Resources

• Low-Risk Drinking Resources

• Research and Reports

• Related Websites

Low Risk Drinking Resources 

Print Materials

• LRDG print materials:

  • Brochure (2004): English [PDF] :: Français [PDF]
    PDFs of LRDG brochures in other languages

  • Tent Cards: English [PDF] :: Français [PDF]

  • Coasters: English [PDF] :: Français [PDF]

• LCBO's "The Mocktail Guide" - can be ordered at 1-800-ONT-LCBO or infoline@lcbo.com

• Publications from CAMH

Web-based Materials

• "Evaluate Your Drinking" online and brochure in English and French. CAMH
• Check Your Drinking screener, The Alcohol Help Centre
• "Having a Party? Great tips to lower your risks as a host" online and brochure in English and French. CAMH
• Alcohol: An Overview - includes a list of Recommended Readings. Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
• Cancer Prevention: Alcohol, Canadian Cancer Society
• Report Summary: Alcohol use increases cancer risk, Cancer Care Ontario (December, 2005)
• FOCUS Media Campaign on Alcohol as a Risk Factor for Stroke and Cancer, FOCUS Resource Centre
• Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention – Alcohol: The Low-Risk Drinking Guidelines, Heart and Stroke Foundation
• Online Risk Assessment, Heart and Stroke Foundation
• Toronto Cancer Prevention Coalition

Public Service Announcements

• Cover Letter Sent to PSA Directors of Ontario Radio Stations [PDF]

• PSA Scripts in English [PDF] and French [PDF].

Research and Reports

• Guidelines on Low-Risk Drinking, Recommendations of the LRDG Working Group

• Low-risk Drinking Guidelines: The Scientific Evidence [PDF], S. J. Bondy et al, Canadian Journal of Public Health, July-Aug. 1999

• Do Ontarians Drink in Moderation? A Baseline Assessment Against Canadian Low Risk Drinking Guidelines [PDF], S. J. Bondy et al, Canadian Journal of Public Health, July-Aug. 1999

• Review of Canadian Low-Risk Drinking Guidelines and Their Effectiveness [PDF], G. Walsh et al, Canadian Journal of Public Health, July-Aug 1998

• Recommendations on alcohol consumption, in "Lifestyle modifications to prevent and control hypertension", Supplement to Canadian Medical Association Journal, May 4, 1999; 160 (9 Suppl, Part 3) 

• Moderate Drinking and Health: Implications of Recent Evidence [PDF], M.J. Ashley et. al., Canadian Family Physician, Apr. 1997.

• Sober Reflections : Commerce, Public Health, and the Evolution of Alcohol Policy in Canada, 1980-2000, Norman Giesbrecht, 2006

• Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity: Research and Public Policy, Thomas Babor, Raul Caetano, Sally Casswell, and Griffith Edwards, 2003

• Preventing Harmful Substance Use: The evidence base for policy and practice, edited by Tim Stockwell, Paul Gruenewald, John Toumbourou, and Wendy Loxley, 2005

• Chronic Disease in Ontario and Canada: Determinants, Risk Factors and Prevention Priorities, Emma Haydon, Michael Roerecke, Norman Giesbrecht, Jürgen Rehm, and Marianne Kobus-Matthews, Prepared for the Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance and the Ontario Public Health Association, March 2006

• "Adolescent heavy episodic drinking trajectories and health in young adulthood.", Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 65, 204-212. Oesterle, S., Hill, K. G., Hawkins, J. D., Guo, J., Catalano, R. F., & Abbott, R. D. (2004)

Related Websites  

Refer also to our Endorsing Partners
listed on the left side of the screen.

• Alcohol Policy Network (APN)

  • APN's Key Contacts Database
  • Directory of Substance Abuse & Injury Prevention Contacts in Public Health

• Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa)

• Canadian Health Network (CHN)

• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

• Government of Ontario's Drug and Alcohol Registry of Treatment (DART)

• Health Canada

• Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada

• McLaughlin Addiction and Mental Health Information Centre Toll-free Information Line, 1-800-463-6273 (416-595-6111 in Toronto)

• Medline Plus Health Information, National Library of Medicine, US

• Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA)

  • "Public Health 411" Contacts Directory

• Parent Action on Drugs (PAD)

• Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)

• Public Health Units across Ontario

• World Health Organization (WHO)