His life has been a series of marriages, divorces, DUIs and treatments. Finally, I was ready to listen. I'd run out of alibis. He figured if he stayed sober and kept going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, he wouldn't keep messing his life up and ending up in treatment or prison. Furthermore, AA was free.
Yesterday is gone, but today is here and tomorrow is coming.
All I can do is live responsibly today and tomorrow. Stiffer laws work DUI standards are tougher today, and most experts agree that's making a difference. Montana Highway Patrol officers wrote 2,574 tickets for DUI in 1998, down 6.5 from the year before. About 29 percent of drivers in fatal crashes had been drinking last year, compared with almost 33 percent the year before. Col. Craig Reap, former Highway Patrol chief, recalled that half the drivers involved in fatal accidents in the 1980s had used alcohol.