SOCIAL AND LEGAL CONSEQUENCES ASSOCIATED WITH USE OF DRUGS

An NIE Educational Activity

Questions For Discussion

Drinking, Driving And The Law

1. At what point, when drinking or using drugs, is a person no longer in
charge of his or her behavior?

2. Why are there laws about driving while intoxicated?

3. Why do you think the laws concerning alcohol are different for people
under 21 and people over 21?

The Costs Of A DUI Conviction

If you are arrested and convicted of DUI (all forms of impairment,
including marijuana, ecstasy, alcohol, etc.) what do you think the total
cost of the DUI will be (think about all the costs involved)? Use the
Mississippi Crime and Punishment Chart and include these additional costs
you will incur. Can you think of any more?

Towing charges

License restoration fee

Attorney fees

Lost work for court time

Fine at the lowest level

Court cost

Assessment and traffic school

Community service fee

Insurance increase for 3 years (this will be the greatest expense)

Social Consequences

If a person has a DUI conviction on record, what might happen when he/she
applies for a job?

When he/she applies for a scholarship or loan for a college?

When he/she applies to enlist in the military?

How would you tell your parents and siblings if you were arrested/cited for
DUI?

Discuss whether youthful offenses negatively affect other people, not just
the adolescent involved.

*DARE America
ASAPS University of Akron Study 9th-Grade Curriculum