Many people will make commitments over the next week, most the time, with the idea o bettering their lives. Resolutions are great, but only if they create new habits. As I’ve mentioned here before habits are a great evolutionary tactic, but, they often can create negatives, if not continually reevaluated and adjusted. Sometimes they need […]
New Year, New Life? Read More »
Whenever someone consumes alcohol or takes impairing drugs, legal, prescribed, or otherwise, and they are away from where they intend to spend the night, they have created a gauntlet. A gauntlet of police or troopers, who are being paid to spot impairment. A gauntlet of risk to themselves, to their future freedom, their jobs, the […]
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When we own property, real or personal, we become more powerful in many ways, economically, socially, politically. But, when we own our actions, our thoughts, our mistakes as well as our successes, our power increases exponentially. Our positive growth accompanies this increase. When make the decision to no longer own what we create, that growth […]
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If you’re drinking, especially away from home, everyone needs to know how much alcohol, over what period of time is too much alcohol. The basic to work from is the blood alcohol (BA) of a 150 pound person will be moved approximately .025 per normal drink per hour. A normal drink is defined as a […]
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The NTSB is recommending a reduction in the presumptive blood alcohol level from .08 to .05. They say that it would reduce DUI related fatalities further. The states should all move very carefully in deciding to adopt. First, there are many other ways to reduce traffic related fatalities that deserve examination as priority issues. Since […]
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Those that push the envelope on getting tagged with a DUI eventually wind up with one. They’ll always wind up all that goes with it. This doesn’t mean that they will be convicted of the charge, but they will suffer the humiliation of handcuffs and arrest, the expense of the whole process, the self deprecation […]
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The next several years will see many well based challenges to current Utah laws relating to DUIs, THC metabolite and prescription drugs. DUIs that are based on alcohol or prescription drugs are very different animals and attempting to turn a driving with THC metabolite into substantially the same as a DUI in terms of punishment […]
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If you are convicted of either if these two charges you will lose you driver’s license, even if it had nothing to do with driving. People often do not understand this fact, and don’t find out until they’ve posted bail, or plead guilty, they receive notice from Driver’s License of the revocation of their license […]
Paraphanalia and Controlled Substance: Loss of License Read More »
Two courses of action are set in motion when you are arrested for DUI: administrative action by the Drivers License Bureau and criminal action by the court system. You must, in order to have any chance to save your driving privilege, within 10 day of the arrest, request a hearing in writing. That hearing will […]
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Whether you’ve created a bad situation for yourself, or someone has done that to you, it immediately becomes a time to make decisions. To limit damages and improve out of the facts, or to turn your palms up and suffer all of the consequences, that becomes your first deciding point. Then who to engage to […]
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