Am I an alcoholic?

Most of us asked this for years before we answered it. Usually late at night, usually alone, usually hoping for a no.

There's no test here and no score. Nobody else can give us the answer, and this page doesn't try. What follows is a quiet check — seven things many of us recognised in ourselves — and what the Book says about deciding.

That's the whole stance of the program: only we can decide. If several of the statements below sound familiar, that's worth noticing — not as a verdict, just as information.