Before you begin: This tool is educational, not diagnostic. It cannot replace an assessment by a qualified clinician. Your answers stay in your browser — nothing is recorded or sent anywhere unless you choose to reach out to us afterward.
The AUDIT-C is a 3-question screen developed by the World Health Organization and used in primary care clinics worldwide — it’s a public-domain instrument, not something we invented. The drug-use checklist reflects widely recognised warning signs used in general clinical practice. Neither replaces a full professional assessment, and neither should be read as a diagnosis.
A screening tool like this one looks at patterns — frequency, quantity, and the kinds of problems that tend to show up alongside hazardous drinking or drug use. It doesn’t look at the full clinical picture a professional would: your medical history, any co-occurring mental health conditions, prior treatment attempts, or what’s actually driving the pattern in the first place. That’s exactly the gap a proper alcohol addiction or drug addiction assessment is built to close.
A result suggesting a closer look doesn’t mean a fixed path has already been decided. At Thamarai, the next step is usually a confidential conversation, followed by a clinical assessment that looks at severity, any co-occurring conditions, and your actual circumstances — which then shapes whether medically supervised detoxification, a structured treatment program, or ongoing outpatient support makes the most sense. Where addiction and a mental health condition are both present, we treat them together through dual diagnosis care rather than addressing one and hoping the other resolves on its own.
Repeated attempts to stop or cut down on your own, without lasting success, are themselves a meaningful piece of information — not a personal failure. It’s part of why structured relapse prevention planning exists as its own area of care, built around the specific patterns and triggers that have made change harder to sustain alone.
If you’d like to understand the range of approaches used in treatment, our Schools of Therapy page outlines the clinical and complementary modalities we draw on, and our full range of services covers addiction, eating disorders, and mental health conditions together. If you’d rather skip straight to a conversation, you can contact our admissions team directly and confidentially, with or without taking this screening first.