Alcohol use
Information, advice and support for alcohol use.
Alcohol guidelines
The UK Chief Medical Officers’ alcohol guidelines for both men and women states that
- to keep health risks from alcohol to a low level it is safest not to drink more than 14 units a week on a regular basis
- if you regularly drink as much as 14 units per week, it's best to spread your drinking evenly over three or more days; If you have one or two heavy drinking episodes a week, you increase your risk of death from long-term illness and injuries
- the risk of developing a range of health problems (including cancers of the mouth, throat and breast) increases the more you drink on a regular basis
- if you wish to cut down the amount you drink, a good way to help achieve this is to have several drink-free days a week
- it is recommended that if you're pregnant or planning to become pregnant you should not drink alcohol, drinking in pregnancy can lead to long-term harm to the baby, with the more you drink, the greater the risk
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