In this excerpt from A Biography of Mrs. Marty Mann: The First Lady of Alcoholics Anonymous by Sally and David Brown, the authors provide a glimpse into early AA and what it was like for a woman trying to get sober. Read more on Sober 24.
Monitoring bracelets help rehab some habitual DWI violators, but they come with a price Diane Turbyfill Drivers convicted of drinking and getting behind the wheel can be ordered to wear unwanted accessories – ankle bracelets that monitor alcohol intake. Secured Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring, often referred to as SCRAM, is an apparatus judges can order…
By Diane Farr, Tribune Media Services Click here to read article online.
Authoritative parents better at preventing kids’ binge drinking, study finds Brigham Young University study finds that while peer influence major determinant of a child’s behaviour, parenting style is also very important Tralee Pearce From Friday’s Globe and Mail Published on Thursday, Jun. 24, 2010 8:33PM EDT Last updated on Friday, Jun. 25,…
Click here to read this Yahoo news article on Lindsay Lohan’s SCRAM alcohol monitoring bracelet.
Man volunteers to wear device that monitors alcohol use A Butte man has volunteered to wear an alcohol monitoring ankle bracelet at a personal cost of nearly $22,000 for the duration of a five-year suspended sentence for assaulting his wife. But Shane Hemphill, 33, through his lawyer, Walter Hennessey, said Thursday the device is a…
This study has some come up with some very disheartening statistics.
Pamela Bach‘s liver has been under lock and key since her last DUI hearing … in the form of an alcohol monitoring bracelet. According to court documents, a judge ordered David Hasselhoff‘s ex to wear a SCRAM device — an anklet that constantly tests the skin for the presence of booze — after she was…
The overwhelming fact is that of the 1.6 million young people between the ages of 12 and 18 with serious alcohol and drug problems, fewer than one in 10 receive treatment. Of the estimated 175,000 who do, only about 25 percent stay in treatment for three months, as recommended by the National Institute on Drug…
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