| How many drinks does it take to take the life of | | | | the way you want to be remembered? |
| someone else? Just one. In a society that downplays | | | | We need to think about things like this because |
| the seriousness behind drinking alcohol, we need to | | | | alcohol can create gruesome situations for our loved |
| take it upon ourselves to know our limits and to be | | | | ones as well as for ourselves if we are not careful. |
| smart when we go out and drink alcohol. We may | | | | Keep in mind that it is never healthy to go out with |
| think that we are ok to drive because we feel "fine," | | | | friends or loved ones with the sole purpose of |
| but remember that all it takes to impair your | | | | getting drunk. If you do go out and know that the |
| judgement is one alcoholic beverage. With the | | | | possibility is out there that you might have a few |
| population continuing to grow, we really cannot | | | | drinks, make sure that you plan ahead. Do you have |
| afford to risk drinking alcohol and getting behind the | | | | a designated driver to drive you home? Letting |
| wheel. Can you think of other reasons why drinking | | | | someone know that you'll need to be picked up later |
| alcoholic beverages prior to driving might not be such | | | | that night is better than risking your life or the life of |
| a hot idea? | | | | others to drive yourself home. You can only be lucky |
| Put yourself in someone else's shoes. If you were | | | | so many times before you're suddenly not. Rolling the |
| ever drunk and knowingly got behind the wheel and | | | | windows down or turning up the music is no way to |
| still arrived home safely, consider yourself lucky- not | | | | sober up. The only way to make sure that you are |
| smart. What you did was not only incredibly stupid in | | | | sober enough to drive is by not drinking at all. |
| the fact that it demonstrates your lack of good | | | | If you find that you are faced with a lot of drinking |
| judgement, but it could've very well resulted in your | | | | versus driving situations, then you need to take a |
| death or the death of someone else. Pretty sobering, | | | | really long and hard look at yourself and at the type |
| isn't it? When I was a police officer, my colleagues | | | | of life that you are leading. What sorts of people are |
| once responded to an accident in which four young | | | | you hanging out with that they allow or encourage |
| men had been drinking alcoholic beverages. The "least | | | | you and others to become inebriated? Are these |
| drunk" of the four got behind the wheel. None of | | | | really people that you want to call "friends"? |
| them were wearing their seat belts. They were | | | | Sometimes prevention is better than cure. You don't |
| speeding down a road late at night. When the road | | | | have to wait until you get your first DWI to have |
| curved, they overcompensated and flew off the | | | | the 'wake up call' you needed to get your life in |
| road, crashing into a cement structure. These four | | | | order. You are in charge of yourself as well as your |
| men were all ejected from the vehicle, and parts of | | | | destiny. Grab a hold of the reins now and do the |
| them were found in the nearby trees. Is that really | | | | right thing so that you don't live with regrets later. |