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Question by John Smith: what does “alcohol related” mean when referring to an accident?
I am aware that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) often produce statistics about alcohol related accidents. Every attempt to look for what “alcohol related” means in these statistics just brings me to more statistics. I have read on under reliable(not entirely unreliable) pages that “alcohol related” can mean a BAC of 0.01 for at-least one of the parties involved(including passengers), or a measurable amount of alcohol on the “on the person” of or “in the control” of one of the parties(also including passengers) and have also herd an accident qualifies as “alcohol related” if it occurred between 1:00 AM and 4:00 am
I would like to know what “alcohol related” means and where to find the definitions used in statistics.
other information
USA
Wisconsin (doesn’t need to be state specific)
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Answer by David
Means the cause was related to a person drinking alcohol.
Answer by pyro420
Alcohol related means the cause of the accident was error due to alcoholic involvement in some way whether it was drunk driver,drunk passenger,driver had a single drink but still made an error believed to be due to dullened reflexes and judgement, and right up to they found a couple empty containers.
Alcohol & Drug Rehab Toronto Launches Program to Support Adults …
Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) January 09, 2014. A Toronto alcohol and drug rehab center is launching a program that encourages healing from alcohol addiction and drug addiction for adults and adolescents through Drug Addiction Treatment Centers.
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Drug Treatment Courts: 20 Years of Uncounted Deaths
As reported by Christina Jewett in 2012, a Senate panel lead by Senator Steinberg called the lax oversight by the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs into the deaths in recommended California rehab centers "disturbing." Yet in Georgia, as of summer …
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Alcohol & Drug Rehab Quebec Announces Program to Help Adolescents Cut …
A Quebec alcohol and drug rehab center is announcing that it has started a new program aimed at helping adolescents break their abuse of alcohol through new services available at Alcohol Addiction Treatment Centers. Statistics provided by the Canadian …
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Question by Anonymous Anonymous: Why is it illogical to argue that marijuana should be legal because alcohol is more harmful, yet legal?
Is it not reasonable to expect the legal substances to be safer than the illegal ones? Preventing potential harm to oneself/others is the basis for outlawing substances in the first place, right?
Please only answer my question, no ramblings on the topic in general.
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Answer by tomusiaka
You should not assume that a substance is less harmful just because it’s legal. There are many legal drugs in pharmacy that are much more harmful to you than marijuana and some other drugs that are illegal. Also, glues and other chemicals that can make you high are legal but they are very harmful to your body.
People who want to make marijuana legal have other reasons, too. For example, there are couple countries where legalizing drugs made people use them less and safer, or that if someone wants to hurt himself, he will do it any other way using any other substance that is legal or just will buy an illegal drug from a drug dealer that potentially could be even more harmful because it is not regulated by the law.
People who don’t want to make marijuana legal believe that making it legal would make a lot of people use it and hurt themselves and others. Hurting others would include families (father got addicted and is not supporting his own family), other drivers (driving when “on high” can be life threatening), other poeple (accidental) and government’s budget (more accidents would mean more filled up hospitals and drug addicts usually can’t afford to pay their medical bills because they spend all their money on drugs).
There are other valid arguments on both sides though but the one you gave is actually not a valid one.
Answer by Moonlit Pharoah
It’s not an illogical argument, but now no one wants to address the issue because the government would have to admit it made a “mistake”, to put it in the most benign of terms. The most honest would be that the politicians which are majorly funded by the pharmaceutical industry wants you to buy their drug (whether it be more harmful or not.) Also keeping marijuana illegal is big business when it comes to arresting otherwise law-abiding citizens (cops, lawyers, more prisons). This is prohibition just as it was with alcohol,only in this case they have conveniently grouped marijuana with much more destructive drugs so they can further penalize citizens and take away even more freedoms in the guise of protecting america from the scourge of drugs. They have even used their propaganda to try and group those who buy drugs with those who support terrorism. The only thing that is fueling drug related crime and lining the pockets of the worst criminals is the continued prohibition of marijuana.
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Timberline Knolls is a leading private residential treatment center for women and adolescent girls (ages 12 – 65+) with eating disorders, substance abuse, trauma, mood and co-occurring disorders. Located in suburban Chicago, residents receive excellent …
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Battling veterans' homelessness
The National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans, located near the VA Medical Center in West Philadelphia, was started in 2009 to study the dynamics of homelessness among veterans, as well as the best ways to help them. With an annual budget of $ 2.3 …
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Island council endorses turning inn into rehab center
The rezoning would allow clinical services, including diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation for drug and alcohol dependency, and mental health services for nonviolent patients. Treatment would include overnight lodging, according to Nester and town …
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Alcohol & Drug Rehab in Hamilton Launches Program that Leads Adolescents …
Hamilton, Canada (PRWEB) January 04, 2014. A Hamilton alcohol and drug rehab center is announcing that it has started a new program aimed at helping adolescents break their abuse of alcohol at Alcohol Addiction Treatment Centers. According to a report …
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Clippers' Paul plans on 'attacking rehab'
John O'Hurley, a man of many roles, comes to O.C. · By DAN WOIKE / ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER. Published: Jan. 6, 2014 Updated: 10:50 p.m.. Clippers' Paul plans on 'attacking rehab'. Print Photo. Email This Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share.
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Lakers face decision day for Farmar's rehab
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Ailing Ducks on road to recovery
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Boyd gets funds for teen drug treatment center
Recovery Kentucky utilizes a peer-based model in which addicts in different stages of recovery work together to get and stay sober. The Ashland facility will be the 17th … Almost $ 19 million will be used to start a grant program to fund comprehensive …
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Professor Probes Psychedelic Drugs for a Cure to Nicotine Addiction
“I always thought, 'I'm going to quit—this is my last pack,' ” says Bessant, 64, now living in Silver Spring and semiretired from his work making mounts for museum exhibits. “A big percentage of packs I bought were the last … Psilocybin is known to …
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