SOCIAL DRINKING AND BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVELS
BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVELS WERE RECORDED UNDER NORMAL SOCIAL CONDITIONS. (MOST REPORTS OF BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVELS HAVE BEEN UNDER HIGHLY ARTIFICIAL CONDITIONS WHERE THE PARTICIPANTS DRANK RAPIDLY A MEASURED AMOUNT OF ALCOHOL ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.) THEREFORE, AT THE END OF A 'GAME DINNER' EVENING, THE UNSUSPECTING MEMBERS WERE ASKED IF THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO HAVE BLOOD SAMPLES TAKEN. EACH GUEST HAD CONSUMED 650-700 ML WINE (APPROX. 12% ALCOHOL CONTENT). THE MAJORITY OF MEMBERS (19) AGREED TO PARTICIPATE AND EACH WAS HANDED A PROFORMA (CONTAINING 7 LINES) AND ASKED TO GIVE HIS OWN SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF THEIR ALCOHOLIC STATE. THREE MEMBERS TICKED LINE 2 WHICH RUNS AS FOLLOWS: I HAVE A PLEASANT SENSATION OF WELL-BEING. THEIR BLOOD LEVELS WERE 44, 50, AND 79 MG/100 ML OF ALCOHOL. THREE TICKED LINE 3: MY DRIVING ABILITY IS UNIMPAIRED (33, 95, AND 60 MG/100ML). SIX TICKED LINE 4: I WILL DRIVE CAREFULLY HOME (117, 87, 62, 63, 64 AND 47 MG/100 ML). SEVEN TICKED LINE 5: THERE IS SOME IMPAIRMENT OF MY REACTION TIME (77, 60, 45, 138, 46, 52 AND 60 MG/100 ML). IT WOULD APPEAR THAT OWING TO WIDE INDIVIDUAL VARIATIONS, AN ARBITRARY LEVEL OF BLOOD ALCOHOL ABOVE WHICH IT WOULD BE AN OFFENSE TO DRIVE A MOTOR VEHICLE, SHOULD BE SET SUFFICIENTLY HIGH TO ALLOW FOR THIS. VAN ITERSON - LEIDEN (N,2B,2C,17) /SRIS/
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Supplemental Notes:
- Vol 65, No 410, PP 689-690
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Pryor, W J
- Publication Date: 1966
Media Info
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Serial:
- New Zealand Medical Journal
- Publisher: New Zealand Medical Association
- ISSN: 0028-8446
- EISSN: 1175-8716
- Serial URL: http://journal.nzma.org.nz/journal/
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Alcohol use; Blood alcohol levels; Blood analysis; Drivers; Questionnaires; Reaction time
- Old TRIS Terms: Blood tests
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00222930
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Nat Safety Council Safety Res Info Serv
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 17 2003 12:00AM