MICHIGAN ALCOHOLISM SCREENING TEST (MAST)

Points YES NO

0. Do you enjoy a drink now and then? _______ _______

(2) *1. Do you feel you are a normal drinker? (By normal we mean you drink less than or as much as most other people) _______ _______

(2) 2. Have you ever awakened the morning after some drinking the night before and found that you could not remember a part of the evening? _______ _______

(1) 3. Does your wife, husband, a parent, or other near relative ever worry or complain about your drinking? _______ _______

(2) *4. Can you stop drinking without a struggle after one or two drinks? _______ _______

(1) 5. Do you ever feel guilty about your drinking? _______ _______

(2) *6. Do friends or relatives think you are a normal drinker? _______ _______

(2) *7. Are you able to stop drinking when you want to? _______ _______

(5) 8. Have you ever attended a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)? _______ _______

(1) 9. Have you gotten into physical fights when drinking? _______ _______

(2) 10. Has your drinking ever created problem between you and your wife, husband, a parent, or other relative? _______ _______

(2) 11. Has your wife, husband (or other family members) ever gone to anyone for help about your drinking? _______ _______

(2) 12. Have you ever lost friends because of your drinking? _______ _______

(2) 13. Have you ever gotten into trouble at work or school because of drinking? _______ _______

(2) 14. Have you ever lost a job because of drinking? _______ _______

(2) 15. Have you ever neglected your obligations, your family, or your work for two or more days in a row because you were

drinking? _______ _______

(1) 16. Do you drink before noon fairly often? _______ _______

(2) 17. Have you ever been told you have liver trouble? Cirrhosis? _______ _______

* Alcoholic response is negative

(2) **18. After heavy drinking have you ever had Delirium Tremens (D.T.'s ) or severe shaking, or heard voices or seen things that really weren' t there? _______ _______

(5) 19. Have you ever gone to anyone for help about your drinking? _______ _______

(5) 20. Have you ever been in a hospital because of drinking? _______ _______

(2) 21. Have you ever been a patient in a psychiatric hospital or on a psychiatric ward of a general hospital where drinking was part of the problem that resulted in hospitalization? _______ _______

(2) 22. Have you ever been seen at a psychiatric or mental health clinic or gone to any doctor, social worker, or clergyman for help with any emotional problem, where drinking was part of the problem? _______ _______

(2) ***23. Have you ever been arrested for drunk driving, driving while intoxicated, or driving under the influence of alcoholic beverages? (IF YES, How many times? ______________) _______ _______

(2) 24. Have you ever been arrested, or taken into custody, even for a few hours, because of other drunk behavior? (IF YES, How many times? ______________) ** 5 points for each Delirium Tremens *** 2 points for each arrest _______ _______

SCORING SYSTEM: In general, five points or more would place the subject in an "alcoholic" category. Four points would be suggestive of alcoholism, three points or less would indicate the subject was not alcoholic. Programs using the above scoring system find it very sensitive at the five point level and it tends to find more people alcoholic than anticipated. However, it is a screening test and should be sensitive at its lower levels.

Thomas E. Radecki, M.D., J.D.

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