Caution! The Below Questions Are Experimental:

Beware Mixing These Questions With Toxic Substances!
Find in The Below Self Assessment:
Your Opportunity for an Accurate and Honest Private Self-Appraisal

Straight Forward Questions:
Simple Responses: Yes or No?

Can You Really Give Yourself an Honest and Accurate Answer?
Confidential Answers to Yourself: For Reflection & Personal Review

Some Relevant Questions to Self Assess Your Drinking:

• Do you lose time or have work problems due to your drinking?
• Is drinking compromising friendships, marriage or family?
• Do you drink for emotional relief or to manage your moods?
• Are some events or activities hard to negotiate without alcohol?
  
• Is drinking negatively affecting your reputation or self esteem?
• Do you find yourself regretting you actions drinking?
• Can you accurately predict exactly how much you will drink?
• Do you sometimes get more intoxicated than you had intended?
  
• Have you had financial difficulties as a result of your drinking?
• Do you keep alcoholic companions and inferior environments?
• Does your drinking find you criticized by you family's?
• Has your energy level and ambition decreased while drinking?
• Do you yearn strongly for a drink at a definite time daily?
• Do you want a drink in the morning of early afternoon?
• Does alcohol create problems with over eating of sleeping?
• Has your effectiveness or efficiency decreased since drinking?
• Problem drinking jeopardized your job or business success?
• Do you drink to relieve stress of escape from worries or troubles?
• Do you drink alone in isolation and without company?
• Have you secretly wondered or admitted you are an alcoholic?
  
• Have you ever had a loss of memory or blackout while drinking?
• Has your counselor or physician ever advised you abort alcoholism?
• Do you drink find social ease or build up your self-confidence?
• Have you ever been hospitalized for alcoholism drinking?
• Does alcoholism run in your family or are most friends alcoholic?
  

How is Your Cocaine or Other Drug Use Effecting Your Life?

Questions about your use of Cocaine:
Do You Know How Chemical Dependency is Defined or Diagnosed?

• Excessive or negative consequences or problem use of cocaine (or other chemical substances): For example: getting high on cocaine, crack or other drugs or getting drunk on alcohol and not being able to fulfill important role obligations at home, work, or socially. Sensing that cocaine or other substances are needed to "fit in" with others or to function adequately at work or to "cope" at home.
• Driving under the influence DUI of substances or risking arrest because you are loaded. Do you have an arrest history for drugs or drinking and driving under the influence DUI. Do you have more then one DUI or DWI. Have you been ordered to treatment or taken a deferred prosecution for drunk driving DUI or DWI.
  
• Preoccupation with getting or using drugs: Working and planning to protect you supply of cocaine, crack, narcotics or other drugs. Making substance use too central and important in life; or being obsessed and preoccupied with using cocaine, narcotics or other substances.
• Change in your tolerance for various addictive chemicals: For example, needing progressively more cocaine or other drugs to get high or getting high much more easily. Does it take more or less of the substance than was necessary in the past to satisfy your craving. Chemically dependent people must first use more of their drug of choice to get the desired effect. Then, often the drug abuser experiences decreased tolerance for their drug.
  
• Are you having trouble reducing, abstaining, staying away from cocaine, narcotic drugs or other substance use: For example, not being able to control how much or how often you use cocaine or other substances -- or using more cocaine than usual or abusing other substances instead. Chemical dependency my involve switching between various drugs to prove "I am not addicted."
  
• Do you have withdrawal symptoms or fear you are addicted and may have withdrawal: When not using chemicals do you get physically ill? This may include having the shakes, or tremor, severe anxiety, panic, feeling nauseous or having a perpetual runny nose.
• Once you cut down or stops using cocaine or other substances, do you experience intense and annoying emotional problems or complain of symptoms such as depression, anxiety, or aggravating cravings or clear withdrawal symptoms. Have you considered private drug counseling, addiction treatment or rehabilitation center programs?
  
• Are you using substances to avoid or stop withdrawal symptoms: For example, using cocaine or other substances to prevent fatigue, or feeling hungover from drinking drugging. Do you use more  to stop withdrawal symptoms once they’ve started.
• Continuing to abuse cocaine, crack or other substances even though they cause more and more problems in you life: Chemically dependent people are not readily able to respond to a doctor, therapist or other professional counselors advice to stop or cut down because of obvious problems that substance abuse has caused in your life.
• Have others told you that you are addicted or called you an addict. Do you get really defensive when others talk to you about addiction or ask you to get help for substance abuse?
  
• Giving up important activities and interests or losing friendships because of cocaine addiction or other substance abuse: Stopping you participation in activities that once were important, giving up close friends who don’t get high, losing friends because of how cocaine or other drug use affects relationships your with others.
• Stopping and starting cocaine, crack, or menthamphetamines and again. Wondering if you are addicted. Promising to quit using cocaine, smoking crack, abusing narcotics or other drugs, not keeping your promises to yourself. Keeping this internal promise secret -- only to begin getting high on narcotics again -- not able to remain abstinent from cocaine or other drugs. Secretly slipping or admitting you are an addict?
  
• Getting into all manner of trouble because of cocaine, narcotics or other drug abuse: Like repetitively losing jobs or being unable or unwilling to find a job, getting arrested or engaging actions that find you high risk for arrest. Having related legal problems; sabotaging otherwise valued relationships or having trouble with family, lovers or friends.
• Experiencing financial loss and problems supporting yourself because of narcotics cocaine or other substance use.

Dual Diagnosis
This site provides information and resources for service providers, consumers, and family members who are seeking mental health and addiction recovery assistance and/or education.

Women for Sobriety
Women For Sobriety is both an organization and a self-help recovery program for treatment of women alcoholics or addicts. It is, in fact, the first national self-help treatment program for women alcoholics. Based upon a Thirteen Statment Program of positivity that encourages emotional and spiritual growth, the “New Life” Program has been extremely effective in helping women to overcome their alcoholism or drug addiction and to learn a wholly new lifestyle.

Psych Central Articles
Psychology central welcomes you to our community scientists and psychologist-practitioners of the psychological sciences! Psych central offers a wide range of free informational and educational articles and resources on psychology, support and mental health and addiction recovery rehab and  treatment resources online.

Seattle Counselors Association
A greater Seattle professional organization for mental health counselors, family counselors, chemical dependency and other addiction counselors, social workers, therapists, and psychotherapists from all counseling fields and backgrounds in King and South Snohomish Counties.


Eating Disorder Referral Service
This comprehensive site provides information and treatment resources for all forms of eating disorders. Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa and Compulsive Binge Eating.

The Sober Recovery Directory
The SoberRecovery directory lists hundreds of drug rehab and treatment centers, alcohol rehabilitation centers, sober living houses and recovery related web sites. Site offers help, referrals and information for heroin, cocaine, alcohol, marijuana, and treatment program options including detox, teen boot camps, wilderness programs and outpatient programs for adults or adolescents.

Intervention.net
Site by Walter Scanlon, respected author on the subject of family intervention offers elegant descriptions of various addiction treatment and  intervention strategies.

Twelve Step Meetings in Seattle: The Twelve Step Fellowship
Is AA for You" "Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women that who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking."

Seattle Alcoholics Anonymous 12 Step Meetings A schedule for Alcoholics Anonymous and related twelve step meetings in Seattle. Resources for 12 step meetings in Seattle for codependency anonymous, alanon, alateen, adult children of alcoholics, sex addicts anonymous, over eaters anonymous and the like.
Alateen (Youth: Age 12-17)   800-356-9996
AlAnon  (Friends  Families)   800-344-2666
Alcoholics Anonymous AA, 212-870-3400
Anorexia Nervosa and Associated (
Eating) Disorders (ANAD), 847-831-3438
Cocaine Anonymous (CA)  800-347-8998
Co-Anon (Cocaine Addicts’ Family Groups), 520-513-5088
CoDependents Anonymous (CODA), 602-277-7991
Debtors Anonymous     (DA)  781-453-2743
Emotions Anonymous   (EA)  651-647-9712
Families Anonymous    (FA)  800-736-9805
Gambler’s Anonymous (GA)  213-386-8789
GamAnon Loves Ones  (GA)  718-352-1671
Marijuana Anonymous (MA), 800-766-6779
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD)


Dr. Patrick J. Hart
Well Then: You Guessed It!
I Had to Learn How to Give it Up!
An Alumni of Hazelden SpringBrook: Health Professionals Program
If You are Suffering:
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Seattle Mental Health & Addiction Counseling
Explore Your Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs: Are you still using for fun and recreation? Or have the consequences of you use started to create problems in your life? Have those hangovers been getting harder? Does you use seem out of control? Does your drinking pattern pattern involve more than social relaxation and fun? Have you concluded that drug use is getting in the way of your occupation and relationships or that this is destroying your physical and mental health? - When it is a shame to continue -- there is no shame in calling out for help!