News and information about drunk driving, alcohol addiction, mental illness, and the criminal justice system.
Celebrate safely this holiday season. Impaired driving includes distracted driving, drugged driving, and drunk driving. Give yourself and your loved ones the gift of responsibility this holiday season. Before you start drinking, designate your sober driver or plan a safe ride home such as Uber or Lyft. If you will not be drinking, offer to…
Today after searching for a client who had missed court, I found that she had committed suicide. Even with my healthcare background and after taking two courses recently to help detect and find help for those contemplating taking their lives I wasn’t able to intervene…
Source: ScramSystems “Today the U.S. Surgeon General released a first-of-its-kind report about addiction that shows how widely and deeply drug and alcohol misuse and abuse are impacting the nation’s health. In his preface, current Surgeon General Vivek Murthy hopes the report will have the same impact on addiction as the Surgeon General’s report 50 years…
