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AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar - After 12-hour shifts for six straight days, you hit the “spot” with your friends and stay out well after midnight.
The next day you have to go to work, you forgot something, how long does alcohol stay in your system?
“Once you consume the alcohol it usually takes about 20-30 minutes for the alcohol to fully enter in your blood stream,” said Tech. Sgt. Richard Anderson, 379th Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron Mental Health certified alcohol and drug counselor at Al Udeid Air Base. “The average time for anyone to metabolize or get rid of it takes your body about two hours for each alcohol beverage.”
Many service members do not realize that even a small amount of alcohol has an effect on their body. Al Udeid Air Base Instruction 31-204, Motor Vehicle Traffic Supervision’s policy states operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration greater than 0.00 percent by volume is considered driving while intoxicated.
“It’s important to note that your two-hour time frame for metabolizing alcohol starts after the 20-30 minutes it takes to get in your system,” said Anderson.
“Regardless of gender, height or weight, alcohol is metabolized at about the same rate in both males and females,” he said.
Women are affected more than men who are the same height and weight. “Women have less water in their body to dilute the alcohol and less of the specific enzyme used to metabolize alcohol,” Anderson said.
To assist service members, Anderson also shared a list of do's and don’ts about drinking alcohol.
“Do have a plan to get home, set limits and stick to your limits. Don’t drink and drive, binge drink or give into peer pressure,” he said.
| Date Taken: | 11.24.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 11.28.2015 07:48 |
| Story ID: | 183037 |
| Location: | AL UDEID AIR BASE, QA |
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