{"id":1315,"date":"2009-12-16T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T13:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2009-12-16T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T13:50:13","slug":"drinking-coffee-whilst-drunk-does-not-sober-you-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2009\/12\/16\/drinking-coffee-whilst-drunk-does-not-sober-you-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking Coffee Whilst Drunk Does Not Sober You Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/coffee-does-not-sober-you-up-300x299.jpg\" alt=\"Coffee does not sober up a drunk person \" title=\"Coffee does not sober up a drunk person \" width=\"300\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1318\" \/>Further to my recent articles on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2009\/12\/07\/drink-driving-in-the-run-up-to-christmas\/\">drink driving<\/a>, according to research <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">drinking coffee in an attempt to sober yourself up from the effects of alcohol is a complete illusion<\/span><\/em><\/strong>, the BBC has reported (http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/8403088.stm).<\/p>\n<p>Research on mice has indicated that the <strong><em>drink may make you feel like you are sobering up and coming to your senses, but in actual fact is an illusion<\/em><\/strong>. The issue here is that people using the drink in order to sober up and subsequently <strong><em>falling under the false influence that they are OK<\/em><\/strong>, are more than likely not. The risk therefore of a person getting in to a vehicle thinking they are OK when they are not and <strong><em>causing an accident increases<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The research results showed the mice to be more alert and awake, but still found to be incompetent when navigating a maze following mixed doses of alcohol and caffeine. <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to my recent articles on drink driving, according to research drinking coffee in an attempt to sober yourself up from the effects of alcohol is a complete illusion, the BBC has reported (http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/8403088.stm). Research on mice has indicated that the drink may make you feel like you are sobering up and coming to your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2009\/12\/16\/drinking-coffee-whilst-drunk-does-not-sober-you-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drinking Coffee Whilst Drunk Does Not Sober You Up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Drinking Coffee Whilst Drunk Does Not Sober You Up<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2009\/12\/16\/drinking-coffee-whilst-drunk-does-not-sober-you-up\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drinking Coffee Whilst Drunk Does Not Sober You Up\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Further to my recent articles on drink driving, according to research drinking coffee in an attempt to sober yourself up from the effects of alcohol is a complete illusion, the BBC has reported (http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/8403088.stm). 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