Sign up to Dry July and join the Aspen Medical team
- Challenge yourself to experience life without drink for one month
- Save money
- Feel healthy and alert
- Sleep better
- Lose weight
- Support your colleagues. It’s fun to do things as a team
- Raise money for Cancer research
Our 2024 Dry July Team are:
Joanne Pollock
Amelda Keys
Tam Hennesy
Susan Pacey
Dean Haley
Lesley Rawlings
Dayle Matthews
Mena Biscotti
Rachel Pringle
See the Dashboard: Aspen Medical Dry July Dashboard
I want to be a Team Member: Sign Up – Dry July 2024
Why does the Dry July Foundation support cancer research?
- Because alcohol is a Group 1 Carcinogen
- Contributes to 7 different types of cancer
- Mouth
- Oesophagus
- Larynx
- Pharynx
- Breast
- Bowel
- Liver
- 3500 Australian’s are diagnosed with alcohol caused cancer each year
(Cancer references above: Western Australia Department of Mental Health, alcoholthinkagain.com.au)
Make a donation & support the Aspen Medical team: Donate to Cancer Research on Dry July 2024
Mocktail Party
To kick off Dry July, on 28 June we are replacing Friday afternoon drinks in Canberra and Brisbane offices with delicious mocktails and a range of non-alcoholic drinks and nibbles. We want to recruit team members to join our Dry July team.
- Mocktails, Drinks and Nibbles
- Sign up for Dry July (if that’s your thing)
- Sponsor your colleagues (if that’s your thing)
Images from Dry July website
Do you know Aspen Medical has its own mocktail?
Philip Jones, the Martini Whisperer, makes a special cocktail and mocktail to celebrate 20 years of Aspen Medical in the following video
Mixologist Video describing the Aspen Medical mocktail
Check out this great resource:
Statistically… 77% of Australian adults drink alcohol, and 1 in 3 who drink, do so at unhealthy levels (Australian Institute of Health & Welfare, 2022). So statistically… many of us could reap health benefits by small changes in our habits.
The resources and tools on this site are excellent, including the Drinking Audit. This five-minute questionnaire determines your alcohol use risk level;
Take The 5 Minute Drinking Audit | Alcohol Think Again
Canberra (Deakin) and Brisbane (Bowen Hills) Friday afternoon mocktail events.
