Alcohol Dependency
Short-Form Alcohol Dependence Data Questionnaire (SADD)

2. Is getting drunk more important than your next meal?
Never
Sometimes
Often
Nearly always

3. Do you plan your day around when and where you can drink?
Never
Sometimes
Often
Nearly always

4. Do you drink in the morning, afternoon and evening?
Never
Sometimes
Often
Nearly always

5. Do you drink for the effect of alcohol without caring what the drink is?
Never
Sometimes
Often
Nearly always

6. Do you drink as much as you want irrespective of what you are doing the next day?
Never
Sometimes
Often
Nearly always

7. Given that many problems might be caused by alcohol do you still drink too much?
Never
Sometimes
Often
Nearly always

8. Do you know that you won't be able to stop drinking once you start?
Never
Sometimes
Often
Nearly always

9. Do you try to control your drinking by giving it up completely for days or weeks at a time?
Never
Sometimes
Often
Nearly always

10. The morning after a heavy drinking session do you need your first drink to get yourself going?
Never
Sometimes
Often
Nearly always

11. The morning after a heavy drinking session do you wake up with a definite shakiness of your hands?
Never
Sometimes
Often
Nearly always

12. After a heavy drinking session do you wake up and retch or vomit?
Never
Sometimes
Often
Nearly always

13. The morning after a heavy drinking session do you go out of your way to avoid people?
Never
Sometimes
Often
Nearly always

14. After a heavy drinking session do you see frightening things that later you realize were imaginary?
Never
Sometimes
Often
Nearly always

15. Do you go drinking and the next day find you have forgotten what happened the night before?
Never
Sometimes
Often
Nearly always

Source: Raistrick, D., Dunbar G. & Davidson, R. (1983): Development of a questionnaire to measure alcohol dependence, British Journal of Addiction, 78, 89 - 95.