A MESSAGE TO TEENAGERS...
How to tell when drinking is becoming a problem
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Copyright © 1988, 1998 by A.A. World
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ALCOHOLISM
Alcoholism is a rough word to deal with. Yet nobody is too young (or
too old) to have trouble with booze.
That's because alcoholism is an
illness. It can hit anyone. Young, old. Rich, poor. Black, white.
And it doesn't matter how long you've
been drinking or what you've been drinking. It's what drinking does
to you that counts.
To help you decide whether you might
have a problem with your own drinking, we've prepared these 12
questions. The answers are nobody's business but your own.
If you can answer yes to any one of
these questions, maybe it's time you took a serious look at what
your drinking might be doing to you.
And, if you do need help or if you'd
just like to talk to someone about your drinking,
email us at
A Simple 12-Question Quiz
designed To Help You Decide:
1 Do you drink
because you have problems? To relax? |
2 Do you drink
when you get mad at other people, your friends or parents? |
3 Do you prefer
to drink alone, rather than with others? |
4 Are your
grades starting to slip? Are you goofing off on your job? |
5 Did you ever
try to stop drinking or drink less — and fail? |
6 Have you begun
to drink in the morning, before school or work? |
7 Do you gulp
your drinks? |
8 Do you ever
have loss of memory due to your drinking? |
9 Do you lie
about your drinking? |
10 Do you ever
get into trouble when you're drinking? |
11 Do you get
drunk when you drink, even when you don't mean to? |
12 Do you think
it's cool to be able to hold your liquor? |
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Too Young?
Download this
pamphlet to find out more...
2.8 MB pdf
The following two stories from the
Big Book may help you decide whether you are alcoholic; also,
whether A.A. is for you. They sum it up something like this:
“We didn’t wait to hit bottom because, thank God, we could see the
bottom. Actually, the bottom came up and hit us. That sold us on
Alcoholics Anonymous.”
1.
The Missing Link
He looked at everything as the cause of his unhappiness—except
alcohol.
57 kb pdf download
2.
Student of Life
Living at home with her parents, she tried using willpower to beat
the obsession to drink. But it wasn’t until she met another
alcoholic and went to an A.A. meeting that sobriety took hold.
60 kb pdf download
International Convention of Young
People in AA: www.icypaa.org
Looking for other people your age
to meet and talk about all this?
Young Peoples Contact for Continental European Region AA:
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