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Blood alcohol content (BAC), also called blood alcohol concentration or blood alcohol level, is a measurement of alcohol intoxication used for legal or medical purposes. [1] BAC is expressed as mass of alcohol per volume of blood. In US and many international publications, BAC levels are written as a percentage such as 0.08%, i.e. there is 0.8 ...
One difference is the acceptable limit of blood alcohol content. For example, the legal BAC for driving in Bahrain is 0, despite drinking alcohol being allowed, in practice meaning that any alcohol level beyond the limit of detection will result in penalties. The highest specific threshold is 0.08% in countries such as Ghana and England, while ...
It might also be interesting to include information on what level of alcohol in the blood is usually fatal, and the highest recorded cases of people exceeding this and survivng (alcoholics may build up a tolerance). Eg . fabiform | talk 23:05, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC) Maybe the political background for setting a limit should be mentioned.
To reach a blood alcohol level of .30, a person would have to consume at least six to seven alcoholic drinks in an hour, ... California high school basketball brothers set 102-point, 35-assist ...
Police say Marshella Chidester had a blood alcohol level of 0.18 when she plowed an SUV through the wall of Newport's Swan Boat Club during a 3-year-old's circus-themed birthday party on April 20 ...
Arie and Golda Oberlender of Long Island died February 1, 2023, in a crash caused by a driver whose blood-alcohol level was near poisoning.
The official cause of death was acute ethanolism (alcohol poisoning). [4] Davidson County Medical Examiner Charles Harlan stated that Whitley's blood alcohol level was 0.47 (the equivalent of 20 one-ounce shots of 100-proof whiskey).
His blood-alcohol level was recorded at .087, above the .08 legal limit in New Jersey, according to prosecutors. Higgins was present during a virtual court hearing Friday, and a judge ordered he ...