NTSB Says Dropping Legal Limit for Blood-Alcohol Level in Drivers Will Save Lives

Published May 19, 2013

NTSB says dropping legal limit for blood-alcohol level in drivers will save lives

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… in perfectly safe behavior," Longwell said. Pat Bird, prevention program manager for Utah County Department of Drug and Alcohol Prevention and Treatment, said another approach to reducing impaired driving fatalities would be to investigate the …
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Can Court-ordered Rehab Work?

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Still, statistics show just how challenging recovering from addiction can be: The best rehab programs find that about 55 percent of their patients are clean at the 1-year mark, Seppala said. That might seem low, but Seppala points out that it compares …
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Mothers Convicted of Felonies May Get Chance to Stay Out of Prison

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He has set up several such programs for men and women, like assignment to residential drug treatment centers rather than jail. At the news conference on Wednesday, he repeatedly emphasized how wasteful prison was for those imprisoned and for …
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