By Nicole S.

The one drink per hour rule is a myth that says you are safe to drive as long as you limit yourself to one drink per hour. How alcohol is absorbed and processed by our bodies is a lot more complicated than this. The time it takes for you to be sober depends on a variety of different factors such as how much you drank, how fast you drank it, healthiness of your liver, etc. Thinking that you are okay to drive even the next day could be a very fatal decision.

The Sweet Life Road Show tackles the issue of drunk driving in a very unique way. Most people are unaware that alcohol can still be in their system the next day and they can in fact be charged with drinking and driving. Through the use of an Intoxiclock you are able to get a more accurate estimate of when you will be safe to drive. Although the Intoxiclock is a great resource there are other alternatives that you can use on your mobile phone. The Morning After Calculator does the same job as the Intoxiclock and can be found online, on the App Store, and on Google Play. The calculator bases its calculation from the time you stop drinking rather than the time you start. It focuses primarily on when you will roughly be able to drive the next day.

Myths such a drinking black coffee, sweating it out in the shower, eating carbs, vomiting, and napping are not effective. The only way you can get your blood alcohol concentration level back to 0% is to wait. It takes time for alcohol to leave your system.

Drinking and driving has extreme consequences and is never safe to do.