{"id":685197,"date":"2026-07-11T00:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685197\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T00:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:55:13","slug":"one-in-eight-drinking-above-recommended-weekly-alcohol-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685197\/","title":{"rendered":"One in eight drinking above recommended weekly alcohol limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/316568-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture Credit: Pixabay<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            It comes as addiction charity Motiv8 says it continues to see increased referrals over alcohol use\n        <\/p>\n<p>One in eight people who responded to a recent survey on health and wellbeing on the Island said they were drinking above the recommended weekly limit of 14 units of alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>The director of public health says those in the 35 to 44 age bracket are displaying the highest risk drinking.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the\u00a0head of an addiction charity says it continues to see growing numbers of people being referred for support over alcohol use.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Motiv8 saw 7,500 total attendances for alcohol, and over 700 referrals.<\/p>\n<p>This week is Alcohol Awareness Week, and Public Health is encouraging Manx residents to consider a couple of days alcohol free each week, and alternatives to alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>Director of Public Health Dr Matt Tyrer and Thea Ozenturk from Motiv8 have been discussing the impact of alcohol on the Manx Health Matters podcast:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>                    More from Isle of Man News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture Credit: Pixabay It comes as addiction charity Motiv8 says it continues to see increased referrals over alcohol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[96,758,59,102,755,756,757,128,50,759,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-685197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}