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Alcoholism: Dry January is “very beneficial for the pocket, for the body and for the brain”, explains the president of the French Federation of Addictology
Alcoholism: Dry January is “very beneficial for the pocket, for the body and for the brain”, explains the president of the French Federation of Addictology – (franceinfo)
As Dry January approaches, or January without alcohol, Amine Benyamina, head of the psychiatry and addictology department at Paul-Brousse hospital and president of the French Federation of Addictology, is the guest of the 12 /13 info, Thursday December 14.
53 addictologists are calling on the government to pursue a prevention policy on the risks linked to alcohol and inviting the French to participate in Dry January, a month of January without alcohol. Amine Benyamina, head of the psychiatry and addictology department at the Paul-Brousse hospital in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne) and president of the French Federation of Addictology, is one of them. Guest of 12/13 info, Thursday December 14, he explains that this one-month alcohol break is “very beneficial for the pocket, for the body and for the brain”, but also “for the society”. But above all, it allows you to break “the regular cycle of almost automatic alcohol consumption”explains Amine Benyamina.
42,000 deaths every year
Addictologists took advantage of Dry January to ask the Ministry of Health to join the event by proposing a real prevention campaign. “The idea is to introduce an important concept, provide information and allow freedom of choice”declares Amine Benyamina, after recalling that alcohol consumption in France is normalized, although it causes 42,000 deaths every year.
