Only 16 Days Left to Get License Before New Law Takes Effect

Missouri drivers have only a few more weeks to get SATOP tests done and get their licenses renewed.

After that it will be much harder to get your license and when you do, any car you drive will have to be equipped with a breathalizer lock.

That seems so severe yet like the lawmakers, I too wonder what else could be done. Alcoholism is a disease, an addiction, and every little social and legal nuance degrades these people and leaves them with nothing except using alcohol to escape from a world they cannot function in -- not because they are alcoholics, but because they have been stripped of every avenue of improvement and recovery.

Only 16 Days Left to Get License Before New Law Takes Effect

Senate Bills 930 and 947 Passed

A new Missouri law takes effect July 1, 2009 which will make it legal to attach ignition interlock devices to family vehicles if one member of the family is an alcoholic. Better than prison but punishes entire family now.

I agree that alcoholics, whether your parent, sibling, mate, or child, all alcoholics create a heavy burden on those who love them enough to continue being responsible for them. They often fail to understand the burden of responsibility their family feels.

I don't know the answer or even where to begin to cure alcoholism. I drank alcoholic drinks during my twenties but I quickly learned that the effect was to make me stupid. I could no longer think and felt loss of control of environment so I just quit drinking any type of alcoholic drinks and have never missed it.

However, any person who shows signs of even slight drunkeness in my presence, I shun. Why not? Drunkeness is repulsive to me because the same person sober is so much more intelligent to talk to. The drunk puts out an aura of inhumanity which causes people to ignore them, repulsed by them.

Senate Bills 930 and 947 Passed

Tides are Ebbing and Flowing: Help Alcoholics or Imprison Them

Alcoholism is a disease that robs men and women of security, safety, and dignity.  It is a horrible painful life for alcoholics because he or she gradually loses family, friends, home, and freedom.  This is because the disease is misunderstood.

We all know someone who is an alcoholic.   When he or she gets to the drunk state, the main thing anyone around the drunk wants is to remove the drunk.  A drunk person is rarely perceived as a human being.  Types of drunks vary from completely insane to idiot savant.

I never waste time on a drunk.  The only thing to do is remove them from the public and keep them separated until sober.   But not removed and placed into the criminal prison system -- in that system these basically good and decent men and women sober up, yes, but their first taste of longterm sobriety is spent in a prison cell and not in their homes with families.

Tides are Ebbing and Flowing: Help Alcoholics or Imprison Them