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April 2024 Raise Your Glass for Alcohol Education and Awareness Newsletter
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Come On and Raise Your Glass … For Alcohol Education!
It’s not what you might be thinking: We certainly aren’t recommending that you imbibe any alcohol; but we do recommend you raise one of our alcohol education glasses!
With the prevalence of alcohol in society, it's especially important to educate about the dangers of alcohol abuse whilst teaching drinkers to limit their alcohol units.
Alcohol abuse is a major worldwide health threat, resulting in more than 3 million deaths each year, a number which represents more than 5 percent of all deaths. In 2021, more than 9,000 deaths in the UK were registered from alcohol-specific causes, making alcohol abuse a leading cause of preventable death. Alcohol abuse contributes to more than 200 diseases and injury-related conditions, resulting in negative physical, behavioural, social, legal, and financial consequences.
Alcohol is readily available, so it may be easy to forget that alcohol is a drug, and, for many people, alcohol is clearly the drug of choice.
When viewers raise one of the glasses in our What Is a Unit? Display, they’ll see how much of the beverage is a single unit of alcohol as well as how many total units of alcohol are in the glass. For many viewers, it’s a major reality check to learn that the amount of liquid in their alcohol glass often contains multiple alcohol units!
The display features durable plastic models of a cocktail containing 3.5 alcohol units, a pint of ordinary strength beer containing 2 alcohol units, a 175-ml glass of 12% wine containing 2 alcohol units, a whisky containing 4 alcohol units, and a 330-ml alcopop with 1.5 alcohol units. The included display mat explains what a unit is and provides recommended alcohol limits.
So,how much alcohol is too much? According to the Chief Medical Officers’ guidelines: To minimise health risks, you should not drink more than 14 units of alcohol per week. If you consume up to 14 units of alcohol per week, it is best to spread your drinking over three or more days.
Drunk & Dangerous™ Beverage Set
Raise the plastic beer mug, glass of wine, or martini in the Drunk & Dangerous Beverage Set, and viewers will get startling alcoholic proof of the reality of what can happen if they drink and drive.
Each plastic glass contains a model of a smashed car suspended in simulated alcohol, representing a potential outcome of driving under the influence of alcohol. The plastic alcohol glasses serve as a great way to promote discussion about the devastating, life-altering consequences that can occur when drink-drivers get behind the wheel.
Drunk & Dangerous™ Package (With Glasses or Goggles)
Why not raise a plastic champagne glass to drive home the lessons of drink-driving even further?
A set of five plastic champagne glasses comes with our Drunk & Dangerous Remote Control Car, which is available on its own or as part of our complete alcohol education Drunk & Dangerous Package (With Goggles) or (With Glasses). With each package, students wear the vision-impairing Drunk & Dangerous Glasses or DW Eyes Goggles (each which re-creates the visual distortion, loss of perception, and lack of control that impair drink-drivers) as they attempt to steer the remote control car through an obstacle course created by setting up the five plastic champagne glasses as traffic pylons. Students quickly learn that alcohol intoxication affects perception and coordination, making them a danger to themselves and others if they attempt to drive.
From 3-D models that highlight the physical dangers of alcohol abuse to comprehensive alcohol education folding displays and activities, Health Edco has a wide range of engaging teaching tools to promote alcohol awareness. Find the perfect materials to meet your group’s need in our website’s section dedicated to alcohol education materials and activities.
The information contained in this newsletter is not intended to replace the advice of a healthcare professional.
