Drug & Alcohol Awareness Sessions

The Health Promotion Department (Uists team) have delivered a number of sessions to young people at Liniclate School on the Isle of Benbecula recently.

The sessions covered featured:

  • what is a unit of alcohol
  • how size is an important factor in considering how much you can safely drink.
  • alcohol by volume
  • what the safe limit for drinking is
  • how the liver is the organ that processes most alcohol from the body and how long it takes to process this.
  • how to stay safe
  • highlighting the law.