The Chicago Tribune recently report on how restaurants and bars are being required by insurance companies as a prerequisite to cover to train waiters, waitresses and bartenders on when to say when.  Can you say two drink maximum?  I’d like a glass of wine with dinner?  I’m sorry sir you already had two cocktails at the bar we […]

Athens Clarke County Officer Gregory Gilchrist, 36, was arrested on a drunken-driving charge early Thursday, (February 15, 2007) morning in southeastern Clarke County.  An unknown type of chemical test indicated that he had a blood-alcohol content level of 0.185 although it is not clear if this was a field breath test, a blood test or […]

After a 2006 St. Louis Rams Football game this fall an Illnois Circuit Judge refused field test, a blood test and threw away a beer can after an accident with injuries. The police indicated that the Judge who had his chief judge as a passenger had a strong odor of alcohol, slurred speech and red […]

A MADD spokesperson announced their intention of seeking to increased penalties for DUI offenders making a 2nd conviction in 5 years for DUI a felony and a third lifetime DUI conviction a felony as well in the 2007 Georgia legislative session. Again our freedoms are never more in jeopardy than when the legislature is in […]

Homeland Security’s Immigration Control and Enforcement began a three day sting on Friday Jan 13th, 2007, arresting those with pending DUI charges and DUI convictions who are not citizens in an operation titled Safe Streets. Ordinarily illegal immigrants are only subject to deportation for serious felonies or offenses which include at least a 12 month […]

The Ocean City Police Department’s in the State of Maryland is scrambling to explain why it let a drunk politician off the hook. It is waging a public relations campaign to explain to the public that field sobriety evaluations are relative and not pass/fail. This is testimony that you would never hear on the witness […]

300 DUI Breath tests in 300 DUI prosecutions in Broward County, Florida were thrown out of court because the Area Supervisors in Florida calibrated the Intox breath testing machines with tap water containing unknown chemicals instead of using laboratory certified distilled water. The Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal upheld the trial court judge’s ruling […]

By Chip Parkhurst a guest columnist to the ocregister.com.
It is time to re-evaluate our attitudes about alcohol and other drugs.
In purely objective terms, beverage alcohol is a recreational hard drug: mind-numbing, easy to misuse and intimately connected with aggression, carelessness, and despair. When a drugged individual is involved in a violent crime or an accident, […]

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DUI a prescription for jail time

— By Debby Schamber
The Orange Leader
Driving under the influence of prescription medications has become a more common occurrence in Orange.
“There has been an increase of DUI versus DWI because of an increase of people being on prescription medication,” said Sgt. L.L. Claybar of the Orange Police Department.
According to reports, shortly […]