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Old 10-25-2010, 08:16 AM
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Freedom1990
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Originally Posted by Jadmack25 View Post
Naive is correct, and unless he has a metabolism that works at twice the speed of sound, he will possibly be permanently over the legal limit.
Speaking of metabolism, an alcoholic's body does not process alcohol the same as a normal 'social' drinker.

I remember reading about a study several years ago where both social drinkers and alcoholics were given a specified amount of alcohol to consume in a designated period of time.

Hours later there was no trace of alcohol in the spinal fluid of normal drinkers, but was very much present in the spinal fluid of alcoholics.

One of the core members of my home AA group got popped with a drug/alcohol test at work, and even though he hadn't drank since the evening before, he still tested positive for alcohol in his system, and was ordered to IOP if he wanted to keep his job.
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