News and information about drunk driving, alcohol addiction, mental illness, and the criminal justice system.
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…