Perhaps
you’ve tried to do something about your drinking before
– but never really succeeded in maintaining change?
A self-help correspondence program, Changing the Mix, is now
available for veterans, peacekeepers or ADF personnel who
would like to change their drinking habits. It is a new way
to help you cut down or cut out your drinking but it uses
proven methods.
Changing the Mix will help you build a tool kit of ways to
change your drinking habits yourself. Importantly, you will
learn ways to help maintain that change.
For many ADF members, responsible alcohol use is part of an
enjoyable and generally healthy lifestyle that includes good
diet and exercise habits.
There is evidence that low levels of alcohol consumption contribute
health benefits for some people. However, people who regularly
drink alcohol at higher levels place themselves at increased
risk of a range of harms and these harms also have broader
social and economic implications for families, workplaces
and the community as a whole.
Changing your drinking can make you feel healthier and get
more out of your life and relationships.
Over 10 weeks of the program you will receive regular packages
of information and material for you to work through. A drinking
diary will help you to keep track of how you are going.
If you live in a remote area and need help with your drinking,
this program could be ideal for you.
Changing the Mix is being conducted in partnership with the
Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA), the University
of Queensland and the ADF.
When you join the program, your details will remain strictly
confidential. The information that is provided by participants
will remain within the DVA project team.
The University of Queensland will receive de-identified data
that does not contain any names or addresses. The results
of this program will be published as an evaluation report,
however it will not contain any individual data nor will it
identify any individual.
