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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 ...
Finland: for motor vehicles, 0.05%, [81] [82] or 0.22 mg/1 L alcohol in breath, aggravated: 0.12% or 0.53 mg/1 L alcohol in breath. [93] The penalty is a fine or jail up to six months plus license suspension from one month to five years. For aggravated, also a prison sentence (sixty days to two years) is possible, [94] usually as a suspended ...
Alcohol intoxication; Other names ... 4–17.4 mmol/L (25–80 mg/dL or 0.025 ... over a period of time that depends on the initial level and the patient's overall ...
The results of this study compared patterns of alcohol use from 2012-2013 to use in 2001-2002 and found that the rate of alcohol use rose more than 11%; the rate of high-risk drinking increased ...
Drunk driving is the act of operating a motor vehicle with the operator's ability to do so impaired as a result of alcohol consumption, or with a blood alcohol level in excess of the legal limit. [1] For drivers 21 years or older, driving with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08% or higher is illegal.
Authorities said his blood alcohol level was more than 16 times the state’s legal limit. Around 4:20 p.m., an officer stopped the bus at the end of its route as it returned to Jackson Middle ...
At the time of the crash, Lopes' blood alcohol content was .20, the DA's office said, which is more than twice the legal limit for driving of .08. His next court appearance is scheduled for May 22.
Earlier studies found mean elimination rates of 15 mg/dL per hour for men and 18 mg/dL per hour for women, [6] [4] but Jones found 0.148 g/L/h and 0.156 g/L/h respectively. Although the difference between sexes is statistically significant, it is small compared to the overall uncertainty, so Jones recommends using the value 0.15 for the mean ...