Do I Need Help FAQ

Honestly answering the following questions may help you find out if you have a substance abuse problem. Remember, however, that a brief self assessment cannot take the place of a full evaluation by an experienced substance abuse professional.

A "yes" answer to at least one of the five questions suggests that your drinking or drug use is harmful to your health and well-being and may adversely affect your work and those around you. This quiz does not provide a diagnosis of alcohol or drug abuse.

Substance Abuse Assessment Tool*

1. Have close friends or relatives worried or complained about your drinking or drug use (including prescription drugs) in the past year?
2. Do you sometimes take a drink or drug in the morning when you first get up to cope with the day or feel better from the night before?
3. Has a friend or family member ever told you about things you said or did while you were using alcohol or drugs that you could not remember?
4. Do you sometimes worry about, or feel the need to cut down on, your drug or alcohol use?
5. Have you ever felt bad or guilty about your drinking or drug use?

If you answer yes to any of the above questions, please consider coming in for a preliminary no-charge orientation, the first step to recovery. At orientation, we will schedule a confidential Assessment where a professional evaluates whether you have a substance abuse problem and if you do, the severity of that problem. The staff at ARP Addiction Recovery and Prevention understands that every person who comes to us for help is a unique human being with singular life experiences and desires. We honor your goals by becoming a partner with our clients in the journey to recovery and wellness. We never judge and you will never be alone once you take that first step.

From the moment you contact us, your confidentiality is ensured. You’re in control of who knows that you’re in treatment.

*This Substance Abuse self assessment is a compilation of two screening tools: the CAGE (developed by Dr. John Ewing, founding director of the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and TWEAK (developed by the Research Institute on Addictions at Buffalo, New York, Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Wayne State University).