Narconon’s View on Drunken Driving
Car Accident
We hear stories every day at Narconon about individuals who have lost privileges due to excessive alcohol use. Sometimes it’s the privilege to drive, but also unfortunately, it can extend to the privilege to raise one’s own children. Society has a right to protect the majority. Without effective treatment available for everyone who needs it one, of the few options to keep the majority safe, is to impose sanctions.
According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) “hard core” drunk drivers are causing the majority of accidents. Michigan law defines “hard core” offenders as those who have a second DUI within ten year or who have at least a 0.15 alcohol content.
Despite the effective campaigns of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), according to the article below, hard core drinkers continue to be resistant to efforts to keep them off the roads,
The missing element is be treatment. If accidents are being caused by second DUI offenders, then obviously the problem wasn’t fixed the first time.
Though perhaps while many of us wish that heavy drinkers would stay in the house all day, out of the way of others, it is unlikely. Their impaired thinking prevents clear thinking.
Long term effective treatment, such as Narconon, should be mandatory for any DUI and the penalties severe if not complied with.
“The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) wants states to make drivers caught with high blood alcohol concentrations or repeat drunk driving offenses a high priority, USA Today reported Dec. 8.
NTSB said that 70 percent of the drunk-driving accidents last year were caused by so-called “hard-core” drunk drivers. According to a new Michigan law, “hard-core” drunk drivers are individuals who have a second DUI offense within 10 years of their first, or who are found to have at least 0.15 percent alcohol content in their blood.
“Hard-core drunk drivers are, in many ways, resistant to the countermeasures we’ve applied since the early ’80s,” said Jake Nelson, director of traffic safety at AAA. The percentage of road fatalities related to drunk driving dropped from 50 percent in the early 1980s — when Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) was founded — to 32 percent in 2009, when 10,839 people were killed.
“You’re seeing harsher and harsher statutes being enacted in various states across the country,” said Joanne Michaels, who directs the National Traffic Law Center. She said that district attorneys are charging drunken drivers in fatal crashes as severely as possible.”