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dpg3456 t1_j5ozjen wrote

Reply to comment by akennelley in TIFU for getting my 12-year-old son drunk by [deleted]

Yup, that's it. "On average, it takes about one hour to metabolize one standard drink. "

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Coctyle t1_j5phoxc wrote

Metabolizing alcohol is what makes you sober. It is the process of removing the alcohol from the body. That is the process that takes one hour per drink (for an average person).

The comment you originally replied to was in regards to the time it takes to get drunk. The person was doubting that OP got drunk beyond the capacity for rational thought in three minutes.

I share the doubts about the veracity of the post, but it absolutely does not take one hour for alcohol to get into a person’s bloodstream and make the person intoxicated. That’s would be a misunderstanding of what it means to metabolize alcohol.

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dpg3456 t1_j5plvek wrote

I was using the term process in the sense of the alcohol being broken down then released by the body. But I see where the confusion came from.

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