Legal amount of Units in the UK (Alcohol)

How many units can you have? and how long does it take for your body to remove one unit of alcohol?

 

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here all alcoholic drinks must come with a label stating how many 'standard drinks' the bottle contains. a standard drink contains the amount of alcohol which can be processed safely by your liver in 1 hour.

as for how many you can have? as many as you want! your just not allowed to drive after more than 1.

 

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One unit? thats so gay. You can't even get tipsy off one unit, its like drinking water. So says my friend who is a non Muslim and drinks. I do not drink by the way.

 

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What's a unit of alcohol?

p.s. I'm non-religious and don't drink too.

 

im assuming the european 'unit' is similar to our standard drinks, which as i stated above, 1 standard drink contains the amount of alcohol which can be safely processed by the liver in 1 hour.

muslim;

thats the idea, standardisation was introduced so that people know how much they could drink without getting drunk. they may want to drive later on, or maybe they just want to avoid date rape.

BTW, im an atheist and hit the piss every night after work.

 

from bupa:The medically recommended units of alcohol per week is 14 for women and 21 for men.

 

use this to help you http://www.at-bristol.org.uk/Alcoholandyou/Facts/units.html

 

So how many units. 3 or 2?

 

This is equal to about two pints of strong beer (approximately) but depends on your body weight. But you can still be arrested for DUI if you have an accident and your blood alcohol shows up at 0.08%.

As for clearance of alcohol from blood, that depends on whether you have a meal with it (which increases your clearance) but average clearance is about 20 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood per hour, with a range from 8-32 mg per 100 ml per hour.

 

Apart from Bacardi Breezers.

Welcome back. How's the wife?

 

Going for wife number 2 anytime soon?

 

You just need harsher sanctions. 15 days arrest, confiscation of car, bigger fines, suspension or cancelation of driving licence. Worked in Latvia.

 

harsher sanctions isnt going to help anything. public transport and a good advertising campaign would however. i know of hardly any drink driving incidents in the city, because people can walk, bus or taxi. out here however, drink driving is a common occurence, because we simply have no other means of conveyance.

 

Gay is not a synonym for bad or stupid.

 

Hmmmm - perhaps the authorities don´t want you to drive, when you are "tipsy" ........

One drink gives you 0.02 to 0.03 % in BAC - depending on, if you are eating with the drink (and many other things) ..

Normally you eliminate 0.015 to 0.02 % BAC per hour , so eliminating a drink takes between 1 -2 hours .... in my country we have a general rule :
one drink = 75 minutes (we are used to drinking )

Here in DK , the limit for driving is 0.05 % BAC , which equals 1½ to 2 drinks ......

And you say you don´t drink , Muslim , have some :m:

 

thats kinky way labeling alcohol in my opinion. how they define average person? And women process alcohol slower then men...

we have labels that state how much absolute alcohol this drink contains, for example, vodka is 40%, so everybody knows its 40% ethanol and 60% water, beer is ~4%-12% and so on.

 

mhm, same here

 

Not meaning to nit pic but vodka is 37.5% by volume. Whiskey is 40%.
Units of course are only a guide, many anglo saxons descendants livers can take way other the recommend, due to the medieval habit of drinking beer instead of infected water.