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1^ The SADHS classifies ‘responsible’ drinking among men as less than 4 drinks on one occasion, ‘hazardous’ drinking as 4-6 drinks and ‘harmful’ drinking as more than 6 drinks. For women, the thresholds are less than 2 drinks, 2-4 drinks and more than 4 respectively. It should be noted that units are not widely used in South Africa. Instead a ‘standard drink’ is 12g of pure alcohol (n.b in the UK this is 8g and in the US 14g). Weekly guidelines in South Africa are to not exceed 252g for men and 168g for women (n.b. in the UK this is 168g/112g and in the US 196g/98g). These figures demonstrate, if anything, the ‘impure science’ (Epstein, 1998) of risk calculations with respect to alcohol consumption.