e-alcohol screening and brief intervention (e-SBI)
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- Keep it up! Staying alcohol free is the first step to a healthy life.
- Try to drink less or abstain for preventing cancer and other diseases. Let’s download “Drink or NOT DRINK? Be Informed if you drink” Booklet to know more about alcohol harms.
- If you drink, limit to 2 alcohol units for men and 1 for women on any drinking day, and minimise the frequency of your drinking by having more alcohol-free days. Click here to find out how many alcohol units your drinks contain.
- In some situations, even small amounts of alcohol per day would present risks to you or others. Never drink, if you have medical conditions, are taking medications, operating a vehicle or machinery, are pregnant, or are underage.
- You are at increased risk of harming your health as a result of drinking. Let’s download “Drink or NOT DRINK? Be Informed if you drink” Booklet to know more about alcohol harms.
- To prevent future health problems, you should cut down or stop drinking. Let’s download “How You Can Change Your Drinking Habits: A Self-Help Booklet” This self-help booklet gives you practical steps and tips to help you start making a change.
- If you have any concern about your drinking and health, please talk to your doctor.
- You drinking is causing significant damage to your physical and mental health. Let’s download “Drink or NOT DRINK? Be Informed if you drink” Booklet to know more about alcohol harms.
- It is best to cut down your drinking. Let’s download “How You Can Change Your Drinking Habits to Reduce Health Risk: A Self-Help Booklet”. This self-help booklet gives you practical steps and tips to help you start making a change.
- If you find it hard and can’t cut down on your own, seek help from medical professionals or community resources to help you quit.
- Your drinking is already causing you many problems and you could be alcohol dependent.
- You should definitely quit your drinking step by step under the help of professionals. However, to avoid withdrawal symptoms from alcohol (such as tremors, sweating, nausea, vomiting, poor appetite, anxiety, insomnia, mental confusion), you should NOT suddenly stop drinking completely on your own.
- You should ask your doctor for referral to specialist for more evaluation and treatment.
- You can also join the Pilot Alcohol Cessation Counselling Service subsidised by the Department of Health, or contact some community resources for help.
- You tend to binge drink (i.e. consumption of 5 or more alcoholic drinks in a row), even occasionally, which is dangerous and harmful, as it increases the immediate risk of alcohol poisoning and accidental injury. Try hard to limit your drinking.
You can…
- Know more about alcohol harms
- Download "DRINK or NOT DRINK? Be informed if you drink!" Education Pamphlet
- Download “How You Can Change Your Drinking Habits to Reduce Health Risk: A Self-Help Booklet”
- Look for tips to cut down
- Creating your habit breaking plan
- Keeping your drinking diary for tracking progress
- Alcohol unit calculator
- Getting help
- Retake the test
Disclaimer
This questionnaire does not provide a diagnosis of alcohol dependence or any other medical condition. The information provided by this questionnaire cannot replace a full evaluation by a healthcare professional, and should only be used as a reference. Click here for professional help.
The Department of Health makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or reliability of the information contained in this questionnaire or the fitness of such information for any particular use.