I always wondered about this...how long exactly does it take for alcohol to completely leave your system? I ask because I always end up drinking till late at parties, crashing, then driving out first thing in the morning. If I had been drinking a lot the night before, is there any way I would still have detectable BAC?
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/alcohol/alcohol_info7.shtml this calulates your BAC its 100% but its close
err are you serious? if your drnkning and partying till late then youll stil hav heaps enough alchohol the next morning.
Are you sure about that? I mean, that would be pretty bogus if you could get a DUI for driving at noon the day after a night of drinking...I'm only worried because I'm under 21, so ANY level of BAC will make me lose my license.
the amount of time your body metabolizes alcohol varies for each person, but generally, the liver can metabolize about 1 ounce of alcohol per hour, which is approximately 1 drink. so a average liver can metabolize 1 drink per hour. if you have more alcohol in your system, it becomes saturated and the alcohol is absorbed into the blood and body tissue until it can be metablozed in the liver. so yes, if you drink enough, you will still have alcohol come through on your BAC hours later after you have finished drinking. its not necessarily bogus that you can get a DUI for it, but sometimes it isn't fair. i've had a few nights of drinking were i was still getting drunk 10 hours after i stopped drinking. so, just be careful, its the risk we all take with underage drinking.
damn i dont even know how many times Ive been still trashed when i wake up in the morning after like a short nap (lol) and had to drive to work... i would say theres a good chance your still drunk lol.. and if your drunk then you probably would still get like a dwi, especially if your under 21
Yes, my sister had this problem once when she drank two 22's and fell asleep for a few hours. On her way to work the next morning she hit a parked car and got a DWI, blowing a .13.
And even if you BAL was nearly normal, many tests have shown that driving AFTER a night of heavy drinking you are as impaired as if you as much as actually having an illegal BAL. As someone who doesn't drink, it pisses me off that there are people on the road on Sunday morning who might hit me and my kids and kill us, because they are hung over and just as impaired as if they were still drunk. Let someone else drive if you are impaired. In some states you don't even have to have an illegal BAL, just being impaired is enough. I don't know how they inforce this, and I am sure it is selectively enforced, (which I disagree with) but please be responsible when you drink. You need a Designated Driver, even when you are hung over or still drunk the next day, OK? (Hey, if I knew you, I would do it.)
driving under the influence of alchohol is definately a stupid thing to do. why the hell is it bogus to get a dui at twelve noon the next day if youd been drinkning till the early hours of that morning?
if ya take plenty of extra thiamine (vit B1) you may be able to tweak up the turnover rate for ethanol & its metabolites... durk & sandy have some formulas in their big book _life extension_ & i think they may have been involved in marketing a vitamin/amino acid pill for working on fixing "the day after" while it's still "the night before" --- stuff was called "party pill" i think...
Normally, a healthy adult of 70-80kgs body weight eliminates 0.15-0.2 promilles of blood-alcohol per hour (that´s approx. 0.2l of wine or 0.3l of beer), but the elimination process becomes slower, the nearer you get to zero.
