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This guide is one in a series of resources meant to guide promotion of a comprehensive approach to psychoactive substance use within post-secondary institution communities.
“Three bowls only do I serve for the temperate: one for health, which they empty first; the second for love and pleasure; and the third for sleep. When this bowl is drunk up, wise guests go home. The fourth bowl is ours no longer, but belongs to violence; the fifth to uproar; the sixth to drunken revel; the seventh to black eyes; the eighth is the policeman’s; the ninth belongs to biliousness; and the tenth to madness and hurling the furniture.”
>>> ensures alcohol is an for fun times with friends and family instead of a during highs and lows of life
>>> lowers risk
of cancer &
other diseases
and conditions
"Not too much, not too often,
and only in safe contexts."
Low-risk drinking messages can be offered through a variety of campus settings.
Campus health-related web pages and printed materials variously disseminated on campus can help spread the word.
All these efforts must be situated within a
aimed at promoting a positive campus culture.
Mixed messages will undermine the plausibility of messaging around moderation.
1. Guidelines for Promoting Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking:
http://www.ccsa.ca/Eng/topics/alcohol/drinking-guidelines/Pages/default.aspx
2. Alcohol Reality Check:
http://carbc.ca/AlcoholRealityCheck/tabid/263/ctl/Adult/mid/837/g/1/a/4/l/0/Default.aspx
To encourage post-secondary institutions to:
commending low-risk drinking to campus
members
Communities have used it in
Alcohol has been used in various human societies for at least
Individuals have used it (with differing degrees of success or failure) to:
Guidelines to help drinkers balance potential benefits with a consideration of the potential harms are not new.
For young adults under 25, this means a limit of:
http://www.responsibility.org/sites/default/files/files/SyracuseUniversity.pdf
>> no one monitoring drinking levels
>> people playing drinking games
>> there are more strangers than friends around
>> unsupervised initiation events
A standard drink is:
=
142 ml/ 5 oz. wine @ 12%
=
341 ml/ 12 oz. beer @ 5%
43ml/ 1.5 oz. @ 40%
Not sure if you are pouring a standard drink? Take the bartender challenge:
http://www.deflatetheelephant.com/home-bartending-challenge.html
http://www.keepitsocial.ca/
http://educalcool.qc.ca/en/a-propos-de-nous/publicite/moderation-by-the-numbers-2-3-4-0/#.VCR0jth0zIU
Familiarize yourself with Canada's low-risk drinking guidelines
Check out the available tools and samples to support implementation
Share your ideas with other campus professionals, students, faculty and community members
Reflect further together on how these ideas might best be applied in your setting
Substance Use vs. Abuse