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{{Useful Notes}}
This article exists to give a short overview of alcohol abuse and alcoholism, and include ways you can find help for yourself and/or someone else if you or someone you know is an alcohol abuser or alcoholic.
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* [[The Alcoholic]], on the other hand, ''needs'' to use alcohol or will go into a possibly fatal withdrawal syndrome called delirium tremens, cannot stop drinking once he or she begins to drink, even if the circumstances would demand moderation or sobriety. Alcoholic drinking is a need or compulsive behavior - an alcoholic may drink even when they do not want to do so.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131014095334/http://depression.about.com/od/screeningtools/l/blmast.htm The Michigan Alcohol Screening Test] can also help you determine whether you are an alcohol abuser or an alcoholic. This is the primary screening test for alcoholism.
=== Getting help ===
* [http://www.aa.org/ Alcoholics Anonymous] is
* [http://www.smartrecovery.org/ Smart Recovery] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104004445/https://rational.org/index.php?id=1 Rational Recovery] both are alternatives to AA that take a slightly different approach than AA's traditional 12-step recovery with no focus on the idea of a higher power, whatever it may be.
* [http://www.moderation.org/ Moderation Management] is a harm-reduction approach that allows for continued drinking but strictly controlled. It is at odds with much of the recovery community (which, often for very good reasons, demands total sobriety) and has somewhat less successful odds, and is probably more useful for problem drinkers/alcohol abusers than for true alcoholics.
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