Is it possible to still drink and pass random breathalyzers?!
Is it possible to still drink and pass random breathalyzers?
I'm just curious how long alcohol takes to exit the body. Does anyone know from preferably personal experience. Also i'm not asking how to "pass a breathalyzer" to get out of a dui, I'm just trying to find out if anyone knows when you drink at night how long will it take to get out of u the next day? It just really irritates me when someon asks a similiar question and gets told "don't drink and drive". No duh.... thanks, but that's not wut i'm wondering.
Answers:
The "one drink= one hour" rule is a very good rule of thumb. In reality, every person's liver detoxifies alcohol at different rates, and the average appears to be somwhere closer to 30-45 minutes per half-ounce of pure ethanol (roughly one beer, shot of liquor, or glass of wine).
As far as whether or not you can pass a breathalyzer, that's a lot more complicated. Alcohol enters the bloodstream through the intestines, and is broken down mostly in the liver. A very small amount of it, however, is expelled in vapor form through the lungs. This is what a breathalyzer tests for, the concentration of ethanol vapor in exhaled air. Whether or not you'll register 0.04 or above has a lot to do with your body weight and how your liver functions. For most people, 2-3 drinks within an hour will register above the legal limit.
The only way to excelerate the rate at which the body eliminates alcohol is with hemodialysis, a painful and complicated medical procedure. Drinking water, or black coffee has no effect on blood alcohol levels. Eating food decreases the rate at which alcohol enters the bloodstream, but does not affect the rate at which it eliminates it. Drinking a particular type of alcohol (premium vodka is often touted) will not fool a breathalyzer. Neither will sucking on mints, gum, pennies, or anything else. Overhydrating yourself (as with multiple IV infusions) will dilute the alcohol in the bloodstream, but can lead to a lot of other problems.
Luckily, the body does a good job of eliminating alcohol on its own. Even a hard night of drinking can be taken care of by a good night's sleep. As long as you sleep more than four or five hours, you should be good against a breathalyzer by the time you wake up.
I can drink beer all night and easily pass a breathailyzer test.
The trick is the beer you drink. I prefer root.
i wish i did trust me, i wish i did.
you have to drink a lot of water and run it through ur system, at least a gallon depending on how much u drank
I have been told that you normally metabolize, remove from the body, about a shot an hour. It would be close to about a beer an hour. It depends on how big you are and varies by person.
1 beer, 1 shot of whiskey, or 1 glass of wine per hour will register a .04 on a breathalizer test.
A good rule of thumb is one beer one hour or a shot an hour. I think it is a little less than this actually. Only time I was ever arrested though I was in a park on July 4 holiday and the sheriff carted away us hippies without Breathalyzer or anything. Called us public intoxicants. Long story. long ago.
New research out of Australia suggests that body mass & gender have nothing to do with how much you can drink & still remain under the legal limit.
It all hinges on how quickly YOUR liver metabolises the alcohol. So, your alcohol tolerance might be significantly higher than mine even though you are a smaller person because your liver metabolises the alcohol more quickly.
If you don't want to get caught then the best is not to drive after any alcohol at all but you can buy some pretty decent personal breath alcoholizers here in Australia that meet the standards. I guess it would be similar in the US?