Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Driving While Buzzed: No Amount of Alcohol Is Safe Behind the Wheel

The blood-alcohol limit in the U.S. is 0.08% — a cutoff that implies that any blood-alcohol content (BAC) south of 0.08% is safe, or at least not illegal.
But a new study published in the journal Addiction suggests that there is no such thing as a safe BAC and that driving after consuming even a small amount of alcohol — just one beer, for instance — is associated with incapacitating injury and death.

Read the full story in Time Magazine

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