MADD was created like most organizations because there was someone or a small group of people that saw a need in the community. In the case of the organization MADD, a woman by the name of Candy Lightner after her daughter’s life was tragically taken in May of 1980 by a repeat drunk driver founded "Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD)"(www.madd.org). The organization’s purpose and goal was to bring a change to the awareness and attitudes the public carriers in regard to drunk driving. Also, they sought a change in the way the judicial system dealt with those convicted.
Michael Trolander MADD Essay In 1980, a heartbroken mother gave birth to one of the greatest charities in our nation. Her name was Candy Lighter and after she lost her 13-year-old girl, Cari Lighter, to a drunk driver she pledged to herself that she would make a change. Candy soon inspired a handful l of mothers to join her cause and help bring a stop to drunk driving. Today, Mothers Against Drunk Driving is one of the largest charities in the United States of America. The history of MADD is a long and prosperous one; they have opened the public to the devastating effects of drunk driving.
Pregnant Addicts: The Best Outcome for Mother and Child Kimberly Brooks Ottawa University OAD 40654 Health Care Law and Ethics January 15, 2013 Richard Hardy Pregnant Addicts: The Best Outcome for Mother and Child Introduction Illegal drugs and/or alcohol used by addicted women during pregnancy pose a significant health problem. Since the 1970’s prosecutors have made the use of illegal drugs a complex legal question. They have included criminal child abuse, criminal child mistreatment and attempted to charge mother’s with attempted first degree murder or even intentional homicide when the fetus or child does not live. State appellate courts have almost uniformly found criminal prosecution
Hypothetical Working Agreement BSHS/322 Melissa BBBBB 07/04/2012 Silvia Gerges Freydia is a 27-year-old mother who has been using crack cocaine for 4 years. Her children, ages 7 and 9, have been removed from her care by Child Protective Services and are currently living with her mother. Freydia comes to the drug program saying, “I want to get my children back.” This is something wonderful to “want”. If Freydia is willing to do “whatever it takes”, getting recovery and staying sober a great and attainable goal. Although first and foremost is helping the client understands her rights to confidentiality, and have her sign required paperwork.
“In 1984, in response to the kidnapping and murder of his child Adam, John Walsh founded the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). NCMEC serves as a resource in providing assistance to parents, children, law enforcement, schools, and the community in recovering missing children and raising public awareness about ways to help prevent child abduction” (Law Dict). In 1996, the kidnapping and murder of Amber Hagerman in Texas inspired the Dallas/Fort Worth Association of Radio Managers and local law enforcement agencies in north Texas to create the nation's first "AMBER Alert" plan. “AMBER, in addition to being Amber Hagerman's first name, also serves as an acronym for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response. "Amber Alert" plans allow the development of an early warning system to help find abducted children by broadcasting information over radio and television to the public as quickly as possible.
The Overview of the video “The Meth Epidemic” was about the history of meth use around America throughout the early 90’s and 2000’s, the pharmaceutical companies and their involvement, the crimes and effects the drug had on people lives. Implications for community health on the issue of the meth epidemic can be good. People within our field of work can try and help individuals who are having problems with the drug by trying to help them get off by hosting preventions classes especially in the west coast region where it’s most used out there. The class can talk about why the drug is bad backing it up with statistics and recent reports, physical and mental symptoms of the drug and how it affects people and their live to try and raise awareness. My personal impressions on this video were that it did a good job on presenting the viewers with statistics and critical information about meth and its findings nationwide.
One can find more information about this stage of development of the American society from primary sources. Nannie Alderson (1942) describes the life of American women in the small towns of the West in her book A Bride Goes West. Some of the experts from the book point out to significant changes in the American people’s minds regarding the role that women played in society. In her book, Alderson also describes the reverse side of free relations and feminization. She writes, “Two-thirds of the women [engaged in prostitution] died young from sexually transmitted diseases, botched abortions, alcohol abuse, narcotics abuse, suicide, or murders.” The same shift in public mind regarding the family values is described in Galen’s Epitaph on a Tombstone.
Brittney Caine English 101-024 Professor Benjamin Draft 1 Argumentative Essay: Should Drunk Drivers Be Imprisoned On First Offense? People lose their lives every second of everyday. One of the leading causes of deaths is motor vehicle accidents, and one of the leading causes of motor vehicle accidents is drunk driving. Drunk driving is a problem that can be fixed. In my opinion, the one way to fix this problem is by imprisoning the offenders on their first offense.
The VAWA created several guidelines to avoid domestic violence, and protect women. These guidelines are creating safe homes and streets for females, equal justice in courts, reduction of domestic violence and stalking, protection and more safety for abused women and children from abroad, and strengthening the already existing laws. The American Journal of Public Health published a case study in 2003 to explore the reasons for domestic violence, and the term Femicide, which is used to explain that a partner killed his or her female spouse, has been created. The homicide of women started to attract more awareness, and the expression Femicide increased the awareness that there is such a thing as domestic violence against women. The case study discovered that there are multiple reasons to be more likely to become a victim of domestic violence.
Shaquila Burks English 21B Dixon 4/29/14 Teen Driving Teen Driving Essay Teens and driving, a mixture that can turn deadly. In the article "The Dangers of Teen Driving" by Joseph K. Vetter and Fran Lostys, they discuss the risks and dangers surrounding teen driving. They say more than 5,000 teenagers die in car accidents every year. At the beginning of the article the authors give examples of teen deaths directly caused by teen driving. Speeding, texting while driving and other distractions played a part in the deaths.