Did you know you can get a DUI driving to work the morning after? You need to allow 1 hour per drink plus 2 hours, in my opinion, for it to be long enough for your body to metabolize this alcohol. If you've had 12 drinks the night before and you only slept 8 hours, you've still got several hours worth of alcohol metabolizing in your system that could get you a DUI. You could still be impaired the next morning. You say it would never happen. It happens all the