IMO there is more drug drivers than drunk drivers.note I said drunk not drink there should be zero tolerance
Para, a general guide from Drinkaware is that your body disposes of alcohol at a rate of one unit per hour counting from your last drink so if you have 10x330 ml bottles of strong lager (16 units) and your last drink is midnight your body will be clear of alcohol at 16.00hrs the next day. I never have a drink when I have the car, but it frightens me the next day when I am over the limit for driving, but stupidly still do.
Not that I am aware of, you may be correct but, I used to deliver the Drinkaware programme and it just included the guide of one unit per hour counting from your last drink.
Hold on, am i missing something here? From your last drink you say. But what say, you drink one unit every hour, does that mean by the 3rd hour, your body has disposed of the first unit?
No, it's just a guide, but you need to count from the time of your last drink, then one hour for every unit of alcohol consumed.
Bare with me here, i'm not trying to wind you up. So you are saying, i can have a good drink of 12 pints, from 12-12, get up at 7 and still be over the limit? Now i'm finding this hard to believe, cos what has happened to the booze from the previous 12 hours? Sounds a load of codswallop, sorry.
If this has proved anything it's that they need to be clearer and educate us on it first off. Why change the rules when no ****er knows what the rule is to begin with.
As I said, its a general guide and varies from person to person, but in your example you would be miles over the drink drive limit, over 35 years ago my mates brother got done and lost his licence driving to work the morning after a session. Northumbria Police advertise a campaign every December and it includes breathalysing morning after drivers. Edit: Just remembered what I used to deliver, your body can only start to process alcohol after you stop drinking alcohol.
Actually this is very true. No ****er has any idea, i started it, slating it, then had folks on about how long it takes to clear your body. None of us has a clue, from myself who is against it, to the folks telling us, how long it takes. Not a clue, between us all.
You are probably right Comm, a lot of the published guidance is weighted to scare, but this is an interesting bit of advice to students: How does alcohol move through the body? Once swallowed, a drink enters the stomach and small intestine, where small blood vessels carry it to the bloodstream. Approximately 20% of alcohol is absorbed through the stomach and most of the remaining 80% is absorbed through the small intestine. Alcohol is metabolized by the liver, where enzymes break down the alcohol. Understanding the rate of metabolism is critical to understanding the effects of alcohol. In general, the liver can process one ounce of liquor (or one standard drink) in one hour. If you consume more than this, your system becomes saturated, and the additional alcohol will accumulate in the blood and body tissues until it can be metabolized. This is why having a lot of shots or playing drinking games can result in high blood alcohol concentrations that last for several hours. http://www.brown.edu/Student_Servic...&_other_drugs/alcohol/alcohol_&_your_body.php
But apart from my liver being shot to pieces. do you or can you become accustomed to alcohol? After the best part of 10 years here, can your body become used to it, or is it all a deception?
