How long does alcohol stay in your system?

Question

my friend wants to know, i said it stays in your system for about 48 hours. is that true?

Answer 1

theres a old saying that goes

12 hours from bottle to throttle -

which is basiclly 12 hours before you can drive again.

Answer 2

No, it can vary, depending on your weight, and how much you had to eat prior to consuming the alcohol, and also how much alcohol you have consumed. The length of duration that alcohol stays in your system is dependent on these factors. At the least, 8 hours, depending on the conditions. At the most, 48 hours after you had the last drink, but that is borderline alcohol poisoning, or alcohol overdose.....

Answer 3

I believe it is 1 hour for every 8 ounces of alcohol. Thats how long it takes you liver to burn it of , but the effect of the alcohol itself may be 48 hours or more.

Answer 4

I myself am subject to random alcohol testing, and am a whiskey drinker. What I've done in the past is go at least 8 hours, and DRINK PLENTY OF WATER! (Drinking a large glass of water also helps the morning after hang-over...as well as flush the alcohol out of your system. Hope this helps. ( I also do not drive ) and oh yeah, you will have the pee in a cup test, I believe, although they take awhile to get results back.You will need to do the same things I mentioned above ~ if you must do the dreaded breathalyser < ( I hit spell check, and it implied that breathalyser is spelled correctly!) It sure doesn't look correct to me!! Hopefully if you get called in ( is it the Probation Dept?) you will have gone hours "without", and when you get called, just drink your water, and walk in with a smile :-) P.S. The reason I am able to go at least 8 hours is because my random urines happen at work, which is where I go in the mornings. If I'm out drinking the night before, I stop early, go home ~ eat ~ drink a large water before bed ~ wake up in the middle of the night "because I drank too much water before bed", drink another glass of water, and go back to sleep!

Answer 5

It generally takes 1 hour for each ounce of booze you drink. However it takes much longer for the acetaldehyde to leave your system.

"Acetaldehyde, sometimes known as ethanal, is an organic chemical compound with the formula CH3CHO or MeCHO. It is is a flammable liquid with a fruity smell. Acetaldehyde occurs naturally in ripe fruit, coffee, and fresh bread and is produced by plants as part of their normal metabolism. It is probably best known as the chemical that causes "hangovers".

In the liver, the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase converts ethanol into acetaldehyde, which is then further converted into harmless acetic acid by acetaldehyde dehydrogenase. The last steps of alcoholic fermentation in bacteria, plants and yeast involve the conversion of pyruvate into acetaldehyde by the enzyme pyruvate decarboxylase, followed by the conversion of acetaldehyde into ethanol. The latter reaction is again catalyzed by alcohol dehydrogenase, now operating in the opposite direction."

In other words your liver breaks down the booze fairly fast, but produces a poisonous substance that can only get out of your system by the various excretions you make. It's slow

Answer 6

Thankfully it's NOT true. Alcohol burns off at the rate of ABOUT one ounce per hour, so if you have, say, 3 beers or 3 regular mixed drinks, it will be all gone in about 3 hours.

If you're asking this, you need to also know that you can drink enough to kill yourself, if you pass out and don't vomit it up. Or you can suffocate on the vomit and die. So be careful. And NEVER drink and drive.

Answer 7

There are two basic variables in answering that question - your body weight and the amount of alcohol that you consumed. Other variables include whether or not you had food in your stomach and your health, both overall and your liver health.

So, it's very individualized, not just by person, but by event as well. There's no hard and fast way to give a specific answer.

Answer 8

alcohol only stays in your system for 12 hours

Answer 9

It takes your body 1hr to process a shot of alcohol...a shot is 1 1/2 oz....u may not feel the effects do to weight and all that cause it has an effect but the 1 hr is for everyone in order for them to drive...1 beer is about a shot...so you can figure that

Answer 10

Yes it is true but the less you drink say a shot compared to a fifth the shot will take less time and it also depends on the size of the person the smaller the person the longer it will take and the harder it will hit.

Answer 11

72 hours