Alcohol affects each one of us differently and at different rates and in different amounts. There are no hard and fast rules with which to detrmine how any one person might be impaired at .12, .08 or .02.
To everyone else: the mainstream meaning behind "alcoholism is a disease" mantra is *not* that it literally is a disease but that its clinical diagnosis and treatment is simialr to the process of diseases. But no one, except the truly wacko, believes alcoholics are to be socially and legally treated the same as those with a 'real' disease...i.e. a pathology with a 'no choice' basis
Alcohol affects each one of us differently and at different rates and in different amounts. There are no hard and fast rules with which to detrmine how any one person might be impaired at .12, .08 or .02.
I agree alcohol does indeed hit people differently, but a person battling with alcohol for many years, as he claims to be, is not out of THAT out of control at .12...That I refuse to believe.
For his weight/size .12 is probably 6 beers in a two hour time frame...