Advice
This section will provide all kinds of information about alcohol. Hopefully we can help you decide if you are drinking enough to put yourself in danger. The following links provide some basic information that everyone should know:
WHAT IS ALCOHOL?
THE LAWS ON ALCOHOL
SAFETY INFORMATION
When should you be worried about your drinking? What exactly does alcohol do to your body, your mind and your whole lifestyle? The following link gives some detailed information about the various ways that alcohol can affect the drinker.
How badly alcohol can effect you depends on how much, and how regularly you drink it. We suggest you keep an alcohol diary and use the table below to measure your intake. You can also take our online questionnaire for an immediate scoring.
QUESTIONNAIRE - IS YOUR DRINKING A PROBLEM?
Drink diary
Keep a diary of how much you drink in a week and count up all your units using the unit table.
| Drink Diary | ||||||
| Date | Time | Drink | Amount | Where | With Whom | Comments |
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Safe Levels
If you keep within the safe levels of alcohol intake, you have a much better chance of avoiding the problems described in the effects of alcohol section. Here are the recommended alcohol levels:
If you are over 18:
| Male: Your safe levels of alcohol per week are 21. Your safe levels of alcohol per day are 3 |
Female: Your safe levels of alcohol per week are 14 Your safe levels of alcohol per day are 2 |
If you are under 18:
There is no safe level of alcohol for you. Even a small amount of alcohol might damage you body a lot.
Unit Table
| How Many Units of Alcohol In Your Drink? | |||
| Drink | Amount | Units of Alcohol | |
| Beers & Lagers | Low alcohol beer | 1 pint | 0.5 units |
| Ordinary strength beer or lager | 1/2 pint | 1 unit | |
| 1 pint | 2 units | ||
| 1 can | 1.5 units | ||
| Export beer | 1 pint | 2.5 units | |
| 1 can | 2 units | ||
| Strong ale or lager | 1/2 pint | 2 units | |
| 1 pint | 4 units | ||
| 1 can | 3 units | ||
| Extra strength beer or Lager | 1/2 pint | 2.5 units | |
| 1 pint | 5 units | ||
| 1 can | 4 units | ||
| Ciders | Average cider | 1/2 pint | 1.5 units |
| 1 pint | 3 units | ||
| Quart Bottle | 6 units | ||
| Strong cider | 1/2 pint | 2.5 units | |
| 1 pint | 5 units | ||
| Quart Bottle | 8 units | ||
| Table Wine | Including cider wine and barley wine | 175ml glass | 1.5 unit |
| 750ml bottle | 7 units | ||
| 1 litre bottle | 10 units | ||
| Fortified Wine | Buckfast, Sherry, Martini, Port | 175ml glass | 3.5 units |
| 750ml bottle | 14 units | ||
| Spirits | Whisky, Gin, Vodka | 25ml pub measure | 1 unit |
| 750ml bottle | 30 units | ||
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Remember that 1 unit = Half a pint of lager or 1 glass of wine or 1 (25ml) measure of spirits.