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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2023 Dec 7;38(6):676–687. doi: 10.1037/adb0000978

Table 2.

BAC and Subjective Effects

Phase Placebo (0.0 g/kg)
M (SD)
Alcohol (0.60 g/kg)
M (SD)
30 mins 30 mins 50 mins 60 mins 90 mins 120 mins 150 mins 180 mins 210 mins 240 mins
BAC Early -- 67.70 (13.60) 74.96 (11.33) 76.50 (10.67) 70.50 (10.43) 63.22 (10.98) 57.06 (9.36) 51.52 (10.15) 43.60 (9.77) 36.56 (10.05)
Late -- 69.28 (15.42) 77.12 (10.88) 77.72 (9.59) 71.36 (9.62) 63.10 (9.45) 57.04 (8.80) 50.66 (8.24) 43.30 (9.36) 35.78 (9.13)
Intoxication Early 27.16 (23.48) 73.84 (16.32) 76.79 (14.33) 72.76 (18.12) 68.38 (18.11) 55.32 (23.19) 43.21 (24.09) 36.54 (24.04) 23.92 (21.31) 13.7 (18.79)
Late 26.84 (24.38) 74.16 (16.55) 76.94 (14.85) 73.9 (15.60) 65.61 (19.28) 55.78 (22.34) 46.42 (23.06) 37.42 (25.58) 28.90 (24.70) 18.32 (21.58)
Like Early 39.02 (24.23) 69.07 (23.29) 61.31 (26.04) 60.48 (24.38) 55.66 (23.86) 52.62 (22.13) 46.14 (23.93) 40.26 (21.90) 38.92 (22.73) 33.00 (21.08)
Late 40.64 (24.28) 70.52 (19.06) 68.36 (18.04) 64.64 (18.65) 58.31 (23.44) 54.06 (21.77) 45.24 (22.91) 42.52 (21.27) 43.2 (20.11) 37.1 (21.11)
Desire Early 29.18 (21.84) 31.85 (27.27) 35.04 (30.07) 31.92 (29.21) 27.16 (26.95) 23.58 (26.72) 17.53 (22.43) 14.51 (20.75) 11.18 (17.22) 9.4 (15.69)
Late 34.08 (25.08) 30.96 (28.84) 34.7 (28.56) 32.8 (28.06) 29.18 (28.60) 21.12 (22.73) 18.62 (21.58) 15.16 (19.21) 12.8 (17.96) 9.14 (16.88)
Stimulation Early 30.20 (22.85) 65.28 (18.72) 65.18 (21.94) 63.22 (23.32) 55.64 (22.23) 48.38 (20.66) 42.70 (23.00) 33.77 (22.77) 28.80 (22.92) 21.80 (21.96)
Late 31.12 (24.10) 65.78 (19.61) 63.76 (21.81) 61.18 (21.86) 55.67 (19.44) 49.34 (22.30) 41.06 (21.37) 36.90 (24.67) 31.52 (23.47) 24.36 (21.34)

Composite BAC and subjective effects data for all participants (N=50). Each column indicates the number of minutes post-consumption that measurements were completed. All subjective effects ratings were given on a scale of 1–100. Intoxication = participant’s subjective level of intoxication; Like = how much participant likes the effects she is feeling; Desire = participant’s desire to consume alcohol; Stimulation = participant’s subjective level of stimulation.