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Additionally, some states impose an additional requirement that a person attend a Victim Impact Panel (VIP) administered by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), which was established in 1982. Both DUI classes and Victim Impact Panels are available in some states for first offense DUIs dependent on the judge's decision. [45]
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is a non-profit organization in the United States, Canada (MADD Canada) and Brazil that seeks to stop driving with any amount of alcohol in the bloodstream, support those affected by drunk driving, prevent underage drinking, and strive for stricter impaired driving policy, whether that impairment is caused by alcohol or any other drug.
One such program is the Victim Impact Panel (VIP), administered by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) since 1982. MADD typically charges a $25 " donation " (which is defined as voluntary), even for court-mandated attendance; MADD reported $2,657,293 one year for such donations on its nonprofit tax-exempt returns.
In 2018, James Herndon, a former game warden, was beaten by Henderson police officers after intervening during an armed shoplifting incident at a sporting goods store where he worked. Officers tackled Herndon alongside the fleeing suspect and used excessive force, including punches, kicks, a Taser, and striking him with the butt of an M4 rifle.
As chairman of the Northern Kentucky chapter of People Advocating Recovery, Merrick has advocated for greater access to naloxone, the drug that can revive a heroin overdose victim, tirelessly passed out free naloxone kits, and pressed the medical establishment to start treating addicts with Suboxone.
Toby Fischer lives in South Dakota, where just 27 doctors are certified to prescribe buprenorphine -- a medication that blunts the symptoms of withdrawal from heroin and opioid painkillers. A Huffington Post analysis of government data found nearly half of all counties in America don't have such a certified physician. So every month, Fischer and his mother drive to Colorado to pick up their ...
A free clinic or walk in clinic is a health care facility in the United States offering services to economically disadvantaged individuals for free or at a nominal cost. The need for such a clinic arises in societies where there is no universal healthcare, and therefore a social safety net has arisen in its place. [ 1 ]
In more recent years, there's been a push to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day, including by Native American activists and historians who have called for a reassessment of the ...