Effects Of Alcoholism On Our Family Members, Friends, And...

Mallory Cox Period 3 Composition 2 Local Proposal Project Abstract Liking county is dramatically affected by losses of lives due to things such as impaired driving. Ohio alone experiences 7,034 traffic deaths in one year due to impaired driving. Not all of the time the fatalities are just the impaired driver of the motor vehicles. A lot of the time the fatalities are of the people the impaired drivers hit while driving or the passengers of their vehicles. Together in Licking County we can work together to lower these statistics and rates. This organization could be the key to saving the lives of our family members, friends, and school-mates. Imagine yourself in this position, what would you do next? Make the†¦show more content†¦There are approximately 1.9% of the nation that report driving after drinking too much, and 2.2% of Ohioans in Licking county report driving after having too much to drink (M., 2016). This is an estimate and as you can imagine not every person that drives while under the influence is going to admit to it, because i t is against the law and they fear consequences. This problem does have an underlying solution that needs to be found and used to help the younger generations, adults, and any person affected by alcoholism in Licking County. The communities, families, friends, schools, sports teams and many more are affected by alcoholism daily because people make the decision to drive under the influence. There is a very well known program called LAPP. This is a program organized to help recovering alcoholics and drug addicts. There are several hundreds of people that attend LAPP after getting in trouble with the law or after being reported by a family member or someone they know that cares about them enough to recommend getting help.Little do people that that programs such as LAPP are a lot of the time uneffective because you cannot get a person to quit doing something that they simply do not want to quit doing. There has to be a reason or an incentive for most people that will give them a reason to give up the drinking that has lead to alcoholism. LAPP is unsuccessful because there are several people that attend