We know that drinking too much can harm your health. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends that if adults (age 21 and older) choose to drink alcohol, drinking less is better for health than drinking more.
There is no known safe amount of alcohol use during pregnancy or while trying to get pregnant.
What is a Standard Drink?
- 12 ounces of beer (5% alcohol content).
- 8 ounces of malt liquor (7% alcohol content).
- 5 ounces of wine (12% alcohol content).
- 1.5 ounces or a “shot” of 80-proof (40% alcohol content) distilled spirits or liquor (e.g., gin, vodka, rum, tequila, whiskey, brandy).
What is Excessive Drinking?
Signs of Drinking Too Much:
- You drink more or longer than you intended.
- You try to cut down or stop drinking, but are not able to.
- You need to drink more than you once did, to get the effect you want.
- You continue to drink even though it makes you feel depressed or anxious ― or adds to another health problem.
- Loved ones or trusted friends have made comments about your drinking.
- You spend a lot of time drinking or thinking about alcohol.
- You find that drinking interferes with daily activities, family, friends, or work.
- Or maybe…
- You have had legal problems due to drinking.
- You have experienced symptoms of withdrawal when you don’t drink (such as shakiness, sweating, tremors, headaches, anxiety, irritability, and/or insomnia).
Check Your Alcohol Use
- Set a daily and weekly drinking limit.
- Write down your limit and keep it with you.
- Record how much you drink each day.
- Avoid situations and triggers that cause you to drink.
- Ask a friend to help you stay within your limit.
- Talk with a doctor about your alcohol use.
Treatment
There is treatment. It varies, based on a person’s needs. There are many choices today. Treatment can include counseling, medications, and/or mutual-support groups.
Alcohol Policies
Policies with the strongest evidence of reducing alcohol misuse and related harms are:
- Regulating alcohol outlet density
- Minimum legal purchase age
- Limiting days or hours of sales
- Increasing alcohol taxes
- Minimum pricing
- Limiting alcohol advertising and marketing
- Dram shop (commercial host) liability laws
Learn about your state’s underage drinking prevention efforts and laws ― by reading your state’s report.
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