Upon leaving your residential treatment program, it quickly becomes evident that the old friends, bad habits and dangerous situations that led to your addiction can quickly cloud your newly sober judgement. The fact is, staying sober after treatment is HARD. All of this negativity, the mere thought of getting the help you need and then relapsing shortly after, may seem like a doom and gloom cycle, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Recovery takes hard work, dedication and commitment-but sobriety is possible. A sober living facility can help you stay on the path of recovery and will minimize your risks of early relapse following the time that you spend in a residential treatment setting. Each sober house features a set of rules that help to keep the residents of the home on the path to continued healing and sobriety. Much like a treatment center, Deals sober living facilities will require that residents abstain from the use of drugs or alcohol and they often require random testing to ensure this continued abstinence.
Unlike a treatment center though, a sober house provides residents with more lenience to come and go, work, and live their lives. Residents are not confined to the home, and are encouraged to work, attend school and have a social life. Early residents often have more frequent drug or alcohol screenings, earlier bedtimes or curfews and stricter overall rules than those who have proven their ability to remain sober even with the lenience that is provided in the sober house. As time goes on, residents who continue to stay sober, Deals take part in group support and maintain the rules of the sober house will gradually see that their limitations are reduced. While each sober house has its own set of rules, most of the time the rules center around common denominators of staying sober, respectful and in control of your recovery. As in school or work, breaking certain rules may lead to immediate grounds for eviction from the home, while breaking other rules may just lead to consequences such as a loss of privileges. Abstaining from the use of drugs or alcohol. Submitting to random or scheduled drug or alcohol screenings. A rtic le has been gener ated by GSA Conte nt Generator DEMO!
Arrested for a DUI but feel that you passed your standardized field sobriety tests (SFST)? As a private DUI defense lawyer in Missoula, MT I can tell you that almost every DUI client I have had has thought that they have "passed" the field sobriety tests the police administered. Unfortunately, they were wrong. All of them. In this post, I’ll explain the three types of SFSTs, ozma.one what they’re designed to do, and how they are not a Pass or Fail test - even if you’re sober. What Are Field Sobriety Tests? FSTs, as we call them, are nationally recognized drills taught to all law enforcement officers capable of arresting someone for a DUI. These vary from state to state somewhat, but overall, the vast majority of the country uses 3 different drills. The thing about these drills are that they are not pass-or-fail "tests" like you might think. Instead, I call them drills, because law enforcement is trained to put you into a scenario that is intended to make both sober and intoxicated people show "cues" of possible alcohol intoxication.
Did you know that these drills are not 100% accurate even if administered correctly? Officers are trained that a significant percentage of the population will show "cues" on these drills even if completely sober. No matter what you do on these drills, you can’t pass them. Similarly, you can’t really fail them - although falling over and being utterly unable to stand on your own feet is pretty close. Police officers are supposed to administer and grade these three drills and write down any "cues" that vary from their instructions in a standardized process. Law enforcement only notes the amount of cues shown, but does not provide a pass or fail score. The first test is called the HGN or Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus drill. Nystagmus is the medical term for a jumping of the eye. The officers move a stimulus (often a pen, or just a finger) around in front of you in a specific manner to test for this jumping.
The officer is supposed to look for this jumping of the eye during the drill, because alcohol causes Nystagmus. Police don’t tell you that Nystagmus occurs naturally in people for at least 40 different reasons and is not accurate in some of the population. The other problem is, the test doesn’t really test amount of alcohol, just the presence of jumping that may or may not be caused by alcohol or drugs. If an officer is truthful, they would tell you that the more alcohol consumed, the greater the Nystagmus or jumping is in the eye. So why is there a drill that looks just for jumping, when police are trying tell the amount of alcohol consumed? These drills are intended to give law enforcement some subjective signs of alcohol intoxication - regardless of how flawed the drill is. There are many, many ways in which an experienced DUI defense attorney can establish how flawed this drill is at trial.