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Drinking and the morning after: Test your knowledge Avoidd's MD
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Roger Singer posed the following brain teaser to delegates at the recent "Managing Occupational Road Risk" to highlight the potential dangers of residual alcohol in the body.
If you started drinking at 9pm at night and consumed a pint of lager, three glasses of wine and finished with a glass of whiskey how long would the alcohol remain in the body? Would it be: A: 3am B: 6arn C: llam D: 3pm The worrying answer, says Singer, is that they could ALL be correct depending on a calculation formula based on the strength of each drink and the volume. For example: • If the pint was 3.5°/aabv, the wine 125m1x 9%abv and the whiskey was a single that would equate to 2+1+1+1+1 = 6 hours or 3am.
• If the pint was 3,5%abv, the wine 175m1 x 12%abv and the whiskey a single that then equates to 2+2+2+2+1 i= 9 hours or 6am.
• If the pint was 5.3%abv, the wine 250mIx 12%abv and it was a double whiskey then it works out at 3+3+3+3+2 = 14 hours or 11 am, • Finally, if the pint was 5.3%abv, the wine 250mIx 15%abv and you had a triple whiskey that would be 3+4+4+4+3 = 18 hours or 3pm the following afternoon.
Contacts Alcohol training/testing: Avoidd 01491 684 001 avoidd@tkinkdrive.co.uk also website on www.drinkdrive.co.uk Drugs testing/training: Risk S. hi'Lers 01483 756 732 mail@riskshifters.ca.uk also website on wwwsiskshifters.co.uk