The Alcohol Free Day is a date established by patients who were rehabilitating their addiction to alcohol and decided, in Spain, to celebrate a day of reflection on the consequences of their consumption, a celebration that It was marked on November 15. The World Health Organization (WHO) has been asked to recognize it as World Alcohol Free Day, with the clear objective of making people around the world aware of the physical and psychological damage that its consumption produces in our body, with more of 3 million attributable deaths and more than 200 related diseases, according to the WHO itself.
In Spain, the Ministry of Health created in 2020 a working group in charge of reviewing the current recommendations on alcohol consumption and updating the Low-Risk Drinking Limits for Alcoholwith the aim of reducing health problems, injuries, damage to third parties and social and economic consequences of this consumption.
with the main conclusions and with the new limits of the average consumption of low risk of alcohol that are situated at 20g/day for men and 10g/day for women, have developed technical documents and infographics for professionals and the general population. Likewise, they have promoted campaigns such as Don’t miss anything, reduce your alcohol consumption.
in aragoncontinuing with the alcohol consumption prevention interventions of previous years, in 2022 actions of
research and continuity aimed at environmental prevention and risk reduction in the context of nightlife. The objective of the framework program that is being carried out is to have sufficient data to develop an effective, effective and efficient multi-component quality prevention program to reduce the harm associated with alcohol consumption.
As every year, we prepare a report “Day Without Alcohol. Activities and data in Aragon”. This report that collects the most significant data on alcohol consumption and the preventive and risk reduction activities carried out by the Specialized Addiction Programs (PEA) in our autonomous community. In the press conference held this November 15, the contents and first results of the study carried out in the context of nightlife have also been detailed.
Link to the Alcohol Free Day Presentation in PDF format 11/15/22.
Link to the press conference on YouTube
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