Alcohol use screener
The AUDIT-C, free and scored instantly
3 questions, about 1 minute. Your answers stay in your browser. We only see them if you ask us to.
Take the AUDIT-C
Three questions, drawn from the World Health Organization’s AUDIT. It asks about how much and how often you drink, not about whether you have a problem. Honest answers are the only useful ones, and nobody sees them unless you send them.
Please answer about your drinking over the past year.
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Your result
0 / 12
This is a screening tool, not a diagnosis. It cannot tell you what you have. Only a conversation with a clinician can do that, and a low score does not mean your experience is not real or not worth help.
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AUDIT-C (AUDIT-C). Bush et al. (1998), derived from the World Health Organization’s AUDIT. Copyright World Health Organization. WHO permits its AUDIT manual to be abstracted and reproduced, in part or in whole, but not for sale or in conjunction with commercial purposes; the AUDIT-C is a three-question abstraction of it (Bush et al., 1998), this screener is free, and WHO does not endorse this practice.
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What the AUDIT-C measures
Three questions, drawn from the World Health Organization’s AUDIT. It asks about how much and how often you drink, not about whether you have a problem. Honest answers are the only useful ones, and nobody sees them unless you send them.
It is scored out of 12. Higher scores mean more of the experiences it asks about, over the period the questions cover, nothing more than that. The bands below are the published ones, and they describe a range, not a person.
| Score | Band | What it suggests |
|---|---|---|
| 0–2 | Below the screening cut-off | Your answers fall below the range where clinicians usually look further. |
| 3–12 | At or above the cut-off | Your answers are in the range where a conversation about drinking is usually worthwhile. ⚠️ The published cut-off differs by sex (3 or more for women, 4 or more for men), so treat a score of 3 as a prompt rather than an answer. |
What it cannot do
A screener cannot diagnose you. It asks a fixed set of questions and scores the answers by a fixed rule; it knows nothing about your history, your circumstances, or anything you were not asked. Two people with the same score can need very different things, and someone with a low score can still be struggling in a way that deserves help. If your result worries you, or if it does not match how you actually feel, that mismatch is worth a conversation on its own.
Where this instrument comes from
AUDIT-C (AUDIT-C). Bush et al. (1998), derived from the World Health Organization’s AUDIT.
We publish it here under its authors' own terms. Copyright World Health Organization. WHO permits its AUDIT manual to be abstracted and reproduced, in part or in whole, but not for sale or in conjunction with commercial purposes; the AUDIT-C is a three-question abstraction of it (Bush et al., 1998), this screener is free, and WHO does not endorse this practice. We have not reworded any item. A screener is validated as a specific set of words with a specific response scale, and changing them would make the scores above meaningless.
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