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Take a wild guess at which day of the year is the worst for underage drinking? Halloween? No. New Year’s Eve? No. Try the day before Thanksgiving that the police have dubbed ‘Black Wednesday’. They call this Black Wednesday because the kids tend to drink until they literally black out. Ask some of our victims’ [...]
Mitchel Musso, 20, a Disney Channel child star, has further tarnished the supposedly squeaking clean Disney image and was busted for drunk driving at about 3:43 a.m. on October 16, 2011 in Burbank, California. Police were suspicious when Musso failed to slow down to go around an accident scene. Burbank Police stopped Musso and was [...]
Parents be warned… Teens have found yet another way to hide underage drinking. Forget spiking the punch and Jell-o shots, teens are now spiking gumming bears or any gummy candy with alcohol. How they do this is by soaking the gummies in alcohol and then consume them for a buzz. If enough is consumed, you [...]
The Virginia Assembly passed earlier this year a new law that will provide harsher penalties for underage drinking and driving making it a Class 1 misdemeanor. This new Virginia law was created to send a message to the youth of Virginia that there will be zero tolerance on underage drinking and driving and with hopes [...]
Previous national studies have shown that about 25% of college students admitted to driving while intoxicated, and and even greater percentage admits to riding with a driver they believe to be intoxicated. A new study shows that behaviors change as students age, and the frequency of drinking and driving takes a sharp upturn once students [...]
No, they’re not changing the drinking age. In a nutshell: restrictions and penalties are getting tougher. An underage person who commits a second offense of possession of alcohol can lose their driver’s license for up to a year, whether or not they’d been driving. Currently, they would only be able to lose their license for [...]
