Dealing with hidden drinking problems

Remember

• A standard drink contains 10 grams of alcohol.
• The NHMRC recommended limits for safe drinking are up to four standard drinks a day for men and up to two for women, with two alcohol-free days each week. Above these limits is considered hazardous drinking.
• Over six drinks a day for a man and over four drinks a day for a woman is considered harmful.
• More damaging still is dependent drinking. Alcohol dependence is common, affecting 5% of Australian men and 2% of women. Many of these alcohol dependent people are superficially unremarkable.
• If it looks like a drinking problem and it smells like a drinking problem, then it is one.