Drinking too much….Do You?
Rely on alcohol to deal with everyday life? e.g. to help give you confidence?
Drink at odd times? e.g. when you wake up
Drink when you’re alone?
Hide your drinking from others?
Miss school, college or work because you’re drunk or hungover?
Get yourself into risky situations? e.g. unsafe sex, fights.
Regularly have blackouts from drinking? Can’t remember the night before?
Feel irritable with friends and family?
Keep saying things you later regret?
Take lots of aspirin or pain killers or more alcohol to deal with hangovers?
For alcohol-related advice and help go to:
In Camden:
020 7445 8516/8534/8535
Email: sensible.drinking@camdenpct.nhs.uk
Provide information and advice on alcohol. You can ask a question, request a ‘sensible drinking pack’ to be sent out to you or book an appointment to see one an Alcohol Advisors through your GP. The service can help you look at ways to improve your health and wellbeing through managing your alcohol intake and provide support to cut back and make changes to your drinking habits.
General web links:
http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/
This site includes facts, tip and tools on how to deal with alcohol problems.
Youth Information’s alcohol advice page
http://www.youthinformation.com/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=90278
This page offers advice on alcohol problems specifically for young people.
Problems with drugs…Do You?
Use drugs to help you cope with bad feelings?
Use drugs to help you cope with everyday life?
Withdraw from friends and family?
Have frequent outbursts of anger?
Feel like you’re losing interest in college, work or life in general?
Think you’re losing weight?
Have little interest in looking after yourself?
For more information and advice go to:
Provides advice and information about drugs in general and giving up drugs.
You can talk to someone about the difficulties drugs have caused you – free, 24 hrs confidential.
www.knowcannabis.org.uk
Provides information about cannabis and advice on cutting down.
www.smokefree.nhs.uk
Provides free advice and support on giving up and where to find help in your area (there are more details in the Drugs and Alcohol parts of the Get Help section).
Drugs and alcohol can…
Make you feel paranoid
Give you false confidence
Be a way of dealing with negative feelings
Lead to anxiety
Lead to depression
Make you lose control
Affect your memory and concentration
Give you a high….which is often followed by a low
Other Options
For more advice and information use the Get Help menu on the right of every page on the main menu or talk to your Doctor/GP. They don’t just hand out medication but may be able to advise you and refer you to a local service.
Also check out this useful guide on alcohol: http://www.ntw.nhs.uk/pic/leaflets/Alcohol%20and%20you.pdf
The more feedback we get about what’s good and what’s not, the better we can make this site for everyone.