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Frequently Asked Questions?

How can I help my boyfriend?  He drives drunk all the time. 
1.  Al-anon, http://www.al-anon-alateen.org/,  helps people understand how to not enable alcoholics.  They may be able to help you confront him more effectively.

2.  Some people take the path of reporting  people they care about but who just are not seeking treatment, report them to the police, so they can be arrested and face their problems through the courts.  If he were arrested in Holladay or Taylorsville he could get the opportunity to go through the terrific drug court program to get to sobriety and clean up the rest of his life.  She could get someone else to  report him, if she doesn't want to do it herself.  To make an arrest for dui law enforcement must be able to follow him as he drives to give them "cause" to pull him over ( weaving or no lights on, etc.) If he regularly drinks and drives on a certain path and time, she could give the police the license number and description of the car, where it is and where it is going.  This is what one of our members did to finally stop his father in law from destructing on alcohol, before he hurt himself and others any more than he'd already hurt them.  Sometimes this is love.

3.  It is good to realize that at some point, only the alcoholic can make the change, no matter how much you love them and want them to get better.  At some point, if he doesn't change, it may be wise to take a hard look at what you want from your life, and if this constant struggle nowhere is not it, go  find it.  Your happiness is up to you, not others.

4.  There are counseling service Judicial Supervision Services, http://www.fcaonline.org/jsp.htm, that has an excellent alcohol and drug counseling staff who could do an assessment and then on the basis of that private services to them if she could get him to go.  If he won't go for an assessment, then this is a clear message of what she is working with, so she may have to look at options other than staying and having him change.
How you can help fight drunk driving?
Would you like to help remind people to NEVER DRINK AND DRIVE?

It's simple.
Just add a signature to your outgoing emails.
Contact your friends and relatives and
ask them to do the same thing.

Here's how:

Go to Outlook Express.
Click "Tools"
Click "Options"
Click "Signatures"
Click "Signature Settings"
Click "New"

Type  your message in the box "Edit Signatures" then click "OK."
Find "Signature Settings at the top, check the box
"Add signature to all outgoing messages."
(Use a loved ones name or use one on the Wall of Memory."

Below is an example of an email signature.

Lizz Phillips, 16
Killed by drunken driver
August 19, 1995
Salt Lake Citiy, Utah
NEVER DRINK AND DRIVE

 

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