Drinking alcohol is a culture and a hobby for many people, but excessive drinking leading to addiction is a bad habit. Alcohol addiction is not only a health hazard, leading to gastritis, pancreatitis, hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver and even liver cancer, but it also affects relationships, generates domestic violence, and leads to DUI accidents. Are you an alcoholic who is often teased about being an “alcoholic”? Workers are under pressure, night off work or holidays like to get together and drink to relieve stress, but some people drink too hard or from the sip, slowly become alcoholism or alcohol addiction, damage to health and relationships. In this regard, Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare to provide alcohol use of self-testing scale, as long as 10 questions, you will be able to understand whether they have alcohol addiction or problematic drinking behavior. A small amount of alcohol sleeps and calms the body, but an overdose of addiction hurts your health. The role of alcohol in the body is similar to that of sleeping and calming drugs, which inhibit some of the functions of the central nervous system. However, excessive alcohol consumption will stimulate the esophagus and gastric mucosa, but also cause a burden on the liver, long-term will lead to gastritis, pancreatitis, hepatitis, cirrhosis and even liver cancer, as well as neurological and cardiovascular and other systemic pathologies. Not only health hazards, some people drink too much, too hard, or gradually from a small drink into excessive drinking, or even alcoholism or become addicted to alcohol, the behavior will also affect interpersonal and family relationships, and even social security, such as domestic violence, post-drinking violence, drink-driving accidents and so on. In addition, alcohol-addicted patients are unable to control their drinking, and if they suddenly reduce or stop drinking, a certain percentage of them will experience withdrawal symptoms. Common symptoms include trembling hands, rapid heartbeat, anxiety, hallucinations, spasms, confusion, etc. In severe cases, they may even die. Middle-aged people love to drink alcohol every 20 people in 1 The World Health Organization (WHO) pointed out that the harmful use of alcohol (harmfuluseofalcohol) will lead to cirrhosis of the liver and cancer and so on up to more than 200 kinds of disease incidence, is the world’s disease, disability and death of the top 5 risk factors. Statistics show that in 2012, about 3.3 million deaths were related to harmful use of alcohol, accounting for 5.9% of all deaths, indicating that harmful use of alcohol has a significant impact on individuals’ physical and mental health as well as public health. Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare, Department of Mental and Oral Health also said that this year (2014), a study exploring the relationship between alcohol use patterns and healthcare use behaviors among 18-64 year olds in Taiwan found that the prevalence of daily drinking among young adults aged 18-39 years old and middle-aged adults aged 40-64 years old was 1.82% and 4.82%, respectively, and that the probability of alcohol dependence was 2.4% and 2.27%, respectively. The prevalence rate of daily drinking is 1.82% and 4.4% respectively. 10 Problems of self-testing The prevention of drinking problems is far better than the treatment, in order to allow the public to early detection of the correlation between the harms of alcohol and the occurrence of alcohol addiction, Taiwan’s Department of Mental and Oral Health Division Director Chen Happy suggests more use of the “Alcohol Use Disorders Recognition and Detection Inventory (AUDIT)”, to assess their own drinking habits over the past year! If the following situations occur frequently, there may be problematic drinking or alcohol addiction, should reduce the amount of alcohol, and to find a psychiatrist for further evaluation or treatment. 10 Questions for self-test: 1. How often do you drink? 2. How much do you drink in general? 3. How often do you drink more than 6 units of alcohol? 4.How often do you find that once you start drinking you want to keep drinking? 5.How common is it to not be able to do the things you normally do because of drinking? 6. How common is it to need a drink in the morning after heavy drinking? 7. How common is it to feel guilty and blame yourself after drinking? 8. How common is it for you to forget what happened the night before after drinking? 9. Has anyone else ever been hurt because of your drinking? Have friends, relatives, or doctors expressed concern about your drinking or suggested that you drink less?