alcohol

[CeCe37]

How long does alcohol stay in your system; for example if i had to take a urine test....how long would it stay if i had a drink the day before at 5pm and stop at 11pm?

[homedeeth]

your liver will process alcohol at 1 unit per hour. If you were drinking pints of bog standard lager at 2 units a pint from 5-11pm then you will have consumed 8 units.
Your body will then take 8 hours to process the alcohol.
Be warned that if you are drinking stronger drinks, your body will take longer to process it overnight and YOU WILL STILL BE OVER THE LIMIT THE NEXT DAY!!!!!

[McNoodle]

People quote the above at every opportunity, and whilst factually correct, don't forget the six hours that you are actually drinking where the liver has time to break down at least 5 of those units...

[R1Geezer]

Homedeeth is of cours talking ********.

1 unit per hour is correct

so I drink 8 units in 6 hours.

6 of them are gone at 11pm I can drive home having in fact had only 1 pint. and the last one probably won't register anyway.

Do you think the body waits around for you to stop drinking before it processes anything? Why do you think you have several visits to the loo in a session. homedeeth what a plonker.

[joggerjayne]

If that is right, (how should I address thee, O great Lord of the Church of the Latter Day Geezer?) then I can drink one unit each hour for as long as I like, and still have only one unit left in me at the end.

Mind you, in what parallel Universe am I only going to drink one unit an hour? Hellllooooo, get real Jayne.

[R1Geezer]

yes my child you can drink one unit per hour purpetually and you would pass a breathalyser, however you'd probably fall asleep and that's a different problem! However you'd have to slow that down a bit for the holy Stella. Now go and worship at the holy shrine of the Geezer's Arms..

In all seriousness, that's why I think the DD limit is too high, you can drink a lot more than you think and be within the limit. The disipation factor is as stated but there is a cumalative fatigue that just isn't picked up by the breath test in the "purpetual" scenario.

[joggerjayne]

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[McNoodle]

Like I said...

[jen78]

A friend of mine used to have a rule of 5 hours plus one hour per unit drunk before he would drive.

[jen78]

Sorry, should have clarified, that starts after you stop drinking.

[doglady]

The best thing to do is not to drink any alcohol at all if you are planning to drive the same day.

[R1Geezer]

so another hysterically wrong numpty then eh jen?

[Ethel]

"According to Mark Bellis, professor of public health at Liverpool John Moores University, it is difficult to calculate how fast alcohol clears from the body.

�In theory it is one unit an hour, but the reality is that it varies according to sex, age and body mass.

�If you drink a considerable amount the night before there is a strong chance you will be over the limit the following morning."

[Ethel]

The night before he was stopped by police, Kev had sunk seven or eight pints of lager to celebrate with his footballing pals after they won a game.

He had no idea the drink would stay in his body for almost 19 hours.

"I woke up late and was in panic about getting to work on time," he said.

"I felt rough from drinking the night before but certainly didn't feel drunk.

"People don't realise they are still over the limit the morning after. Nor did I, till I got caught!"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/christmas /2003/12/drink_drive.shtml

[R1Geezer]

yes ethel it can happen but when talking about the masses we have no choice but to generalise on the averages and the 1 unit per hour is the average and it starts when drinking starts not when it finishes.