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Bridgeburner
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Alcohol Detox Is Your Next Step If You Answer Even One Question 'Yes'
#7463703 - 09/28/07 10:32 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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http://www.articlebliss.com/Article/Alcohol-Detox-Is-Your-Next-Step-If-You-Answer-Even-One-Question--Yes-/152538
If you know someone who drinks too much, or if you even suspect that you have a drinking problem yourself, keep reading. This short article can give you the little boost you need to help you or your friend get a new lease on life through alcohol detox.
First, you need to understand that alcoholism, or alcohol abuse, is not nearly as complicated as some so-called experts would have you believe. In fact, it's only people who are complex, each with his or her own infinitely different thoughts, ideas, hopes, dreams, and of course, problems. What is the same about all alcohol abusers is how they really feel about their alcohol addiction, the kinds of problems it causes, and how they all have the same chance to regain normal lives through alcohol detox, usually followed by a good alcohol rehab program.
Because alcohol abuse creates such a similar set of problems among drinkers, a simple set of questions about their drinking problem – the exact same questions – can be asked of thousands of different people, and get identical answers. There are many different such sets of test questions used to help heavy drinkers zero in on the problems their drinking might be causing, and help nudge them towards an alcohol detox program.
The RAPS4 test
One of the shortest, quickest, and most accurate tests around is called the RAPS4 test. RAPS4 gets its name from the four questions, which address remorse (R), amnesia (A), performance (P), and starter drinking behavior (S) – all common markers for every single alcohol abuser anywhere. Countless thousands of people have used this test to successfully make the transition from alcohol addiction to alcohol detox.
This test has been shown effective in detecting alcohol dependence in the past 12 months. The questions used were already used in other similar screening tests, but this one is shorter, and easier. RAPS4 is highly effective in detecting alcohol dependence across gender and ethnic groups – white, black and Hispanic.
Are you ready to try it? Being honest will be easy. No one is listening to you. You are here alone reading. Just answer each question "yes" or "no" – and pay attention to the person who matters the most – you. Here you go:
1. Have you had a feeling of guilt or remorse after drinking?
2. Has a friend or a family member ever told you about things you said or did while you were drinking that you could not remember?
3. Have you failed to do what was normally expected of you because of drinking?
4. Do you sometimes take a drink when you first get up in the morning?
If you answered "no" to all four questions, your drinking pattern is considered safe for most people and your results do not suggest that alcohol is harming your health. A "yes" answer to at least one of the four questions suggests that your drinking is harmful to your health and well-being and may adversely affect your work and those around you. Your very next step should be to find an alcohol detox program: There's a good chance you are confronted by alcohol addiction.
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Re: Alcohol Detox Is Your Next Step If You Answer Even One Question 'Yes' [Re: Bridgeburner]
#7463922 - 09/28/07 11:21 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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the DSM-IV has an entry for caffeine intoxication
they can make a disease out of anything
it helps them sell treatment
-------------------- "America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn't belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don't care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve." - Tom Morello
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Re: Alcohol Detox Is Your Next Step If You Answer Even One Question 'Yes' [Re: wps]
#7463975 - 09/28/07 11:31 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've been intoxicated before and drunk way too much incredibly strong turkish coffee...
Poly-Drug Abuse is AWESOME.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Nickio
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Re: Alcohol Detox Is Your Next Step If You Answer Even One Question 'Yes' [Re: Madtowntripper]
#7464270 - 09/28/07 12:59 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I answered yes to all four of these questions... but I am in college. I think there needs to be a disclaimer that says it doesnt pertain to you if you are in college.
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Re: Alcohol Detox Is Your Next Step If You Answer Even One Question 'Yes' [Re: Bridgeburner]
#7464285 - 09/28/07 01:05 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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NO SHIT it's unhealthy. NO SHIT I abuse it. Heh, who cares?
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ca'rouse (k-rouz) intr.v. To engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.
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kriminalelement
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Re: Alcohol Detox Is Your Next Step If You Answer Even One Question 'Yes' [Re: Nickio]
#7464333 - 09/28/07 01:18 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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yes, it still applies if you are in college. I've seen too many of my friends getting fat, disgusting beer bellies from drinking all day and failing out of school. Those people are called ALCOHOLICS, and just because there is a normalcy of alchoholism in college doesn't mean you're not a drug addict.
Then again, if you're happy not going to class and getting fat and flunking out and destroying your liver, i mean really genuinely happy with it (i don't understand the appeal of alcohol, its a really shitty high, but whatever), then there's no reason why you should get help. But if you've answered yes to "remorse" then you might want to control yourself just a little bit. It's stupid to do things you know you'll regret.
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Madtowntripper
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Re: Alcohol Detox Is Your Next Step If You Answer Even One Question 'Yes' [Re: kriminalelement]
#7464825 - 09/28/07 04:12 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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You ignore the (obvious?) fact that many of us in college drink heavily, yet do not flunk out of school or become obnoxiously obese.
Sterotyping is stupid, even if your trying to prove a good point.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Re: Alcohol Detox Is Your Next Step If You Answer Even One Question 'Yes' [Re: Madtowntripper]
#7465288 - 09/28/07 06:58 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hmm, I think I have a problem, sometimes I don't remember what I did when drunk....
Fuck... that happens when I'm sober too, maybe sobriety is a problem for me.
I sometimes feel guilty after a drink...... yep... that one last one, that makes me go pray to the porcelain goddess.
Sometimes when I wake up, first thing in the morning, I have a drink... yep.. as long as I'm off work that day, it's party time if I want a beer, I'm having a fucking beer.
Dammit... I'm an alcoholic with a problem
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Re: Alcohol Detox Is Your Next Step If You Answer Even One Question 'Yes' [Re: Nickio]
#7466258 - 09/29/07 01:56 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
Nickio said: I answered yes to all four of these questions... but I am in college. I think there needs to be a disclaimer that says it doesnt pertain to you if you are in college.
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Nephlyte
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Re: Alcohol Detox Is Your Next Step If You Answer Even One Question 'Yes' [Re: Bridgeburner]
#7466673 - 09/29/07 08:52 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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b0red5tiff said: A "yes" answer to at least one of the four questions suggests that your drinking is harmful to your health and well-being and may adversely affect your work and those around you. Your very next step should be to find an alcohol detox program: There's a good chance you are confronted by alcohol addiction.
Also, if you don't forward this test to 10 people, your dog will die.
This article reads like a chain letter. It has authority but no cites and absolute conclusions with no mitigating circumstances. Fact is, if you answer those questions with a yes, then you MIGHT have a drinking problem.
You could just as easily have a drinking problem with no remorse, full memory, always get your shit done, and never have a drink in the morning. Actually, besides having a drink in the morning, i think i could answer yes to all those questions while sober.
-------------------- "To do right is to know what you want. Now when you are dissatisfied with yourself it's because you are after something you don't really want. What objects are you proposing to yourself? Are they the objects you really value? If they are not, you are cheating yourself. I don't meant that if you chose to pursue the objects you most value, you will attain them; of course not. Your experience will tell you that. But success in getting after much labor what you really don't care for is the bitterest and most ridiculous failure." -George Santayana
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Re: Alcohol Detox Is Your Next Step If You Answer Even One Question 'Yes' [Re: Nephlyte]
#7467127 - 09/29/07 11:59 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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how hypocritical it is for a society that says alcoholism is bad, but at the same time allows mass advertisement for alcohol on tv, associating alcohol with social fun and sex
yes, spot on for whoever said DSM IV makes a disease out of anything for very specific interests.. but one should not deny alcohol is abused, and this abuse can eventually cause many problems not only for the person himself but for those around him too
btw, this test is bullshit.. how can one say you are alcoholic from such simplistic questions specially the one that talks about ´normality´.. lol, as if the normal citizen was so good, something to aspire to. It is a much more complex and contextual problem that must be looked at from much broader perspective
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Re: Alcohol Detox Is Your Next Step If You Answer Even One Question 'Yes' [Re: Endlessness]
#7467699 - 09/29/07 04:29 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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crap test.
1) Of course I do. When I wake up the next morning and feel like a train rammed me down.
2) Of course I dont remember, I was drunk!
3)Of course I failed,I couldnt find my dick with both hands if I tried to.
4)The only question I will answer no,but a lot of ppl drink when they wake up after a night of drinking. The english even have a saying for it,"take a hair of the dog that bit you"
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Edited by John Smith (09/29/07 04:34 PM)
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Re: Alcohol Detox Is Your Next Step If You Answer Even One Question 'Yes' [Re: John Smith]
#7467938 - 09/29/07 06:18 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Your very next step should be to find an alcohol detox program: There's a good chance you are confronted by alcohol addiction
A bit presumptuous to say the least. I don't see any scientific sources, so no need to get all zealous against the DSM. Alcoholism is real. There are people who are better off never doing any drugs. This is a fact that some people on this site have a problem with.
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Re: Alcohol Detox Is Your Next Step If You Answer Even One Question 'Yes' [Re: Misanthrope]
#7467966 - 09/29/07 06:28 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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> 4. Do you sometimes take a drink when you first get up in the morning?
Yes, it is called case day, and once a year we start drinking at 8:00am and finish at 12:00pm drinking one beer every 40 minutes. Because I choose to drink first thing in the morning one time a year does not mean that I need alcohol detox.
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Re: Alcohol Detox Is Your Next Step If You Answer Even One Question 'Yes' [Re: Seuss]
#7470251 - 09/30/07 12:18 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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You ignore the (obvious?) fact that many of us in college drink heavily, yet do not flunk out of school or become obnoxiously obese.
Sterotyping is stupid, even if your trying to prove a good point.
Okay, that's fine, but I've seen it happen to too many people I knew. If you're going to a rigorous university, are in an engineering program, accounting program, architectural program, chemistry program, or WHATEVER, you cannot afford to drink in the morning before you go to class, and you'll certainly feel regret every time you get drunk because no matter what day it is, you're spending it in the library.
If you have a blow off major or go to an easier school (like me) then you probably can get drunk a lot and do just fine. It's still bad for your liver to drink so much that you're drinking in the morning. College students drink heavily, yes. College students also have high alcoholism rates. I'm not saying that you go to a blow off school or are in a shitty major. I'm just saying, all of my friends that managed to stay at Illinois, Wharton, MIT, Stanford, etc from high school weren't alcoholics. The ones that dropped out ALL were. It's really sad when someone who gets drunk around 3 times a week has to leave Princeton because they were too drunk to work.
My sister is in the accounting program at UT Austin. She LOVES alchohol, but would answer "no" to all questions. Why? She is responsible about drinking. She would never drink at a time she regrets. you aren't exempt from facing the consequences of your behavior because you're in college. Sure, some people might make it through okay being alcoholics, but they'll have serious recovery problems when they're out, not to mention the complication of working drunk and finding a job with a GPA typically waaaaaaaaaaay lower than that of their non-drunk classmates, or a degree from a university that is less than prestigious.
-------------------- While there is a lower class, I am in it While there is a criminal element, I am of it While there is a soul in prison, I am not free. Eugene V Debs
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