For about ten years, our entire country has been arguing about how many ppm of alcohol can be in the driver’s blood. Drivers, government, doctors and traffic police inspectors - everyone has his own point of view and everyone believes that he is right. Where is the truth? No one knows how these disputes will end. And, after all, 1 ppm of alcohol is a lot or not so much?
That's what is known for sure, is that alcohol on the road does not bring good. The statistics of road crashes speaks for itself. Thousands of dead, tens of thousands, crippled and left disabled. This is a sufficient argument in favor of absolute sobriety while driving, for 0 ppm of alcohol. But not everything is as simple as it seems. We live in Russia, we cannot have everything smoothly, we always have a mystery.
Let's start with the main one. Alcohol is alcohol-containing drinks of different strengths. Once in the human body, it has an effect on the nervous system, disables self-control. Under his influence, criticism decreases, motivation is violated. It begins to seem to a person that “he’s knee-deep sea”, that he is capable of feats, that he is a genius, and no one understands him. Alcohol is an honor in many countries, but only here, for some reason, this problem has taken on a serious social character.
A ppm of alcohol (one thousandth) is a measure in which the amount of alcohol in the blood is measured. A bottle of beer in a man gives about 0.3 ppm, and a woman 0.5-0.6. Why is that? Due to physiological characteristics. The male body consists of water at 70%, and the female only at 60%. And by weight men are larger than women. There is also a perceptual trait and the rate at which the liver digests alcohol. Ppms are different. A woman loses her
reaction rate faster
. Basically, the ladies have problems with this, and then there's alcohol. But men should not relax and think that they are allowed more than women. If only because most women are well aware of their weaknesses. So, they try not to take risks while driving. But men almost always overestimate their capabilities, which ends in failure.
Zero ppm of alcohol was introduced two years ago. But there is one more problem, which, as it were, is not the main one, but a person who encounters it can cause a lot of trouble. Firstly, this is the presence of endogenous alcohol in the blood, there are people whose body produces alcohol itself. This sometimes happens with some diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. The second is the errors that the breathalyzers give. In either case, a person may face a fine.
There is an exit. It must be remembered that only a blood test can show an objective picture. If you are accused of taking alcohol, and you are one hundred percent confident in yourself, you need to donate blood. Only then it will become clear whether there is the notorious ppm of alcohol or not.
Probably, we will argue for a long time whether to enter acceptable values per mille or leave it zero. But everyone should remember: when driving a car, he takes responsibility not only for his life, but also for the life of other people. And each driver for himself should become the toughest breathalyzer.