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Ask yourself the following questions:

1. Am I concerned about how much I drink
2. If I am low on money, will I buy alcohol before anything else
3. Does drinking change my personality
4. Do I vow to quit drinking often
5. Do I always make sure I have alcohol in the house
6. Do other people say I need to quit drinking
7. Have I ever tried to quit drinking
8. Have there been times when I've forgotten what's happened when drinking (blackouts)
9. Is anyone in my immediate family an alcoholic

If the answer is yes to more than half of these questions, I'd say you need to take a good look at what's happening to you.

I am a recovered alcoholic. I've been clean for 10 yrs now. I say recovered because alcoholism is something that never goes away. It can be arrested but never cured.

I also got into drugs during this time, and since I was about 13 I've been high on one thing or another. I didn't know what it was like to be totaly clean for 30 yrs of my life.. now that I am, I've found that I experience natural highs often. I never knew what this felt like when I was using. No more depression, no more hangovers, I can't tell you how much better I feel now. I was a slave to my own addiction, but now .. I'm free