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.

For further information please contact Angela Grant, ADP Development Officer, Health Promotion Department, tel. 01851 762021 or email: angela.adp@nhs.net