Alcohol treatment in Quebec

Quebec has had a lot of problems in terms of alcoholism and alcohol abuse. There have been a lot of instances where people needed help in order to get over their alcohol addiction. There are a lot of alcohol treatments in Quebec to help people of different ages who are at different stages of addiction. There are 138 drug and alcohol treatments and support groups in Quebec. This number only represents the English speaking alcohol treatments. If one is looking for a French speaking alcohol treatment, there are many more options available. People of Quebec can get help with the alcohol treatments.

Quebec Alcohol Statistics

In 2003, there was a study done on the population of the Quebec province. It found that 85 per cent of the population were current drinkers. There were a little more men than women that drank (88 per cent and 82 per cent). Those numbers were higher than they were 5 years prior by 4 per cent. It also found that 31.8 per cent of the population would drink twice or more every week. In this context, there were way more men than women (40.8 per cent compared to 22.5 per cent). There were 6.6 per cent more people drinking frequently than 2 years prior.

There were 39.5 per cent of the population of Quebec over 15 years old admitted to binge drinking during the last year. This means that 48.2 per cent of the men and 28.9 per cent of the females have drunk 5 drinks or more in one single sitting. This actually equals to over two million people. This is a lot of people destroying their liver and other such organs. Most of the people who binge drink are between the age of 20 and 24 years old. And the rates of binge drinking go down as age increases. There were also 1.9 per cent of the Quebec population who were addicted to alcohol. Quebec is one of the provinces with the lowest rates when it comes to people being at risk of getting dependent on alcohol. There were 2.9 per cent of men and 1 per cent of women who are alcoholics. But those are just the known cases, because there are a lot of people who don’t necessarily know that they are addicted to alcohol.

Alcohol within students in Quebec

In 2004, there was a study which showed that 63.5 per cent of the high school students (between 12 and 17 years old) were current drinkers. The average age where one starts drinking in Quebec is 13.9 years old. This is a very young age compared to other provinces and it is also illegal to drink at this age. And not only is it the average age for first drink, it is also the average age for people to start drinking alcohol regularly. This is  very unfortunate because a lot of people will go on drinking alcohol for the rest of their lives and so have more chances of becoming addicted to alcohol.