NIAAA-Recommended Screener

The US National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) developed a 2-step screener that, in the first step, establishes if a patient consumes alcohol, and in the second asks how many times in the past year the individual has exceeded national guidelines. This instrument is frequently shortened by dropping the first step, creating a single-question instrument that requires no scoring. 

The NIAAA-recommended screener has been widely adopted in the USA, with meta-analytic studies finding high success in detecting a wide spectrum of unhealthy alcohol use, being generally comparable with the AUDIT-C.