Note that three "yes" answers indicate a reason to consider the possibility. If you answer "yes" to 1,3,5,6, 8, 9, 17, and 19 but it is all ancient history, you may have dodged a bullet. Notice that the questions are posed in the present tense.
airguy
Cleared for Takeoff
What you call "dodging a bullet" most of us would call "growing up". To each their own...
bflynn
Final Approach
It's a diagnosis statistic. There are X symptoms or behaviors defined. If you have at least Y of them, you are diagnosed. In my research DSM-IV for alcohol dependency has 7 factors and 3 are required for diagnosis.
I'd hazard an opinion that the 80% comes about because those who meet five of the criteria are likely to drink every day, not the other way around. Also, there is a factor that the way medicine is practiced today, achieving a diagnosis is the goal, so there is probably a bias toward diagnosis.
On the larger list above, I have to confess that #8 never affects me...I don't think I can find much more inferior companions or environments that those I already have...(and I fit right in with them)
DaleB
Final Approach
I have a sneaking suspicion that it's something more along the lines of... "Of patients who were diagnosed with an alcohol dependency, 80% had daily intake of alcohol".
But I know next to nothing about statistical methods, all I know is statisticians swear they're right. Always.
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I think you're probably right about your suspicion.
If so, then that's like saying that 80% of people who drink too much coffee drink it daily.
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I would add a number 21, "Was your grandfather and father an alcoholic?"
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pilotod
Pre-takeoff checklist
5 drinks a day...as simple as it gets...you've crossed the line. That's a simple definition I got from listening to Dr. Dean Edell. Subjective questions don't work...actual quantity seems to be what takes you from control to abuse.
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Gee whiz. I didn't make up the list. Here, take your choice from several lists:Have you SEEN the list of people coming to Gaston's?!
http://www.alcoholism-information.com/Ten_Warning_Signs_of_Alcoholism.html
BTW, does anyone know anything about the guy on TV who claims he has a cure for alcoholism and is obviously opposed to using 12-step programs?