diminishes your ability to make a correct decision once a hazard is identified.diminishes your ability to identify hazards.
the remainder, about 90%, must be slowly eliminated by your liver through oxidationĪlcohol adversely affects your ability to drive by effecting your judgment, awareness, vision and reaction time.
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less than 10% is eliminated by kidneys, lungs and skin. only 2 to 5% is passed unchanged by body functions. When you take a drink, the alcohol is absorbed into the linings of the stomach and small intestine and is promptly disseminated by the bloodstream to parts of the body, including the brain.Ībout 5% of the alcohol you consume is absorbed in your mouth and throat and 95% is absorbed in the digestive system.Īlcohol cannot be retained in your body's tissue without serious health effects. There is typically the same amount of alcohol in a twelve ounce can of beer, a five ounce glass of wine, and a drink containing one shot (1 1/4 ounce) of an 80-proof distilled spirit. Death can result from this level of intoxication.īeer can exceed 5% alcohol, wine is typically 12% alcohol, and distilled spirits are typically at least 40% alcohol. When a person consumes 12 drinks, he or she could reach a BAC level as high as 0.5%. Violate her laws, such as taking too much of a poison, and her justice is swift, sure, and final.Ġ.05% BAC : Euphoric, relaxed and congenial.Ġ.07% BAC : Talkative, excited and sociable.Ġ.10% BAC : Uncoordinated, slurred speech and loss of inhibitions.Ġ.12% BAC : Unrestrained behavior, lack of control and loss of judgment.Ġ.20% BAC : Loss of alertness, drowsiness and lethargy.Ġ.40% BAC : Suppression of respiratory function, erratic heartbeat-can be fatal.Ġ.50% BAC : Death is very likely to occur. Legal limits are important for law enforcement, but Mother Nature doesn't needs police and judges. You feel happy, euphoric, and capable of things that you can't actually do - like drive a car. The reality is that, being drunk means that you have overdosed on a poison! Your body, brain, and nervous system are now beginning to do a shut-down.īecause of its' effect on the "pleasure center" of the brain, you don't FEEL like you have overdosed. This shows just how poisonous alcohol is! But, this is just a "measuring stick". Expressed as an actual ratio, this means that you have 8/10 ths of a drop of alcohol, for every 1,000 drops of blood in your body! 08% is considered to be a "drunk" rating. Do you remember high school chemistry class, and using an alcohol burner to heat test tubes and chemicals?Ĭommonly, drunk is defined as your Blood Alcohol Concentration "BAC." This refers to a ratio of alcohol-to-blood.Ĭharts are often used to "show" this BAC, but it is seldom actually explained. How many other things can you think of, in your daily life, that you purposefully drink or eat, that catches fire easily?Īlcohol is a hydro-carbon compound, not unlike gasoline or kerosene. It does this in a sequence of events, beginning with the brain's ability to perform judgment, and to control the emotions.Īs you continue to drink, alcohol continues to shut down the nervous system, eventually to the point where the brain can no longer control body functions.like breathing!Īlcohol is also listed as a flammable substance, meaning that it catches fire rather easily. This means that alcohol, immediately after drinking even one drink, begins to work on shutting down the nervous system. College courses in Medecine, such as Ramapo College, teach another basic about alcohol: it is a Central Nervous System depressant. The poison is already in the bloodstream, and NOT in the stomach. 
This is the brain's signal to the body to get rid of the poison. One of the first signs is the need to vomit. However, alcohol ACTS as a stimulant, under low dosages, and the drinker feels "good" and seldom feels the effects of being poisoned.until too late. The slow destruction of various body organs, the destruction of brain cells, and the deterioration of motor skills, should show any drinker a need for cautious ingestion of alcohol. It has the ability to make you feel good WHILE it is killing you. Toxicology charts list alcohol as a poison, and a deadly one.
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