DUI-METROPOLITAN Services provides these services in English, Spanish and Polish, and have flexible schedule of classes.
DUI offenders became eligible for this level of risk if he/she has:
1. no prior conviction or court ordered supervisions for DUI, no prior statutory summary suspensions, and no prior reckless driving conviction reduced from DUI; and 2. a BAC of less than .15 as a result of the most current arrest for DUI; and 3. no symptoms of substance abuse or dependence.
Alcohol use is legal for persons age 21 and older, and the majority of people who drink do so without incident. However, there is a continuum of potential problems associated with alcohol consumption. Alcohol is the most used intoxicating substance in the United States—82 percent of people age 12 and older have used alcohol at least once in their lifetimes. And nearly half of all Americans age 12 and older—an estimated 109 million people—have used alcohol in the past month.
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Adolescents’ drinking behavior is also related to their friends’ acceptance or rejection of drinking and whether their friends drink.
Several factors may help discourage or at least postpone alcohol use. Parental support, communication, and monitoring are significantly related to whether adolescents drink, the amount they drink, and the frequency of their drinking.
About 40 percent of those who start drinking at age 15 or younger develop alcohol dependence at some point; for those who start drinking at age 21 or older, the figure is approximately 10 percent (Grant and Dawson 1997).
Preventing drinking among youth is important, not only because drinking alcohol is illegal for persons younger than age 21, but also because postponing the onset of alcohol use decreases the likelihood of developing dependence later in life.
Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
