With Halloween behind us and the transition to winter beginning, many people find themselves in a season full of celebrations—which often includes drinking. If you’re looking to evaluate your drinking habits or understand your limits, this practical guide, Knowing Your Limits with Alcohol: A Practical Guide to Assessing Your Drinking, can be a valuable resource to help you reflect and make informed decisions.
Drinking alcohol beyond low-risk levels can seriously affect many different areas of your health and wellbeing, even if you never become addicted to alcohol.
This brief guide is easy to understand and provides a way to assess your own drinking patterns, so you can get a better idea of your risk level.
If you then decide you want to change your alcohol consumption to a lower-risk level, the guide has some steps, tips and a “standard drinks” tracker to help you do that over four weeks. You may find this guide helpful by using it on your own.
You can also use it with the guidance of a healthcare professional. Keep in mind that this guide is only a self-help resource. It is not a tool for identifying medical problems, nor is it intended to replace treatment for medical disorders.