The main reason why passengers ride with intoxicated drivers? Well, they feel that they know them and they are normally fine driving. It seems that the majority of people feel fine to drive after one drink, regardless of whether it is beer, wine, or liquor.

There is research that shows that motor skills learned while at a specific blood alcohol level, i.e. enough to cause a feeling of being drunk, are better at that specific blood alcohol level than when sober.

Even when you’re driving sober, if your vision is affected or you don’t have quick reaction time, you could end up in a crash. No one drives better after they’ve been drinking, and there is no safe limit of alcohol someone can consume before driving.

Drinking and Driving Facts and Solutions. Drinking and driving while either impaired or drunk is dangerous. Drivers with high blood alcohol concentration (BAC) are at much greater risk of traffic crashes. This means more injuries and deaths.

BEING A RESPONSIBLE DRIVER IS SIMPLE: IF YOU ARE DRINKING, DO NOT DRIVE.

1. Plan your safe ride home before you start the party, choose a non-drinking friend as a designated driver.
2. If someone you know has been drinking, do not let that person get behind the wheel.
3. If you drink, do not drive for any reason.

Drinking Do’s and Don’ts

• DO formulate a mission statement.
• DON’T go out with people who make you feel uncomfortable if you’re not drinking.
• DO set a liquor limit.
• DON’T guzzle.
• DO alternate alcoholic beverages with non-alcoholic drinks, like soda or juice.
• DON’T keep beer, wine, or hard liquor at home.

We may miss social and environmental cues that help us to interpret situations rationally. This means that if someone provokes us when we’re drunk, we might rise to the bait rather than thinking of the consequences. This can lead to violent or angry reactions from people who would usually just shrug things off.

7 Tips When Dealing with an Individual Under the Influence

1. Stay calm and approach them in a non-aggressive stance, open, empty hands in a friendly, non authoritative manner.
2. Try not to tell them what to do, but offer them choices and make your movements nice and slow.

If the person is unconscious, breathing less than eight times a minute or has repeated, uncontrolled vomiting, call 911 immediately. Keep in mind that even when someone is unconscious or has stopped drinking, alcohol continues to be released into the bloodstream and the level of alcohol in the body continues to rise.

When drinking too much gets dangerous

• Vomiting.
• Confusion.
• Severely slurred speech.
• Irregular or slow breathing.
• Loss of coordination.
• Pale or almost blue skin due to low body temperature.
• Being conscious but unresponsive.
• Passing out and being unconscious.

Drinking alcohol to excess can lead to a host of hangover symptoms, including throwing up. Vomiting is your body’s response to excess toxins from alcohol in your body. While vomiting may make you feel awful, the risks from excess toxins can be damaging to your system.