Alcohol Information - Alcohol Test Kits Available:
Although alcohol is a legal substance used by many, there is clear and undisputed evidence that it impairs the user and can often be abused or misused. Accordingly, there is a
legal drink-driving limit of 80 mg/dl or 0.08% BAC (Blood Alcohol Concentration) enforced by law in the UK
and USA.
Alcohol is broken down by the liver at the rate of approximately one unit per hour (a pint of normal strength beer being two units). Consequently, it is possible to still be under the influence the following morning if you have drunk excessively the night before. In fact, every year in Britain over 25,000 people lose their driving licences the morning after a night's drinking.
To exercise caution, the following calculation can be used to estimate your level of risk after having drunk the night before.
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1 Unit of alcohol = ½ Pint ordinary strength
beer
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or...
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1 standard glass of table wine
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or...
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1 standard glass of sherry
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or...
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1 single measure of spirits.
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It is advised that you allow a minimum of 1 hour per 1
unit of alcohol before driving or operating heavy machinery
or electrical equipment in order to ensure that you are
not under the influence of alcohol.
This simple formula will help:
Number of units drunk - Number of
hours since last drink = Alcohol content
For example: A person drinks 6 pints of an ordinary strength
beer (12 units) finishing drinking at 11pm. They start work
at 8am the following day. (9 Hours later).
12 Units - 9 hours = 3. In this scenario, the person could
still have 3-4 units of alcohol left in their body whilst
driving to work the following day - risking both Police
prosecution and the safety of others. 3-4 Units will bring
most people to the legal driving limit. Please exercise
caution.
Free Training in Alcohol Testing Procedures:
Drug-Aware™ drug and alcohol test kits are very easy to use, but in any
technical field there are often many surrounding issues
of which to be aware. How long are different drugs and alcohol
detectable? How might patients attempt to influence their
test results? How can you prevent this? In our free training
sessions, we cover these topics and much more to arm your
team with the knowledge they need to operate a successful
testing programme.
These sessions are designed specifically to assist those
carrying out alcohol screening using Drug-Aware test kits
but they are different from our comprehensive drug awareness
seminars or policy development seminars which are often
bespoke sessions designed to suit the needs of individual
organisations and include a wealth of additional useful
information. Ask us for more details!
Support: Alcohol Test Kit & Alcohol Test
At Drug-Aware.com, we pride ourselves on our level of customer
support and firmly believe that our clients should see us
as their long-term partners in patient care. We are
considerably more than just a wholesale supplier of test
kits! On that basis,
we offer all of the support, training and product guarantees
that you could need:
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