| People have appreciated both the taste and effects | | | | alcoholic beverages can spell disaster for a driver. |
| of alcohol for thousands of years. However, it has only | | | | If you drink and drive with a blood alcohol content over |
| been in recent decades that we have had to worry | | | | the legal limit, you can be charged with a DUI or DWI. If |
| about the combination of drinking and driving. Alcohol | | | | you make the mistake of intoxicated driving with a |
| can disrupt your ability to drive, and it can also trick you | | | | child passenger, you can also be charged with child |
| into thinking that you are sober enough to drive when | | | | endangerment. Child endangerment laws are in place |
| actually you are not. This can lead to crimes such as | | | | to hold adults responsible for their actions around |
| driving while intoxicated and child endangerment. | | | | children. If an adult risks a child's safety due to |
| Alcohol works as a depressant on the brain. The brain | | | | negligence, recklessness, or indifference, he or she can |
| uses two types of transmitters, excitatory signals and | | | | be charged with this crime. |
| inhibitory signals, in order to function. Alcohol enhances | | | | Child endangerment applies to everything from leaving |
| the effects of the primary inhibitory. This is why alcohol | | | | a child alone in a car to making drugs in front of a |
| makes you slur your words and trip over your feet. As | | | | minor. Additionally, many states consider DWI with a |
| for driving skills, alcohol can cause delayed reaction | | | | child in the car as child endangerment as well. This is a |
| speeds and decreased coordination. Also, you will | | | | very serious combination of crimes that can have a |
| notice a difficulty to reach rational decisions and a | | | | permanent negative effect on your record and |
| predilection for recklessness. Overall, these effects of | | | | reputation. |