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.
Looking to Reduce Alcohol Related Harms?
Personal health behaviours
Developing personal skills and modifying individual behaviours.
Looking to Reduce Alcohol in Your Community?
Creating supportive environments and community action
Strengthening community action, creating a sense of community belonging and fostering supportive environments.
Alcohol Policy and Legislation
Healthy Society
Healthy public policy, system-level change and improving health outcomes at a population level.
