DUI Arrest Counseling Seattle:
Helping You Rebound From Your Drunk Driving Arrest
Whether one has been arrested or not, the tendency to drive a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs reflects a profound warning signal that points toward a life threatening, insidious, and predictably lethal illness. If you have been arrested, your legal complications represent only the first preliminary step in your road to personal stabilization and recovery. The legal difficulties that you have generated from your arrest will require the help of judicial authorities, treatment professionals, and expert legal counsel.

Are You Seeking a Remedy For Your Legal Hangover?

1. Mental Health Services for Defendants Charged with DUI
2. Recovery Assistance: Rebounding from Arrest and Prosecution
3. Alcohol Drug Treatment Assessment - Diagnostic Evaluation
4. What to expect – Where to go – Who to see - What to do
   

Drunk Driving Safety Precautions: Prevent DUI in Seattle
In The United States of America, every 30-minutes someone is killed as a consequence of an alcohol related motor vehicle crash. Countless more die from the complications of alcohol related illness each day. It seems clear that no conscious individual willingly intends to create such carnage and destruction. Drunk driving fatalities too often manifest in unintentional suicide and negligent homicide.

Drunk Driving: Alcohol Dependency vs Alcohol Abuse
Learn the Distinction: Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol DependencyAlcohol dependency inevitably disintegrates families, cripples marriages, and dismantles otherwise vital career paths. Good people suffer from alcohol problems and unintentionally harm innumerable innocent others. Alcohol problems present an illness that is easily minimized and readily denied by substance users and loved ones alike. Without appropriate treatment, alcohol related disorders frequently represent a catastrophic and fatal disease.

Alcohol Treatment: Helping You Find the Right HelpFortunately, with appropriate intervention and care, alcohol and other drug problems can be successfully overcome. In order to halt progressive deterioration and unnecessary loss, authentic help is typically imperative! The behavioral health practice of Dr. Patrick J. Hart provides confidential and individualized assistance to people that are earnest about saving their lives, relationships, and livelihoods from terminal aggravation with drugs.

Arrest for Drunk Driving: DUI Lawyer Referral for Legal CounselThe behavior patterns that define chemical dependency are characterized by the individual’s inability to accurately predict the timing, amount, duration, or consequences of substance consumption: “The substance use is continued despite knowledge of having persistent or recurrent physical, legal, or psychological problems, and there is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control (i.e. predict) substance use. Furthermore, The substance is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended” (APA, 1994, p. 181).

Driving While Intoxicated: Are You Under the Influence?
The progressive nature of substance use disorders is incomprehensible to users and loved ones alike. For most of us, it seems strange that drug abuse represents behavior that is beyond voluntary control. The central feature of drug problems is a progressive loss of control over substance use, whereby drug compromised people continue, and even amplify their use – despite increasingly devastating consequences – like arrest and prosecution for driving while intoxicated. If you are a repeat offender, you may find yourself in Seattle Drug Court and incarcerated for your arrest for driving under the influence dui.

What Can I Expect Following My Arrest?•    Appearing in Court – What You Are Likely to Experience
•    Sentencing Alternatives to Jail Time – Deferred Prosecution
•    Mandated “In Home Incarceration” Electronic Monitoring
•    Court Ordered Attendance With Alcoholics Anonymous
•    Installation of Electronic “In Home Monitoring” Equipment
•    How You Will Operate the Electronic Surveillance Monitor
•    Automobile “Ignition Interlock” Breath Alcohol Analyzer
•    Schedule Demands for “Work Release” In Home Detention
•    Blood Alcohol Level at Time of Arrest: Consequence Severity
•    Revocation and Suspension of Drivers License Privileges
•    Sentencing Guidelines - Matrix for Repeat DUI Offenders
•    Urinalysis Testing for the Presence of Drugs and Alcohol
•    Limits of Confidentiality and Releases of DUI Information
•    Beware! Electronic Monitor Dismantles Your Phone Services


 Counseling to Help You Cope With Court Appearances•    Referral Contacts to DUI Lawyers and Medical Experts
•    Diagnostic Assessment and Candid Evaluation
•    Detox and Treatment Matching Recommendations
•    Relapse Prevention and Harm Reduction Strategies
•    Sobriety Skills and Behavior Management Support
•    Amelioration of Humiliation, Embarrassment, Shame
•    Counseling Services for Families Spouses Children

Deferred Prosecution: Drunk Driving Arrest and The Law
Outpatient Treatment Matching: Alcohol Drug AssessmentPlease recognize that if you are granted the option for “Deferred Prosecution” of your DUI offense, this will require a formal “State Registered Two-Year Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program.” My practice can assist you in choosing an appropriate State Certified Recovery Center, an attorney, or proper medical care.  However, I must emphasize that my practice does not offer formalized deferred prosecution two-year intensive treatment options! As a psychotherapist I am prepared to assist you or your family with individualized mental health care and personalized strategies for the resolution of substance abuse problems.

This counseling practice has been designed to help you restore your mental status and make informed choices about your psychological and physical well-being. I will not willingly appear in court to testify in your behalf, nor will I present as a forensic specialist or character witness.

I hope to help you get your actions, intentions, and emotions back on-track. I will assist you with coping skills that may help you rebound from your present legal and interpersonal crises.

As a psychotherapist, my role is to assist you in the maintenance of safety, to reestablish control of your life, and to help you avoid the grueling travesties associated with alcohol and other drug use. I am dedicated to the promotion of wellness. Consequentially, I will not help you maintain or protect your relationship with substance abuse. I hope to help you prevent further damage and demoralization with drug use.

Dr. Patrick J. Hart
Alcohol  Dug Assessment
Treatment Matching for Inpatient and Intensive Outpatient Programs
206-547-HELP
206-769-STOP

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Every 30 Minutes Someone Dies in an Alcohol Related Crash

Every 30 minutes someone dies in an alcohol-related crash. Alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes killed nearly 17,000 people in 2002 alone (latest figures available). Alcohol is a factor in 6% of all traffic crashes, and over 40% of all fatal crashes.

• If you are drinking, do not drive. If you plan to drink, designate a non-drinking driver.
• Support the strengthening and vigorous enforcement of impaired-driving laws. These laws save lives.
• Young drivers are at particular risk to be involved in alcohol-related crashes. If there is a young driver in your family, strictly enforce a zero tolerance policy with alcohol. All states have a 21-year-old drinking age law.
• Your best defense against a drunk driver is wearing your safety Belt