Would you like to know
how your drinking compares to other Canadians?
Take this simple test to find out.
1 What was your drinking like during a typical week in the past year?
List roughly how many drinks you have on each day of a typical week and
add up the total:
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
TOTAL
Be sure to estimate the number of "standard" drinks you usually
have (it is important when you compare your drinking to other Canadians).
Each of the drinks on the chart below have the same amount of alcohol
in them and will all affect you in the same way.
One standard drink is:
12 oz. Beer (5% alcohol)
5 oz. Wine (10-12% alcohol)
3 oz. Fortified Wine (16-18% alcohol)
1.5 oz. Liquor (40% alcohol)
(1.5 oz. overproof liquor is about two standard drinks)
2 Now compare your weekly total to that of other Canadians
How does your weekly average compare? Look at the pie charts below to
find where your drinking fits with the rest of the adult population. For
example, if you are a male who drinks 15 standard drinks per week, you
drink more alcohol than 90 per cent of other men in Canada do.
3 Risky drinking
A recent national survey looked at how much people drank in a week and
how their drinking was affecting different areas of their lives. People
were asked about their physical health, outlook on life, friends/social
life, relationships with their spouses or partners and children, home
life, financial position and work or studies. Not surprisingly, the results
showed that the more people drank in a week, the greater the chance that
the drinking was affecting more and more areas of their lives.
How likely are you to have problems as a result of your drinking? Look
at the chart below to see where you fit.
Chance of negative consequences related to number of drinks per week
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