Drinking & Driving: Know Your Limits and Liabilities
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The national/international ethics of drinking as a way of life, are difficult to change. The book covers Blood Alcohol laws of the world, and the psychological/phsyiolgical aspects of alcoholism, and its effects on driving. Teenage drinking and driving is addressed, with a self diagnostic chart. Self help groups are illustrated with; current preventative measures, and codependent behavior identified.
Marshall Stearn
My non-fiction books represent my interests in helping the population at large. I am a psychotherapist & Life Coach and have tried to approach my interests to help the human condition, as illustrated in: Drinking & Driving, Self Hypnosis, Portraits of Passion, 90 Important Things to Survive the Future. Being a SAG-AFTRA actor I wrote Screenwriting Made Easy, and subsequent screenplays as books: Miltee, Ed Boudreau, Press Bet, Brief Encounter, Love Is A Many Splendid Thing. These are all fictional and character driven letting my creative imagination take hold. In Portraits of Passion I interviewed 32 men and women about creativity & passion for work. Some of them were known participants: Charles M Schulz(snoopy), Robert Mondavi, Melvin Belli, Steve Allen, Norman Cousins,Jerry Jampolsky, Linus Pauling, John Wooden, Alice Faye, and many others. Their work was their life!
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Drinking & Driving - Marshall Stearn
Drinking and Driving
Know Your Limits and Liabilities
By Marshall B. Stearn
Copyright © 2012 Marshall B. Stearn
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Cover Design by Carol Shinefeld
The California Highway Patrol has granted permission to reprint the anti-drinking and driving logo for the cover.
Dedication
To Frank Costanza, originator of Personal Support Group (PSG), who helped hundreds of addicts.
Table Of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Drinking, Driving and Drugs
Chapter 2: The Effect on Alcohol on the Organs on the Body
How to Calculate Your Blood Alcohol
The Path of Alcohol
The Effects on Alcohol
Summation
Chapter 3: The Problem
Alcohol and Crashes
The Driving Population
Arrested Drunk Drivers
Deterrents
Recommendations
Chapter 4: Road Test and Alcohol
Road Tests
What the Tests Show
Summation
Chapter 5: Emotions and Your Driving
Alcoholics Profiled as Car Crash Cause
U.S. Fans Could Turn Violent Too
Chapter 6: Driving Under the Influence
California Drunk Driving Law
Chapter 7: Young People and Alcohol
Problem Drinkers Among Adolescents
Prevention
Treatment Programs
Quiz
Answer to Quiz
Chapter 8: Helping Agencies
The National Council on Alcoholism
Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon, Alateen
How to Tell When Drinking is Becoming a
Problem
Chapter 9: How To Send Your Guests Home Sober
Server Intention
Appendix: Driving Under the Influence Laws Around the World
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Foreword
The profound negative affect that alcohol has had on my immediate family inspired the research and publication of this book.
The national ethics of drinking as a way of life, are difficult to change. Even on an individual level a person’s consciousness often must be significantly jolted in order to internalize the problem and attempt to change. This jolt may come about in many ways, but the most effective instrument of change is experiencing a real need, whether physical or spiritual, to make the effort to bring about lasting change. Of course an unexpected tragedy is, in many cases, the reason why a person’s behavior will change.
The drinking and driving epidemic which now plagues the United States is also a global disaster. Hopefully, the data gathered here will have an impact on the general public.
I wish to thank the many people and agencies who lent their advice, encouragement, and support to this project.
Acknowledgements
Sincere thanks to David Bessie, Quentin Durham, Russ Fontaine, Barbara Holly, Brian Kuester, Jay Oliver, Kim Peters, Carol Shinefield and Tonia Sedlock for their technical help and assistance.
Special thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous, Allstate Insurance Company, California Highway Patrol, National Council on Alcoholism, National Highway Traffic Safety Council, MADD, RID, SADDD, and the United States Department of Health and Human Resources for their help and assistance.
Introduction
Alcohol is a major contributing factor in automobile crashes. Approximately sixty percent of fatal crashes each year involve a driver who had been drinking. In fact more than three-quarters of these drivers had a blood alcohol level that exceeded the .08 percent limit required for intoxication; on the average their blood alcohol content (BAC) was found to be .20 percent. According to the National Council on Alcoholism, of the people stopped for driving under the influence (DUI) and cited for drunk driving, two-thirds are deemed to have a drinking problem.
To gain some perspective on the gravity and horror that are the results of drinking and driving, consider the following scenario:
Madigan Army Hospital in Tacoma, Washington prepared a Memorial Day weekend safety campaign by demonstrating the effects on a high-speed auto crash. A car traveling at fifty-five miles per hour and containing a test-mannequin, crashed into a tree. Using time-lapse photography, the following results were demonstrated. ¹
1/10 of a second:
The front bumper and chrome frosting of the grill work collapse. Slivers of steel penetrate the tree to a depth of over one inch.
2/10 of a second:
The hood crumbles and smashes into the windshield. Spinning rear wheels leave the ground. As the fenders come into contact with the tree, the car bends in the middle with the middle with the rear end bucking over the front of the car.
3/10 of a second:
The mannequin’s body is now off the seat, torso upright, knees pressing against the dashboard.