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©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email AUDIT How often did you have adrink containing alcohol in the past year? Consider a drink to be a can or bottle of beer, a glass ofwine, a wine cooler, or one cocktail or a shot of hard liquor. Response: Never: 0 points Monthly or less: 1 point 2 to 4 times per month: 2 points 2 to 3 times per week: 3 points 4 or more times per week: 4 points How many drinks did you haveon a typical day when you were drinking in the past year? Response: 0-2 drinks: 0 points 3 to 4 drinks: 1 point 5 to 6 drinks: 2 points 7 to 9 drinks: 3 points 10 or more drinks: 4 points How often did you have 6 ormore drinks on one occasion in the past year? Response: Never: 0 points Less than monthly: 1point Monthly: 2 points Weekly: 3 points Daily or almost daily: 4 points A cutoff of 4 points or more identified 86 percent of patients with heavy drinking and/or active alcohol abuse or dependence with a specificity of 72 percent (false positive rate 18 percent). Data from: Bush, K, Kivlahan, DR, McDonell, MB, et al. The AUDIT Alcohol Consumption Questions: An effective brief screening test for problem drinking. Arch Intern Med 1998; 158:1789.