How long do the effects of three drinks last?
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January 9th, 2010
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for my psychology final paper on alcohol. you have three drinks, how long are you “on a buzz” or drunk for?
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It depends upon your size, your gender, and your metabolism.
Yes, it’s highly dependable. It also depends on how fast they’re consumed. Three shots all at once? I’d be quite drunk for a few hours, but I don’t think that’s very typical – most people can hold their alcohol better than I can.
It also depends on the size of the drinks and the alcohol content(proof).
“Using a breath test, one ounce of alcohol is generally no longer detectable in one to two hours, depending on the size and sex of the person. This also assumes one, one-ounce drink of alcohol, with no alcohol ingested for several hours or days before that. One ounce of alcohol will have a greater effect on a 100-pound female than it will on a 300-pound male. And whether fair or not, alcohol stays in a female’s system longer than a male’s because of the fact that women metabolize alcohol differently than men do.
A blood test, however, can detect smaller amounts of alcohol and for longer periods. Small amounts of alcohol ingestion (one to three ounces) may still be detectable in the blood ten to twelve hours later—again, depending on the person.”
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In general:
-female teens: 24–34 hours
-male teens:24–32 hours
-adult men:12–24 hours
-adult women:18–28 hours
-elderly men:20–28 hours
-elderly women:24–30 hours.
Note:this study has included the ‘sleeping’ time for contestants who drunk for overconsuming alcoholic drinks and may vary from one person to another(it also must consider age,race,symptom,gender,alcohol concentration,and anything has relation with it).
Sometime someone who don’t used to drink alcoholic drinks will find the ‘effect’ last longer than someone who used to drink big amount of alcohol.
All I know is that in general your liver metabolizes 1 drink per hour, meaning it almost completely eliminates one alcoholic drink per hour. If you were to consume one 12 oz. beer and then waited another hour to drink another, your blood/alcohol content/level would be very close to 0.00. This is the most common general understanding from which I have learned in over a year’s worth of attending alcohol education courses. This of course depends on the size of the individual, metabolism, etc. which everyone has already listed.
@mass_pike4 That’s the way I was taught it, a “rule of thumb” based on a male of average size and weight. One per hour.
Depends also on what kind of alcohol. Example: Tequila vs. Beer.
figure one hour per drink, but that isn’t dogma.
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