Alcohol Abuse, Drunk Driving Higher Around Holidays

For some people, holidays present higher dangers for drunk driving but for others, every day is dangerous.

Around the holidays, more people tend to drink than usual and this results in more people being on the road in an intoxicated condition. Around the US, law enforcement agencies have wised up to this phenomenon and use public service announcements to try to convince people not to drive after drinking.

Still, more than 10,000 people each year lose their lives in an alcohol-related traffic accident so the job is far from over.

According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 40% of traffic related deaths during the holiday season involve drivers who have been drinking. Until this problem fades away, it is useful to remind people of the alcohol-related facts.

1.    Alcohol interferes with one’s depth perception and reaction time long before one reaches the legal limit for driving. This is even more true for young drivers.
2.    Coffee only sobers people up in the movies, not in real life.
3.    Even if a driver is in good shape at the moment they stop drinking and get ready to go, their body will continue to absorb alcohol from the contents of the stomach. He or she can wind up over the legal limit while driving.
4.    Alternating an alcoholic drink with a non-alcoholic drink can help one remain sober enough to drive safely.
5.    It is recommended that a person who will be driving drink no more than one alcoholic drink per hour. Even better and safer than this is designating one person in your group who will not drink at all.

But as is typical with any advice, the people who need this advice the most are the least likely to accept it. Those people are the ones who have lost control of their drinking, the alcoholics. For them, it’s alcoholism that makes the decisions about how much to drink and when to quit. If they drive, they are likely to lack the judgment to know when to give the keys to someone else. Alcoholism creates a a denial of the very condition that creates so much danger for the alcoholic. And not only for the alcoholic – also for everyone they might encounter on the road or even pedestrians and passengers. For an alcoholic, the solution is effective, lasting treatment for the alcoholism.

The Narconon Arrowhead Drug and alcohol rehabilitation Program Offers an End to the Danger

Many people in the rehabilitation field see alcoholism as something that will last the person’s entire life, for which treatment must be never-ending. At Narconon Arrowhead, alcoholism is seen a different way. It is seen as a condition that can have an end, when the correct aspects of the addiction are thoroughly addressed.

The Narconon Arrowhead rehab program is a long-term residential program that uses no medications as part of its treatment. No other mental conditions are diagnosed and medicated. The response to alcohol addiction is to address the damage done by the addiction, restore personal integrity, help a person repair their relationships, build life skills that lay the foundation for an alcohol-free future and reduce cravings through holistic means. It takes an eight-phase recovery program to bring about all these changes.

But the proof of the Narconon program is in the results. Does the person stay sober after they go home from the program or not? At Narconon Arrowhead, seven out of ten graduates successfully lead drug-free and alcohol-free lives.

A Thorough Detoxification is Part of the Solution

One of the most innovative components to the Narconon program including Narconon Arrowhead and Narconon Vista Bay is the Narconon New Life Detoxification Program. This action uses time spent in a low-heat sauna, generous nutritional supplementation and moderate exercise to activate the body’s ability to flush out toxic residues from prior drug or alcohol abuse. These residues tend to be fat-bonding so they do not fully flush out of the body on a normal basis. But through this carefully supervised process that usually last about a month, each person can find a new brightness of viewpoint and reduced cravings for either drugs or alcohol. This helps speed each person on their way to a substance-abuse free future.

After this improvement, it is easier for a person to approach the recovery of personal integrity and the learning of new, drug-free life skills. The final action in this program is the learning of a non-denominational moral code that serves as a stable guide in one’s new, sober life.

Find out for yourself how this drug rehab facility centrally located in a beautiful state park in Oklahoma can bring an end to the drunk driving or alcoholism problems you are concerned about, whether they are yours or someone else’s. Contact Narconon Arrowhead to get the whole story. Call 1-800-468-6933 today.

References:

http://www.13abc.com/story/16321733/drunk-driving-related-deaths-surge-during-the-holidays

http://dui.lifetips.com/cat/61352/drunk-driving-facts-stats/index.html

Narconon provides both drug rehabilitation and drug education and prevention services. For more information on Narconon schools and how you can get drug prevention lectures call 800-468-6933 today.