BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL (BAL) MONITORING

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BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL (BAL) MONITORING         The amount of alcohol in your blood stream is referred to as Blood Alcohol Level (BAL). It is recorded in milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood, or milligrams percent. For example, a BAL of .10 means that 1/10 of 1 percent (or 1/1000) of your total blood content is alcohol. When you drink alcohol it goes directly from the stomach into the blood stream. This is why you typically feel the effects of alcohol quite quickly, especially if you haven't eaten for a while. BAL depends on: 1. Amount of blood (which will increase with weight) and 2. The amount of alcohol you consume over time (the faster you drink, the higher your ...

... emerge a host of negative effects, such as less emotional control, coordination and judgment impairment, hangovers and obnoxious behavior.         One way of controlling alcohol is to learn to gauge BAL by internal sensations and to attend to the reinforcing signs of a low BAL. Doing so will enable you to be more in control of how much you drink and, by focusing your attention on the initial pleasurable effects, be able to enjoy alcohol with less negative consequences. Blood Alcohol Level Charts are available in a number of resources. For example, 'How to Control your Drinking: A Practical Guide to Responsible Drinking' (Miller & Munoz, 1982) Contains tables which list BAL values by gender, weight, number of drinks consumed

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