More Dangerous Than We Knew
Drivers who test positive for THC are fond of arguing that the positive test was based on a joint they’d smoked a while ago - or even better, that somebody else in the car had been smoking.
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Extreme Intox
Testing done at the hospital or emergency room would presumably be more reliable than the roadside variety, but hospital samples are often taken several hours after an accident, when the driver’s BAL has already dropped.
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Is .05 the Sweet Spot?
…simply by lowering the standard BAC from .08 to .05, we could save an estimated 1500 lost lives every year. Not to mention approximately $121 billion in associated medical, legal, property, and productivity costs.
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Has Drunk Driving Changed?
we often find ourselves in the position of addressing what’s really an entrenched pattern of destructive behavior as if it were a one-time error in judgement. Because that’s how the offender sees it.
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“You’re Too Drive to High”
I do know that there appears to be a clear link between legalization of recreational cannabis use in a state, and the rate of traffic accidents that occur in its aftermath.
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Inexplicably Drunk
Of course, clinicians who work with offenders are accustomed to the occasional client who shows up stubbornly insisting that he or she had consumed no alcohol whatsoever before arrest.
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The Worst DUI Ever?
…the narrower the gap between the incident and its consequences, the greater the deterrent value in terms of the offender’s future behavior.
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A Bad Night in Minneapolis
Our alternative is to increase and lengthen our sentences for people who have serious drinking problems, and so far the Legislature hasn’t been willing to do that, and I’m not sure society wants a person — even if they have their second or third DWI — to be put in prison for 25 years.
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A Simple(?) Case of Drunk Driving…
Many hospitals are notoriously lax about testing, and if you really are injured, who can blame them?
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DUI During a Pandemic
Considering the number of cognitive errors involved, it shouldn’t be difficult to understand why so many first offenders are eventually arrested for a second offense.
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Really Hardcore
Anyway, it’s clear from this and a host of other examples that for some offenders at least, simple incarceration is never enough.
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Driver’s Ed
Of course, people who work in treatment know that there’s already solid base of regular users, millions of them, including daily smokers.
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The Angry DWI Client
I realized it wasn’t really me he was angry with. It was himself. For getting caught.
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