Johnny Carson joked on “The Tonight Show,” “I always stay home on New Year’s Eve because that’s when all the amateur drinkers are out.”

Amateur or seasoned professional, if you are going to drink tonight, don’t drive.  Or any other night.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD),  of the fastest growing grassroots organizations in the United States reports annually, nearly 13,000 people are killed by drunk drivers with an illegal alcohol level of .08 BAC or above.

Resist self-administered mathematical blood alcohol level tests and online intoximeters.  These methods are not 100% accurate due to individual consumption and reduction (burnoff) rates. Other contingent variables of blood alcohol content include:

• Gender
• Weight Metabolism rate
• Health
• Medications
• Drinking frequency
• Time lapsed
• Food in the stomach and small intestine

Be a responsible drinker and plan ahead.

Drink at home.

Arrange for a designated driver to take you home before you take the first drink.

Use alternative transportation. Call a friend and ask for a ride. Call a cab.

If possible, stay where you are and sleep it off.

Don’t drink and drive.

I hope you aren’t alone tonight (unless you want to be).

Happy New Year!

Recovery Rocks!

Roxie