Advice and Information

NHS Choices about Drinking Alcohol

NHS Choices provides advice on cutting down and sensible drinking levels and has a number of interactive tools to calculate alcohol units and assess your drinking levels and track your drinking over time:

• Desk top alcohol tracker (drinks diary)
• An iPhone drinks tracker
• An alcohol unit calculator
• It also has a useful section for parents on “talking to under 18’s”

Change 4 life - choose less booze

Choose less booze is one of a number of sections on this site to help make positive lifestyle changes.

It has a range of easy to use tools to help you do this including:

• A drinks checker tool to see how much alcohol you are drinking
• Free drink tracker app to download
• Easy drink swaps advice
• Advice on units  

Drinkaware Trust

This contains a variety of information, tips and tools about alcohol and sensible drinking.

There is a section called MyDrinkaware which you can sign up to. This is a personal diary that helps you track your alcohol units, calories and costs.

FRANK

The national drugs helpline FRANK is a good place to start if you just want information about different drugs and alcohol, their effects and UK law. It runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week providing free and confidential advice and information.

You can phone FRANK on 0300 123 6600 or email or text – you don’t need to give your real name.

More details are on the FRANK website