Drinking in Check
Drinking in Check
A workbook for the AUDIT: log your drinking honestly for a week, spot your triggers, plan drink-free days on purpose, and find alternatives for social situations -- over four weeks.
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The AUDIT asks ten questions about your drinking over the last 12 months -- how much, how often, signs of losing control, and alcohol-related problems. It's a screening tool, not a diagnosis. This workbook turns the result into four weeks of concrete work: logging your drinking honestly first, without any pressure to act on it right away, spotting the situations that tend to trigger a drink, planning drink-free days on purpose, and finding alternatives for moments where drinking has just become automatic. It doesn't replace medical or addiction treatment, but it can help you prepare for it or support it alongside.
What's inside
- How to use this workbook -- what the AUDIT measures, how to read the thresholds, and when professional help makes sense
- Baseline: place your AUDIT score and name the areas that stand out most to you
- Drinking log: for one week, track amount, situation, and mood before and after drinking
- Spotting triggers: which time of day, which people, and which mood make you most likely to reach for a drink
- Planning drink-free days: set fixed days without alcohol on purpose, instead of treating full abstinence as the only option
- Alternatives for social situations: collect substitute actions for moments where drinking has just become automatic
- Don't go it alone: prepare a conversation with someone you trust or a counseling service
- Plan the week and look back: set small steps, review the log, retake the AUDIT
- Notes and source
Free preview: Drinking log (page 4)
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Scientific basis
- Babor, T. F., Higgins-Biddle, J. C., Saunders, J. B., & Monteiro, M. G. (2001). AUDIT: The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test -- Guidelines for Use in Primary Care (2nd ed.). World Health Organization. — The AUDIT is published by the WHO and may be freely reviewed, abstracted, reproduced, and translated for non-commercial screening use.
- Bertholet, N., Daeppen, J. B., Wietlisbach, V., Fleming, M., & Burnand, B. (2005). Reduction of alcohol consumption by brief alcohol intervention in primary care: systematic review and meta-analysis. Archives of Internal Medicine, 165(9), 986-995. — Referenced as evidence that even a single structured conversation, or a short, structured self-monitoring of one's own drinking (tracking, goal-setting, spotting triggers), can measurably change drinking behavior -- especially at an early, not-yet-dependent stage. The exercises are adapted for self-guided use and don't replace counseling or treatment.