Choose Well

Reducing the harmful use of alcohol is one of the five action areas for health promotion in PEI. Drinking more than 7 standard alcohol drinks per week is closely linked to several types of cancer (e.g., liver, breast, colorectal), liver disease, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes, along with preventable injuries and community harms, such as interpersonal, domestic and family violence and motor vehicle accidents.

Did you know?

  • In 2019, almost 1 in 5 Islanders (19%) drank above the low-risk weekly limits in Canada's Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines. 
  • This harmful use of alcohol carries significant economic costs
  • Alcohol-related harms are the leading cost of substance-use-related harms in PEI.
  • Alcohol-related harms cost PEI $131 million in healthcare and criminal justice costs, lost productivity and other direct costs (47% of the total costs of substance-related harms), and cause almost 7,000 emergency room visits and 135 deaths per year.