{"id":1123,"date":"2019-12-09T21:06:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T21:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codetrauma.shared2.leeroy.ca\/?page_id=1123"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:09:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:09:58","slug":"alcohol","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.codetrauma.com\/en\/prevention\/alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol and Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Drinking alcohol increases your risk of a severe injury.\u00a0 It decreases your ability to protect yourself in the event of an incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1357\" src=\"https:\/\/codetrauma.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2019\/12\/broken-win-glass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Are you at risk?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Should you stop or reduce your alcohol consumption?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Find out with this <a href=\"https:\/\/codetrauma.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2025\/12\/Alcohol-and-trauma-risk-2025-ENG-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brochure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1>Low-risk drinking recommendations<\/h1>\n<h2>At least 2 days\/week you don\u2019t drink<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Women:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not drink more than 2 standard drinks \/ day<\/li>\n<li>Do not drink more than 10 standard drinks \/ week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Men:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not drink more than 3 standard drinks \/ day<\/li>\n<li>Do not drink more than 15 standard drinks \/ week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>SOMETIMES, EVEN 1 OR 2 DRINKS CAN BE TOO MANY DRINKS:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>When you\u2019re driving or operating machinery<\/li>\n<li>When you take certain medications or drugs<\/li>\n<li>If you have certain medical conditions<\/li>\n<li>If you do not have control when you drink<\/li>\n<li>If you are pregnant or breastfeeding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is a standard drink?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One glass of beer \u2013 341 ml \/ 12 oz (5% alcohol)<\/li>\n<li>One glass of wine \u2013 142 ml \/ 5 oz (12% alcohol)<\/li>\n<li>One glass of fortified wine \u2013 85 ml \/ 3 oz (20% alcohol)<\/li>\n<li>One glass of spirit \u2013 43 ml \/ 1,5 oz (40% alcohol)<\/li>\n<li>Two glasses of cider \u2013 140 ml \/ 5 oz (6% alcohol)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Resources<\/h2>\n<p>Pavillon Foster \u2013 <a href=\"tel:5144861304\">514 486-1304<\/a><br \/>\n\u00c9duc\u2019alcool \u2013 <a href=\"tel:5148757454\">514 875-7454<\/a><br \/>\nAl-Anon &amp; Alateen \u2013 <a href=\"tel:5148669803\">514 866-9803<\/a><br \/>\nAlcoholics Anonymous (AA) \u2013 <a href=\"tel:5143769230\">514 350-3444<\/a><br \/>\nCentre Dollard-Cormier \u2013 <a href=\"tel:5143851232\">514 385-1232<\/a><br \/>\nMaison Jean Lapointe \u2013 <a href=\"tel:5142882611\">514 288-2611<\/a><br \/>\nMAAD \u2013 <a href=\"tel:5146556233\">514 655-MADD (6233)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, reach out to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Montreal General Hospital \u2013 University Health Centre<br \/>\nMcGill: Trauma and Injury Prevention Program<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tara Grenier, M.Sc., CAT(C)<\/strong><br \/>\nTrauma Injury Prevention Coordinator<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:codetrauma@muhc.mcgill.ca\">codetrauma@muhc.mcgill.ca<\/a><br \/>\n514 934-1934 (ext. 42324)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cusm.ca\/trauma\">www.cusm.ca\/trauma<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drinking alcohol increases your risk of a severe injury.\u00a0 It decreases your ability to protect yourself in the event of an incident. &nbsp; &nbsp; Are you at risk? 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Find out with this brochure &nbsp; Low-risk drinking recommendations At least 2 days\/week you don\u2019t drink Women: Do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":744,"parent":58,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"single.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1123","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alcohol and Trauma - Code Trauma<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.codetrauma.com\/en\/prevention\/alcohol\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alcohol and Trauma - Code Trauma\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Drinking alcohol increases your risk of a severe injury.\u00a0 It decreases your ability to protect yourself in the event of an incident. &nbsp; &nbsp; Are you at risk? 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