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Recent data produced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA), indicate that every thirty minutes, someone is the fatal victim of an alcohol-related motor vehicle crash. There is a non-fatal injury every 2 minutes. Other drugs such as marijuana and coke account for approximately 18% of motor vehicle driver deaths. Is there anything that you can do about it? A lot!
Misconceptions with regard to Alcohol
• Drinking coffee will not sober up a person who is intoxicated. The same is true for strenuous exercise, or even cold showers, or fresh air. Food will not absorb alcohol. The one thing that works is time. It takes about an hour to eliminate the alcohol from one drink.
• When comparing a bottle of beer, or a glass of wine, or even a shot of straight liquor, they are equivalent with regard to the amount of alcohol, while "light" beer contains the same amount of alcohol as normal beer.
• As a rule, woman usually will not process alcohol as quickly as men, due to they're being of lesser weight and because of their more limited production of alcohol dehydrogenase, the breakdown enzyme.
• It really does not take that many drinks to impair a person's ability to drive or to make them legally drunk. In fact, as few as three drinks during the period of a few hours is often enough to put the majority people over the legal limit.
The Affects of Alcohol on the Brain
Most people are aware of how alcohol can slow a person's reaction time and make him boistrous, obnoxious, and occasionally affectionate. Here however, is an example of how alcohol can affect only one of your senses, your vision:

Focus Alcohol impairs to ability of your eyes to focus back and forth from objects nearer and further away.
Muscle control It relaxes the fine muscle control of your eyes, often resulting in blurring of your vision.
Coordination It can impair the ability of your eyes to work together, resulting in double vision.
Distance Judgment It usually reduces your ability to accurately judge distances.
Peripheral vision It can affect your peripheral vision thus making it difficult for to see things at your sides.
Night vision It impairs the ability of your eyes to perceive objects in low light conditions.
Colors It makes it more difficult for you to distinguish colors.