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Drinking alcohol and driving can be a lethal combination, which risks endangering your individual life and also the lives of fellow motorists. Legal alcohol level limits happen to be implemented to ensure UK roads feel safe for everyone to drive on. Drink driving penalties have been in place to deter drivers from drunk driving and punish those who do. Different penalties apply depending on circumstances - previous points on licences can impact the severity of the punishment in addition to how much alcohol was found in the blood, breath or urine tests.

Newspaper headlines commonly are convinced that the numbers are falling, although it actually is correct that over the last several years the numbers have fallen, that is only compared to record highs. When you look at the 1st time the figure was recorded back in 1979 only 1600 men and women had been killed, 50 % of today's figures. Consequently, seems like hard to reason that these are 'good' figures and amounts of deaths are sinking.

Despite the best intentions of the authorities, there pervades a myth about drink driving which undermines all of their best efforts to thwart it. It is fair to state that the propagation of this myth is actually somewhat as a result of the authorities themselves: through their insistence upon pushing thinking about 'units' of alcohol for the public. A unit of alcohol will be the equivalent of 10ml of pure alcohol, along with the unit system exists generally to demonstrate the amount of alcohol in a particular drink; its main purpose is to act as a benchmark for health purposes. Contrary to popular public opinion: the volume of units of alcohol consumed doesn't necessarily use a bearing upon a motorist's adherence towards the drink drive limit...furthermore, in the UK there's not a drink drive limit as a result, but a series of drink drive limits.

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Evidence exist that energy drinks cause alterations in the brain chemistry, which may affect how an individual weighs risks and rewards. For example, the drinks may increase dopamine levels in mental performance, making the person feel that they may be more capable of certain actions. In addition, alcohol alone could increase the discharge of dopamine and serotonin, which results in an improved mood and decreased inhibitions. However, unlike energy drinks, alcohol might also make a person feel less capable plus much more fatigued. Thus, they may be less likely to have behind the wheel when drunk.

The difficulty the following is that whilst the police may have excellent evidence the motorist have been driving i.e. when the officer had followed the motorist, that is not the only thing the authorities have to show in order to prove their case. Things aren't as open and shut as they might first appear. We cannot allow an attitude to take hold that all motorists are 'banged to ragingalcoholic.com rights' as soon as they are pulled over by police officers. They aren't. The police still need to get other things right first.





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