During the craziness of Orientation Week, Newcastle Uni students had a speaker talk to us about the Australian drinking culture. Chris Raine shared his experiences about overcoming the pressures of drinking just to get drunk and the organization he founded called Hello Sunday Morning.
In this excerpt from the website, Raine describes the origin of HSM:
It all started with a hangover. In 2008 Chris Raine, a 22 year-old from Brisbane, woke up after a night of heavy drinking and read that Australia’s national binge drinking culture (a culture that he was very much a part of) cost the country over $15 billion and was responsible for the death of over 260 young Australians, each year.
Raine gave up drinking for the entire year of 2009-an amazing acomplishment. What Raine is doing shows that you don't have to be swept up in the binge drinking stigma that Australia has.
Cheers for now,
Kim
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