Self-assessment
Alcohol use self-assessment
Reflect on patterns and concerns you may want to discuss with a professional.
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- Use your observations to prepare a conversation about support.
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Symptoms are understood in context, including overlap and co-occurring needs.
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- 03Patterns
- 04Needs
Understand your starting point
A few practical ways to begin.
These resources can help you gather observations about alcohol and prepare a conversation about support.
Calculator
Understand what you drink.
Convert drink size and strength into alcohol units or clearly labelled standard drinks.
Use the alcohol units calculatorCalculator
See what your spending adds up to.
Review weekly, monthly and annual alcohol spending, using the figures you enter.
Calculate alcohol spendingPlanner
Prepare a conversation.
Put your concerns, boundaries and offer of support into a thoughtful family conversation outline.
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Alcohol Units & Standard Drinks Calculator
Calculate UK alcohol units, US and Australian standard drinks from drink size, strength and servings. Add weekly totals and download your calculation privately.
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Family conversation planner
Prepare a calm conversation about alcohol, with room to listen and a clear offer of support.
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Alcohol spending calculator
See what your alcohol spending adds up to, and explore a change in spending at your own pace.
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Alcohol use self-assessment
Alcohol problems can involve impaired control, harmful consequences and dependence.
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Can You Get Alcohol Out of Your System Faster?
Why coffee, water and other shortcuts do not make you sober, with practical safety advice and signs that need urgent medical help.
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Alcohol Detox and Withdrawal: Symptoms, Risks and Medical Support
Why alcohol withdrawal needs an individual risk assessment, which symptoms require urgent help, and how medically supported withdrawal connects with longer-term treatment.
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How to Sober Up Fast
There is no quick way to sober up: only time lowers blood alcohol concentration. Coffee, cold showers, exercise, vomiting, supplements and extra water do…
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How to Stop Binge Drinking
Binge drinking refers to a dangerous pattern of consuming large quantities of an alcoholic beverage over a short time. It has recently emerged as…
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Wernicke–Korsakoff Syndrome: Symptoms, Causes and Diagnosis
Understand Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome, thiamine deficiency, warning signs, clinical assessment and the meaning of persistent memory problems.
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Drunk and Disorderly
A person who is ‘Drunk and Disorderly’, is described, precisely, as a person who, when under the influence of alcohol, behaves in a disorderly…
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Functioning Alcoholic
When dealing with a functioning alcoholic, one must be very careful and avoid making any hasty decisions or judgments.
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Alcoholic Seizures
When it comes to alcoholic seizures, prevention is key. If you're concerned about the risk of experiencing seizures due to alcohol consumption
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