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Support to those in recovery
from alcoholism
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Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Assessments, adolescent
alcohol and drug abuse
services and aftercare.
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binge drinking?
Check out
www.HadEnough.org
Licensed for alcohol, drug
abuse, and mental health
outpatient care
920-451-5548
FactsonTap.org
Services
Alcohol and other
drug abuse.
920-457-7802
The basics on how all the drugs you've
heard about since you were a kid affect you.
Local Support Groups
Support for those with
any addiction.
1-800-240-0276
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Here are a few sobering statistics on how drinking too much, too often can put a serious damper on your dreams of
achieving academic glory -- or even your dreams of just graduating:
According to the Core Institute, an organization that surveys college drinking practices, 300,000 of today's college students
will eventually die of alcohol-related causes such as drunk driving accidents, cirrhosis of the liver, various cancers and
heart disease. 159,000 of today's first- year college students will drop out of school next year for alcohol- or other
drug-related reasons.
The average student spends about $900 on alcohol each year. Do you want to know how much cash the average student
drops on his or her books? About $450.
Almost one-third of college students admit to having missed at least one class because of their alcohol or drug use, and
nearly one-quarter of students report bombing a test or project because of the aftereffects of drinking or doing drugs.
One night of heavy drinking can impair your ability to think abstractly for up to 30 days, limiting your ability to relate textbook
reading to what your professor says, or to think through a football play.
Source: http://www.factsontap.org/factsontap/alcohol_and_student_life/index.htm
Below is a set of questions designed to help you find out if alcohol use may be a problem:
Do you prefer to drink alone rather than with others?
Does your drinking cause problems with school (e.g., falling grades)
or at work (e.g. being late)?
Do you drink to escape your problems?
When you drink, do you get very emotional?
Do you ever have memory loss or blackouts due to drinking?
When you drink, do you often get drunk even when you did not mean
to drink to excess?
Do you find that you have to drink more and more to get the same effect?
Do you get into trouble with the law or injure yourself when you drink?
If you answered "yes" to one or more of these questions, you may have a drinking
problem. If you have a drinking problem, or suspect that you have one, there are many
others out there like you. As a matter of fact, more than 10 million people suffer from
alcoholism.
Source: http://appserv.pace.edu/execute/page.cfm?doc_id=5117
1. Do you occasionally drink heavily after a disappointment, a quarrel or when your boss
gives you a hard time?
2. When you have trouble or feel under pressure, do you always drink more heavily than
usual?
3. Have you noticed that you are able to handle more liquor than you did when you were
first drinking?
4 .Did you ever wake up the morning after drinking and discover that you could not
remember part of the evening before, even though your friends tell you that you did not
pass out?
5 .When drinking with other people, do you try to have a few extra drinks when others will
not know it?
6. Are there certain occasions when you feel uncomfortable if alcohol is not available?
7. Have you recently noticed that when you begin drinking you are in more of a hurry to get
the first drink than you used to be?
8. Do you sometimes feel a little guilty about your drinking?
9. Are you secretly irritated when your family or friends discuss your drinking?
10. Have you recently noticed an increase in the frequency of your memory blackouts?
11. Do you often find that you wish to continue drinking after your friends say they have had
enough?
12. Do you usually have a reason for the occasions when you drink heavily?
13. When you are sober, do you often regret things you have done or said while drinking?
14. Have you tried switching brands or following different plans for controlling your
drinking?
15. Have you often failed to keep the promises you have made to yourself about controlling
or cutting down on your drinking?
16. Have you ever tried to control your drinking by making a change in jobs, or by moving to
a new location?
17. Do you try to avoid family or close friends while you are drinking?
18. Are you having an increasing number of financial and work problems?
19. Do more people seem to be treating you unfairly without good reason?
20. Do you eat very little or irregularly when you are drinking?
21. Do you sometimes have the "shakes" in the morning and find that it helps to have a
little drink?
22. Have you recently noticed that you cannot drink as much as you once did?
23. Do you sometimes stay drunk for several days at a time?
24. Do you sometimes feel very depressed and wonder whether life is worth living?
25. Sometimes after periods of drinking, do you see or hear things that aren't there?
26. Do you get terribly frightened after you have been drinking heavily?
Questionaire Scoring Key
If you answer "yes" to any of the questions you could have possible symptoms of
alcoholism. "Yes" answers to several questions indicate the following stages of
alcoholism:
Early Stage: "yes" answers to questions one to eight
Middle Stage: "yes" answers to questions nine to twenty-one
Beginning of Final Stage: "yes" answers to questions twenty-two to twenty-six
Source: Stanford University, http://ccvillage.buffalo.edu/vpc.html
