Dry November calls on Hungarian women to quit drinking for a month

This November, the Hungarian Blue Point Foundation organises their annual Dry November for the third time. The foci of this year’s campaign are women and their alcohol consumption. Alcohol is extremely unhealthy for everyone, but it can be much more dangerous to women than men, Index.hu reports.

Kék Pont Alapítvány (Blue Point Foundation) is a public benefit company that was founded in 1996. Blue Point “provides comprehensive and coordinated healthcare, social and legal services for psychoactive substance users”. They started their Dry November Campaign three years ago. The campaign aims to raise awareness of the dangers of alcohol consumption, like how frequent consumption can lead to substance abuse and various health problems.

Drinking has long been a serious issue in Hungary, as we are one of the heaviest drinkers in Europe. Another chart that we are leading, for example, is the No. of teenagers who have been drunk at least twice at the age of 15. We are No. 1 with boys and No. 3 with girls.

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The rules of the campaign are very simple: if you would like to participate in Dry November, all you have to do is quit drinking alcohol for the whole month.

You can read about last year’s Dry November below:

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The campaign seems to achieve its goal.

Last year, ELTE asked people who took part in Dry November to complete a survey (unfortunately, not all Dry November participants completed the survey, so the statistics do not represent everyone who participated, only those who filled out the survey).