Allergic to alcohol? What are your symptoms to that beside yelling, cussing and gettin' naked?
Quote from: Slynito on January 03, 2012, 08:34:20 AMAllergic to alcohol? What are your symptoms to that beside yelling, cussing and gettin' naked? Red rashes, chills, itching and palpitation.
It sounds so simple...........don't drink and drive. Yet every year,there are far too many deaths or injuries from this. I agree that driving drunk is FAR more dangerous to society than guns and the numbers prove it. Your friend will lose a lot BUT............he didn't lose his life or kill somebody.
In 1977 I was involved in a head-on collision with a drunk driver. I was driving a squad car and my training officer was seated on the passenger side. We both survived the crash but spent some time in the hospital as a result. He did no jail time.He later killed a guy in a drunk driving crash but that occurred prior to the enactment of the reckless homicide charge in Illinois so he did no jail time. Sometime later he was boating on the Chain O' Lakes along the Illinois/Wisconsin state line. He drove his boat over another boat and decapitated the other boat's driver. At that time there was no DUI law for boating. He did no jail time.He finally got into another head-on collision in McHenry County Illinois with a car containing a mom, dad, and 2 young kids. The mom and dad were killed along with one of the kids. He finally went to prison. In spite of all that I continued to drink for another 13 years, driving the whole time. It was just blind, dumb luck that I never repeated what happened to me and his other victims. I have to confess to not having the slightest idea as to how to reduce the number of drunk drivers and alcohol related deaths on the roads. It doesn't appear that anything works. Drunks get sober for the long term when they realize the need for sobriety. Everything else merely forestalls the inevitable. On average treatment facilities achieve success with one out of 28 patients. By that I mean that one person out of 28 achieves one year of sobriety after completion of a 28 day residential program. People who are court ordered into AA many times head straight for the tavern from a meeting and then drive home.I wish I knew the answer to this problem.
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