Alcohol Rehab in California

Addicted.org help people with alcohol problems to get admitted in an alcohol rehab in California. Our caring counselors will give you the right support in your journey to sobriety. Alcohol abuse problems in California state have destroyed many relationships, families and lives for decades.

People in California with an alcohol addiction need rehabs for their addiction. There is hope to find an alcohol rehab clinic in one of the 1539 rehabs available in California and finally get their lives back.

Our treatment service philosophy is to give you some honest advice and a good support that would fit your needs. Our long term achievement is an alcohol-free world. Our immediate goal is to help you.

California alcohol situation

The big population of California makes the numbers of alcohol addicted people a very big one. In the state, there are almost four times more binge drinkers than actual alcoholics. There are approximately four million people who drink heavily (binge drinking) in a month. Some people still drink and drive and that causes over a thousand deaths in a year.

There was an estimation that half of California population have drank alcohol in the last month. There were 42,633 admissions for alcohol addiction to government funded rehabs primarily in 2006/07, which accounted for 19.7% of all treatment admissions.

In 2005, drunk driving was the cause of 1,387 fatal and 20,581 injury traffic accidents in the state of California.

• 1,574 people died.
• 30,810 people were injured.

DUI laws in California

• Alcohol concentration should not be more than .08
• Zero tolerance is .01
• Driver's licence is suspended for 4 months for the first offense
• Driver's licence is suspended for 2 Years plus mandatory jail after the second offense
• Driver's licence is suspended for 4 Years plus mandatory jail after the third offense
• It is possible to confiscate your vehicle after the 3rd offense

The above offense penalties for dui in California can be increased if there was child endangerment, injuries or death. It is possible that they install an ignition interlock system on the car.The penalties are are increased if the blood alcohol content over .15 or .20, driving over a certain speed, having minors in the car, refusing to take a chemical test, having a traffic accident, or having prior convictions. Also someone can have mandatory alcohol education and/or addiction treatment.

Alcohol info

A common side-effect to the abuse of alcohol is the famous hangover. Hangover in itself has different symptoms, such as having a headache, being extra sensitive to any sort of light or sound, having the body motion being harder to coordinate than usual, and some even get nausea and get sick because of the alcohol consumed before.

The surgeon general has determined there is no acceptable quantity of alcohol that is safe for consumption during a the time a woman is pregnant. The use of alcohol during pregnancy is a recognized factor in infant morbidity and mortality and several studies have shown unfavorable birth outcomes from the result of alcohol exposure during pregnancy. The report, Perinatal Substance Use Screening in California, identifies the long term impacts of drugs and alcohol abuse during pregnancy and the scope of the problem in California.

^{References and sources:
http://alcoholism.about.com/od/dui/a/dui_ca.htm
http://www.adp.ca.gov/FactSheets/Alcohol%20%20Use%20Fact%20Sheet%20200712.pdf}