Answering these twenty questions will help you decide whether you should seek help for drug abuse.
The evaluation confidential and anonymous; your results are not recorded; and are available only to you. You will not be asked for any personal ID information.
This quiz was adapted from the Vanderbilt University Addiction Center. After answering all the questions, you will receive a score which is a guide to the advisability of seeking treatment.
When answering the questions, use the last 12 months as a frame of reference. In the quiz, “drug abuse” refers to the use of prescribed or “over the counter” drugs in excess of the directions, the use of any illegal drugs or any non-medical use of drugs.
Note: This quiz does not include drug use.
Answering these twenty questions will give you an idea if your drinking patterns are safe, risky or harmful.
The evaluation is confidential and anonymous; your results are not recorded; and are available only to you. You will not be asked for any personal ID information.
This quiz was developed by the Office of Health Care Programs, Johns Hopkins University Hospital. If you consume alcoholic beverages, this quiz can give you an idea how your drinking may fall into harmful patterns and indicate whether or not you have a drinking problem.
When answering the questions, use the last 12 months as a frame of reference.
Note: This quiz does not include alcohol use.
This simple 4-question self-test may help you become aware of your use or abuse of alcohol. This test specifically focuses on alcohol use, and not on the use of other drugs. A separate test called ‘DAST’ focuses on non-alcohol drugs. Please read our disclaimer on psychological testing and our psychological testing privacy guarantee.
Completing this Psychological Screening Test
To take the questionnaire, please click the radio button next to the selection which best reflects how each statement applies to you. The questions refer to your feelings and behavior over your whole life. Carefully read each statement and decide whether your answer is yes or no. Please give the best answer or the answer that is right most of the time.
Please check the one response to each item that best describes how you have felt and behaved over your whole life.
The TWEAK alcohol screening test is a short, five-question test which was originally designed to screen pregnant women for harmful drinking habits. Researchers at the Research Institute on Addictions at Buffalo, New York, Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Wayne State University developed the TWEAK as a short test more sensitive to detecting alcohol problems in pregnant women.
Note: Any level of drinking during pregnancy can be harmful.
Their follow-up research revealed that the TWEAK test was more effective than the T-ACE test in diagnosing harmful drinking in women.
TWEAK has also been used to screen for harmful drinking in the general population, outpatients, hospital patients, and in emergency room settings.
The test is made up of three questions which appear on the CAGE test, plus two additional questions — one about the person’s tolerance to alcohol and another about blackouts.
The name of the test is an acronym for Tolerance, Worried, Eye-opener, Amnesia, and K/Cut down (with a poetic license use of “K” instead of “C” for cutting down on alcohol consumption).
The FAST alcohol screening test was developed specifically to be used in busy medical offices and emergency rooms to screen patients for hazardous drinking, although it has also been used effectively in the general population.
The AUDIT test, a longer screening test, has been an extremely effective screening tool for many years. But, it takes too long to administer and score in most busy physician offices and emergency rooms. The FAST test was developed by taking four key questions from the AUDIT test and arranging them into a short, two-phase test.
When compared to the full AUDIT test, the FAST test detects 93 percent of hazardous drinkers detected by the longer version.
Shortest Test Available
Unlike the CAGE test, the FAST test measures a person’s hazardous drinking in the past year. The CAGE test is designed to test alcohol dependency over a lifetime.
More than half of patients given the FAST test only have to answer the first question. Depending on the response to the first question of the test, the other questions may not be asked at all, making the FAST test potentially the shortest screening tool available today.
This 20-question self-test may help you become aware of your use or abuse of drugs. This test specifically does not include alcohol use. Separate tests called ‘CAGE’ and ‘MAST’ focus on alcohol use. Please read our disclaimer on psychological testing and our psychological testing privacy guarantee.
Completing this Psychological Screening Test
To take the questionnaire, please click the radio button next to the selection which best reflects how each statement applies to you. The questions refer to the past 12 months. Carefully read each statement and decide whether your answer is yes or no. Please give the best answer or the answer that is right most of the time.
For the purposes of this screening test, drug abuse refers to:
- The use of prescribed or “over the counter” drugs in excess of the directions, and
- Any non-medical use of drugs
Remember, for the purposes of this screening test, the questions do not refer to alcoholic beverages. The DAST does not include alcohol use. Separate tests called ‘CAGE’ and ‘MAST’ focus on alcohol use.
Please check the one response to each item that best describes how you have felt over the past 12 months.
This 22-question self-test may help you become aware of your use or abuse of alcohol. This test specifically focuses on alcohol use, and not on the use of other drugs. A separate test called ‘DAST’ focuses on non-alcohol drugs.
Please read our disclaimer on psychological testing and our psychological testing privacy guarantee.
Completing this Psychological Screening Test
To take the questionnaire, please click the radio button next to the selection which best reflects how each statement applies to you. The questions refer to the past 12 months. Carefully read each statement and decide whether your answer is yes or no. Please give the best answer or the answer that is right most of the time.
The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) was developed by the World Health Organization in 1982 as a simple way to screen and identify people who are at risk of developing alcohol problems.
The AUDIT test focuses on identifying the preliminary signs of hazardous drinking and mild dependence. It is used to detect alcohol problems experienced within the last year. It is one of the most accurate alcohol screening tests available, rated 92 percent effective in detecting hazardous or harmful drinking.
Unlike some alcohol screening tests, the AUDIT has proven to be accurate across all ethnic and gender groups.
The test contains 10 multiple choice questions on quantity and frequency of alcohol consumption, drinking behavior and alcohol-related problems or reactions. The answers are scored on a point system; a score of more than eight indicates an alcohol problem.
Please select the answer that most closely approximates the person being assessed. To correctly answer some of these questions you need to know the definition of a drink. For this test one drink is: One can of beer (12 oz or approximately 330 ml of 5% alcohol), or One glass of wine (5 oz or approximately 140 ml of 12% alcohol), or One shot of liquor (1.5 oz or approximately 40 ml of 40% alcohol).
