show you how we are learning to live without alcohol one day at a time. We stay away from that first drink. If there is no first one, there cannot be a tenth one. When we got rid of alcohol, we found that life became better.
You are in safe hands. Contact us free in complete confidence.