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Addiction ✔✔a condition consisting of periodic or chronic dependence on a drug or several drugs. It creates an insatiable desire or craving to use drugs contrary to legal and/or social prohibitions.
Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC): ✔✔the percentage of alcohol in a person's blood
Divided Attention: ✔✔One of the most dangerous characteristics of alcohol use is that it reduces our ability to remain alert and attentive to several things at once.
DWI (Aggravated): ✔✔You can be charged with aggravated DWI under any of the following circumstances:
You drive with a blood alcohol concentration of .16 or higher (twice the legal limit);
You cause bodily injury to someone as a result of DWI;
You refuse to take a breath or blood test.
DWI (Driving While Impaired): ✔✔the crime of driving while impaired "to the slightest degree" by alcohol or drugs
a driver can face DWI charges even when the BAC is below .08 if a roadside sobriety test demonstrates impairment.
Implied Consent Act: ✔✔
Open Container Act: ✔✔It is against the law to have any alcoholic beverage container open within a vehicle while on any public street or road. An open container is defined as one on which the top has been removed or the seal has been broken.
Physical Dependence: ✔✔the result of physiological changes or adaptations that occur in response to the frequent presence of a drug in one's body.
Psychological Dependence: ✔✔begins when a drug produces pleasant mental effects and the individual chooses to use the drug for these effects. cannot cope with daily stresses
Roadblocks/checkpoints and their constitutionality ✔✔Roadblocks must be officially scheduled by a supervisory officer;
All vehicles must be treated equally;
Official notice of the checkpoints must be apparent; and,
