How many ways are there to test alcohol in a person?
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The ways to test for alcohol level include:\nblood\nsaliva\nurine\nbreathalyzer\n\nHowever, most people are only familiar with the blood test and the breathalyzer.
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its a achohol blood level test it tell how drunk you are
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Former police officer/current attorney\n\nRegarding the answer by "Superstar"...it is true that pure alcohol has no odor. But, alcoholic beverages do smell, usually like sh!t after awhile. You put a drunk in the back of a squad car, and it smells HORRIBLE...\n\nI would interested be in knowing what the legal limit is in your state. In Indiana it is .08% BAC. However, a defendant can still be charged even though they tested below the legal limit. The state would then have to show that the defendant, even though below the limit, was too impaired to drive. \n\nAs far as the defendant "appearing" sober...I've seen people who tested in the .25% to .30% range and appeared perfectly normal. Career alcoholics have a higher tolerance than others.\n\nThe red eyes and slurred speech are "typical" fluff to try and prove intoxication and/or impairment. The field sobriety tests are useful, especially if taped. \n\nGiven your facts it would be tough...especially if the defendant was slightly below the legal limit, and the state was trying to get him convicted on the impairment aspect instead, tough call.
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Why you never question a drunk-- \n\n\nA woman was shopping at her local supermarket where she selected: \nA half-gallon of 2% milk, \nA carton of eggs, \nA quart of orange juice, \nA head of romaine lettuce, \nA 2 lb. can of coffee, \nAnd a 1 lb. package of bacon. \nAs she was unloading her items on the conveyor belt to check out, a \ndrunk standing behind her watched as she placed the items in front of \nthe cashier. \nWhile the cashier was ringing up her purchases, the drunk calmly stated, \n"You must be single." \nThe woman was a bit startled by this proclamation, but she was intrigued \nby the derelict's intuition, since she was indeed single. She looked at \nher six items on the belt and saw nothing particularly unusual about her \nselections that could have tipped off the drunk to her marital status. \nCuriosity getting the better of her, she said "Well, you know what, \nyou're absolutely correct. But how on earth did you know that?" \nThe drunk replied, " 'Cause you're ugly
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First off, thanks for staying drug-free and passing the test!\n\nNow, please ignore the foolish advice to drink 3 quarts of water -- it's possible to get water poisoning by drinking too much water and it can be FATAL!\n\nYour problem is not unusual at all, actually.  Many people have problems doing this in the presence of another person, especially a stranger.  However, for legal reasons (that actually protect YOU if you're drug-free!) a monitor is required to view the flow of urine from the urethra into the cup and to certify such under penalty of perjury.  In some non-justice related testing, such as pre-employment screening, alternative methods are used to verify that the sample is legitimate such as taking the temperature of the sample immediately after collection.  Unfortunately, this won't work in your case.\n\nYou might ask if a blood test could be used in lieu of the urine test.  Not all jurisdictions allow this and those that do may require you to pay the increased cost for blood testing but it's worth asking the question.\n\nFailing that, you're going to have to work through this on your own.  Try to psyche yourself up prior to the test.  Remind yourself that you ARE drug-free and this test is going to PROVE it to the world.  Picture yourself having successfully completed your probation or parole and NEVER having to do this again.  Anything that will ease the mental block for you.\n\nOnce you get a couple of clean tests, the folks there will come to accept the fact that you have problems doing this and may ease off the pressure a bit.  Actually, they deal with this on a daily basis but there's no way to separate the scammers from the folks with difficulty in providing a witnessed sample until they become accustomed to dealing with you.  In the best case scenario, they might use the same witness each time to help make it a bit easier on your though local policy may prohibit this.\n\nIt does help to have a bit extra to drink prior to reporting to the testing facility.  An extra cup of coffee or can of soda or two will usually suffice.  Don't overdo it though as excessive intake can be dangerous as I mentioned earlier.  It's also possible that the test could come back as "diluted" which would require you to retake the test.  This is a common ploy for drug users to try to cheat the test but it never works and if you're truly drug-free you don't want them to think that you're trying to get one over on them.
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Just always carry gum.  I don't think there is a way to test unless you ask someone.
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http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_testing.shtml
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It's a simple test that tells whether an alcohol is primary secondary or tertiary by looking at the time required for a white ppt to form.
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The balance test is not an accurate test regardless if it's for alcohol or drugs. Yes drugs affect people in various ways and the balance test may not help in any way. However a person with a disability or someone who may have vertigo or other medical conditions would NOT pass the balance test even if they were 100% sober. \n\nUrine and blood tests are much more accurate. The Breathalyzer helps for alcohol, but still not as accurate as the urine and blood tests. You can actually get more information than the breathalyzer. Also the balance test is pretty much hearsay unless it is video taped. I would always encourage people to ask for the other options in any case.
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depends on your body weight, but a good rule of thumb is  8 oz. of alcohol gets metabolized every hour for an average person.  \n\n(please double these figures if you are a midget)
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hi there,\nIt depends upon what you drink, but 2 standard drinks a day / also having 2-3 days alcohol free is safe consumption of alcohol. 1 standard drink is 285mls of beer (5.0% of alcohol), or 30mls of spirits (whisky etc), or a glass of wine.
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Alcohol does only stay in your system 24 hours. Some side affects may stay up to 36 hours. A test ,24 hrs.
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The most simple answer is when you start depending on alcohol as if it were a need. \n\nHowever, there are several more professional tools that may be used to detect the habitual abuse of alcohol. The CAGE questionnaire, developed by Dr. John Ewing and named for its four questions, is one such example that may be used to screen patients quickly in a doctor's office.\n\nTwo "yes" responses indicate that the respondent should be investigated further.\n\nThe questionnaire asks the following questions:\n\nHave you ever felt you needed to Cut down on your drinking? \nHave people Annoyed you by criticising your drinking? \nHave you ever felt Guilty about drinking? \nHave you ever felt you needed a drink first thing in the morning (Eye-opener) to steady your nerves or to get rid of a hangover? \nAnother screening questionnaire is the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), developed by the World Health Organization.\n\nThe Alcohol Dependence Data Questionnaire is a more sensitive diagnostic test than the CAGE test. The Alcohol Dependence Data Questionnaire serves to distinguish a diagnosis of alcohol dependence from one of alcohol abuse.\n\nRead more at:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism
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Lots of tests done on real people in controlled environments. Police departments do these tests from time to time with regular people in their area. Let them drink and then give them sobriety tests, put them behind the wheel of a car on a closed test track, etc.
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are you diabetic?  that can cause a false positive on an alcohol urine test.\nhttp://sdrl.com/tech_briefs/DIABETICPATIENTS.html\n\nask for a re-test, sometimes laboratories make mistakes, contaminate the sample or get samples mixed up.\n\nalso every test has a finite probability of giving the wrong answer (usually they say - detects such-and-such 98% of the time.. that means you might randomly be in the 2%).\n\ngood luck and good job staying sober!\n\nEDIT:\n\np.s. red wine vinaigrette is made with vinegar that was made from red wine.  that means the grape sugar was fermented to make alcohol and then the alcohol was further broken down into acetic acid.  there should be very little alcohol remaining in vinegar, and if there was any there would be very diluted because a) it was a pretty low concentration to begin with and b) there's a lot of other stuff in vinaigrette.\n\nso it's probably not that.
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psychological test is one of the way,\nbut long time assesment of behaviour and resposse to various social stimulants ( situations) can be used to measure.
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If it is a 2 panel, 3 panel, 5 panel or 10 panel urine test then no they are not testing for alcohol.  If they swab your cheek, yes...this is called an Alco test.  If they do a blood test the answer is also yes.\n\nhttp://www.onsitedrugtesting.com/drugtest/multidrug.htm\n\nHope this helps!