{"id":1005,"date":"2010-04-08T02:20:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T02:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=443"},"modified":"2010-04-08T02:20:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T02:20:47","slug":"alcohol-is-a-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol is a drug."},"content":{"rendered":"

I stopped in at a Community Action for Teens’ Safe & Sober Prom Campaign <\/em>event over the weekend in Decatur, Georgia. \u00a0 At the event was a display with some of the following statistics. \u00a0 1) Traffic crashes currently are the greatest single cause of death for people ages six to 33. \u00a0 At a Driving School in Loudonville, Ohio, owner Brad Porter told me 33,000 people die on our nation’s highways every year. \u00a0 That’s the equivalent of, for instance, a half-full airliner going down: every day!<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 2) Some 45% of these traffic related deaths are alcohol related (among the six to 33-year-olds)… During some of our cross country research, we stopped at Mothers Against Drunk Driving<\/em> Headquarters<\/em> \u00a0 in Dallas, Texas. \u00a0 One room is devoted solely to a wall with the photographs of some people who had been killed in drunk driving accidents. \u00a0 From the babies, to the children, to the moms… it was tremendously impacting. A police officer at the event in Decatur said to the youth that she too had seen tremendously impacting carnage in the aftermath of some of these accident scenes… \u00a0 In Columbiana County, Ohio, several years ago, we met a former bartender who proposed to us that each state consider introducing a “drinking license.” \u00a0 One that can be revoked for various periods of time for, say, a DWI or other criminal offenses where alcohol is involved. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Program literature this day in Decatur included the following: \u00a0 “Every year more money is spent promoting the use of alcohol than any other product. \u00a0 Perhaps through its elaborate and creative marketing, the most basic, yet important fact about alcohol is often overlooked. \u00a0 Alcohol is a drug.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I stopped in at a Community Action for Teens’ Safe & Sober Prom Campaign event over the weekend in Decatur, Georgia. \u00a0 At the event was a display with some of the following statistics. \u00a0 1) Traffic crashes currently are …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}