In last week's article, the belief that a cold shower would help the intoxicated person was dispelled. As said before, the only proven cure for intoxication is time. It takes about an hour for your body to work one drink out of its system. Normally, an experienced drinker cannot drink more than a person of similar size. They will have about the same BAC if an equal number of drinks are consumed.
Some experienced drinkers can control their actions better than the inexperienced drinker.
This is a reason why it is sometimes difficult to tell whether a person is drunk or not. A person can be drunk and not stagger while walking or slur his speech when talking. It also isn't easy to tell whether a person is drunk just by looking at him. An experienced drinker, who is driving drunk, cannot compensate for his or her dulled reflexes when behind the steering wheel. Even though this person may not show it beforehand, those all-important reflexes are not as sharp as needed and because of this it will take the individual longer than a sober person to react during emergencies.