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The risk of health harms from alcohol is low for people who consume two standard drinks or fewer per week, but it's higher with greater consumption, according to new guidance from the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction.
. This creates many opportunities to inquire into quantity and frequency of alcohol use, relate it to the patient's health and well-being, and provide advice on reduction.""Canada's Guidance on Alcohol and Health: Final Report" and a related infographic were published online January 17.
Using different mortality risk thresholds, the project's experts developed the following continuum of risk:Moderate for those who consume from three to six standard drinks per weekThe guidance makes the following observations: Far more injuries, violence, and deaths result from men's alcohol use, especially for per occasion drinking, than from women's alcohol use.Individuals should not start to use alcohol or increase their alcohol use for health benefits."Countries that haven't updated their alcohol use guidelines recently should do so, as the evidence regarding alcohol and health has advanced considerably in the past 10 years," said Sherk.
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