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Alcohol Awareness in Loughborough and Charnwood

Posted on 21/10/09
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People in Charnwood are being urged to rethink your drink during Alcohol Awareness Week, which began on Monday.

Charnwood Community Safety Partnership is supporting the Governments Know Your Limits campaign, which is encouraging people across the country to take stock of how much they are drinking by keeping a drink diary for the week.

An ADVAN (advertising van) promoting sensible drinking will be touring Charnwood on the evenings of both Friday, October 23 and Saturday, 24 from about 4:30 pm.

During the next couple of months the partnership will be carrying out various operations in the borough including test purchases and multi agency visits to premises that sell alcohol to reduce the harm it does to young people and the wider community.

Cllr David Snartt, Chair of Charnwood Community Safety Partnership, said: Were behind the Know Your Limits campaign because alcohol is one of the leading causes of health problems in Charnwood.

Its so easy to get into a routine of regular drinking which is above the lower-risk guidelines, without realising you might be putting your health at risk.

For example, if a man regularly drinks a couple of pints of beer most days of the week, he is drinking above the lower-risk guidelines. Underage drinking is also a very real concern to the

community both in terms of the impact on health and anti social behaviour that arises from the abuse of alcohol.

Keeping a drink diary for a week is easy, and can really make you stop and think about whether you ought to be cutting back and theres no better time than Alcohol Awareness Week to give it a go.

Chairman of Charnwood Violent Crime Group Insp Tim McCabe said: I would invite all to take part in Alcohol Awareness Week.

Keeping a diary of alcohol units consumed is a real sobering thought. It can really make you stop and think how easy it is to fall into the habit of drinking regularly.

This campaign is not aimed at shock tactics or preventing people enjoying themselves, we simply want people to stop and think about the impact alcohol is having on their lives; the lives of their families and their community.

Over a quarter of the population in England (10 million adults) drink above the guidelines for lower risk drinking. Of these, 2.6 million adults (eight per cent of men and six per cent of women) regularly drink at higher risk levels.

The Chief Medical Officer's guidelines on lower-risk drinking recommend men do not drink more than three to four units daily (drinking about two pints or two cans of normal-strength lager or beer on a regular basis) and women do not drink more than two to three units daily (regularly drinking about a large glass of wine or three single measures of spirits).

Drinking above these levels can increase your risk of heart disease, breast cancer, liver disease, stroke and other diseases. Drinking above lower-risk guidelines can also impact on your ability to get a good nights sleep and affect your general day-to-day health.

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