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    Drinking & Driving: Know Your Limits and Liabilities
    Drinking & Driving: Know Your Limits and Liabilities
    Drinking & Driving: Know Your Limits and Liabilities
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    Drinking & Driving: Know Your Limits and Liabilities

    By Marshall Stearn

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarshall Stearn
    Release dateFeb 26, 2015
    ISBN9781311431424
    Drinking & Driving: Know Your Limits and Liabilities
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    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

      Smashwords Edition

      A print edition of this book was published by Park West Publishing Co.

      p.westpub@gmail.com

      Smashwords License Notes: This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the author.

      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.

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