A joke that was being told around addiction treatment facilities a while ago went like this: If you want to find out whether somebody is alcoholic, follow him into a bar at happy hour. When he’s not looking, drop a dead fly on top of his beer. If he’s a social drinker, he’ll leave it alone and go on talking. If he’s a problem drinker, he’ll wait till no one is looking, then flick the fly off. But if he’s alcoholic, he’ll wring that sucker out …
Since this method of diagnosis is probably not practical in the general clinical setting, clinicians have developed several questionnaires that are used to determine whether someone is addicted.
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