Hancock County Indiana Court Alcohol & Drug Education Program. 20 Hour Class

Indiana Court Alcohol & Drug Program and Substance Abuse Education Course. Twenty (20) Hour CADP Online Class.

Indiana OWI (Operating a Motor Vehicle While Intoxicated), DWI (Driving While Intoxicated) Alcohol & Drug Education Program

If you’ve been charged with driving while intoxicated or any other alcohol or drug offenses in Hancock County in the state of Indiana, you may need to take an alcohol, drug, or substance abuse program for the court. The courts may provide their own CADP, court administered alcohol and drug education program or may request to take the online course. The online class is usually the 20 hour program in Indiana. You may take the 20 hours at your convenience. The court may give you a date the course needs to be completed.

Alcohol is the most commonly used substance abuse in the United States: Approximately 17.6 million people, or about one in every 12 people, suffer from alcohol abuse or alcohol dependence along with several million more who have binge drinking patterns that could lead to severe alcohol problems.

In many jurisdictions, an OWI, OVI, DUI, DWI charge occurs when the driver or operator of a motor vehicle has enough alcohol content in their blood that the driver has lost the use of their “normal mental and physical faculties”. This is defined by many standards as a B.A.C. (blood alcohol concentration) of .08.

According to the Center for Disease Control, every day, 28 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This is one death every 51 minutes. The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than

$44 billion.

More than half of all adults have family members who have a history of alcoholism or problem drinking, and more than 7 million children live in a household where at least one parent is dependent on or has abused alcohol on a regular basis.

Alcohol abuse and alcoholism can affect all aspects of a person’s life. Long-term alcohol use can cause serious health complications (heart, liver, and kidney failure just to name a few), can damage emotional stability, finances, career, and impact one’s family, friends and community.

Opiates are now the leading abused drug in the USA. Opiate based pain pills are the single greatest overdose medicines in American. Opiates such as Oxycontin, Percocet, Vicodin, Morphine, and Loratab are the leading cause of overdose deaths each year. Opiate are surprisingly easy to get. In fact, an estimated 210 million prescriptions for opiates were dispensed in 2010 alone. Frighteningly, prescription opiate drug abusers are far more likely to eventually develop a heroin addiction than a non-opiate abuser, as heroin will offer a similar high at a cheaper price.

Over time, excessive alcohol use, both in the form of heavy drinking or binge drinking, can lead to numerous health problems, chronic diseases, neurological impairments and social problems, including but not limited to:

• • Dementia, stroke and neuropathy ailments
    
    
  • Cardiovascular (Heart) problems, including myocardial infarction (Heart Attack), cardiomyopathy, atrial fibrillation (AFIB) and hypertension
    
    
  • Psychiatric problems, including depression, anxiety, and suicide
    
    
  • Social problems, including unemployment, lost productivity, domestic family problems, domestic violence including child mistreatment, fights and homicide
    
    
  • Unintentional injuries, such as motor-vehicle traffic crashes, falls, drowning, burns and firearm injuries.
    
    
  • Increased risk for many kinds of cancers, including liver, mouth, throat, larynx (voice box), stomach and esophagus
    
    
  • Liver diseases, including fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver
    
    
  • Gastrointestinal problems, including pancreatitis, ulcers and gastritis
    
    
  • Alcohol abuse or dependence on alcohol – alcoholism.
    
    

Operating a Motor Vehicle While Intoxicated in Indiana

Indiana First Offense OWI DWI

• You will have to pay court costs and fees in excess of $300.
  
  
• You may receive a jail sentence of up to one year.
  
  
• You will be fined up to $5,000.
  
  
• Your license may be suspended up to two (2) years, or
  
  
• You may be placed on probation and be required to enroll in, and pay for, a substance abuse education course. Your license may also be suspended for a minimum of 30 days followed by a 180-day probationary period in which you can only drive for employment purposes.
  
  
• You may be required to attend a victim impact panel.
  
  
• You may be required to submit to urine testing for drugs and alcohol.
  
  
• You may also face other terms of probation.
  
  

Second Offense

• You will be imprisoned for a minimum of five days or up to three years, and/or be required to perform community service.
  
  
• You will be fined up to $10,000.
  
  
• Your license will be suspended at least 180 days and up to two years.
  
  
• You will also face other terms of probation listed under first offense.
  
  

Third Offense

• You may be imprisoned for a minimum of 10 days and up to three years and/or be required to perform community service.
  
  
• You will be fined up to $10,000.
  
  
• Your license will be suspended for a least one year and may be suspended for up to 10 years.
  
  
• You may be adjudged as a habitual traffic violator.
  
  
• You may be charged and sentenced as a habitual substance offender, for which you may be imprisoned for an additional term of one year and up to an additional eight years.
  
  
• You will also face other terms of probation listed under first offense.