DRIVING while hungover may be as dangerous as getting behind the wheel when drunk. <\/p>\n
But in a frightening twist, you\u2019re not likely to care about your shoddy driving skills the day after a night on the grog. <\/p>\n
New Australian research into the cause and effects of hangovers also shows how sick you feel the day after drinking can be determined by your genes, with some people more genetically predisposed to bad hangovers than others. <\/p>\n
The studies at Swinburne\u2019s Centre for Human Psychopharmacology \u2014 conducted in collaboration with international experts \u2014 promises to change the way we think about driving after drinking. <\/p>\n
\u201cResearch by some of my colleagues in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands … found that driving impairment is equivalent when hungover to driving with a BAC above the legal driving limit,\u201d Sarah Benson of Swinburne said. <\/p>\n
One of the criteria for someone being classified as \u201chaving a hangover\u201d , was that they had a zero, or very close to zero, blood alcohol concentration , she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cOtherwise we would be measuring the effects of residual alcohol and not of a hangover ,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people are hungover , they are definitely blowing under the legal limit, but their driving is <\/p>\n
Road safety chief at the TAC, Samantha Cockfield, said impairment from alcohol could last for a long time after drinking had stopped. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf we don\u2019t feel like we are OK to drive, the chances are we aren\u2019t ,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
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