Diet mixers in drinks could raise BAC’s
Lawrence Taylor’s DUI blog has a great post on this subject. If you practice in this area and have never seen his blog, leave and go there now.
To see the study in the journal Digestive Disease Week, click here.
The general idea is that artificial sweetners do not cause the pyloric valve to stay closed as long and for the drink to be trapped in the stomach where only approximately 20% of alcohol gets absorbed into the bloodstream. Consequently, the gastic emptying takes less time to occur and the drink gets passed into the intestine and absorbed there more quickly. BAC’s on the test subjects were .05 for the artificial sweetners and .03 for the sucrose sweetners.
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