Would You Know When You’ve Gone Too Far? Mental health is essential to everyone’s overall health and well-being, and mental illnesses are common and treatable. But people experience symptoms of mental illnesses differently—and some engage in potentially dangerous or risky behaviors to avoid or cover up symptoms of a potential mental health problem.
Source: https://www.ncadd.org/about-ncadd/events-awards/alcohol-awareness-month Alcohol Awareness Month provides a focused opportunity across America to increase awareness and understanding of alcoholism, its causes, effective treatment and recovery. It is an opportunity to decrease stigma and misunderstandings in order to dismantle the barriers to treatment and recovery, and thus, make seeking help more readily available to those who suffer…
“Under Florida law, it is not necessary that the prosecutor present any evidence of bad driving in order to to seek a conviction for drunk driving.” Even if you are exercising extreme caution without infractions, it is still illegal to get behind the wheel. If you are involved in an automobile accident, even if you…
Thanks to a new partnership between Stetson Law and the Bay Pines VA Healthcare system, free civil legal assistance is now available to qualifying low-income veterans. Alumnae Cherilyn Hansen of Gulfcoast Legal Services and Julie Ann Embler of Bay Area Legal Services will work with VA social workers to help veterans. This includes help…
Even when they believed they were over the legal limit, drivers reported they still chose to get behind the wheel for the following reasons: Still thought they were okay to drive (43.7%) Didn’t have very far to go (12.6%) Thought they could drive carefully enough (10.9%) Of those reports, younger men and drivers who had…
Source: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/drinking-drunk-driving-spike-on-super-bowl-sunday-300399253.html “According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in 2015 on average one American was killed in a drunk driving crash every 51 minutes. Alcohol-impaired traffic fatalities often spike on holidays and popular drinking days, like Super Bowl Sunday. Data shows that states and regions with a team in the game can…
