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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
“Many respondents reported higher rates of past-month drug and alcohol use. The rate of past-month alcohol use grew with household income: 40% of lower-income households, 45.96% of middle-income households and 52.69% of high-income households.” https://sflcn.com/study-shows-how-south-florida-residents-are-coping-with-covid-19-based-on-income-level/…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Nadine Kaslow, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University provides some guidance on coping with COVID-19 pandemic stress to the readers of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She says, “During these warm, spring days, just being outside can be a pleasant experience. Consider planting…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
Airport administration officials in Moscow say an intoxicated, forty year old man drove his car into the airport terminal departure gate. Video footage shows the car drive past a check-in desk and into a departure gate before going back outside to a railway terminal. As you might expect, authorities…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
The Red Cross has medical treatment facilities at Oktoberfest, one of Germany’s biggest celebrations that treat up to 10,000 people every year. “About 800 celebrants become what Germans call Bierleichen—‘beer corpses,’ or people who drink so much they fall unconscious.” -- Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Some lies are easier to detect than others. A Washington State Trooper saw an intoxicated driver who, after he noticed the officer, turned into a driveway and pulled into an empty garage. He was trying to convince the Trooper this was his home. Trooper Trevor Downey had no problem detecting the false…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
ANGER Robert Caton apparently had had a little too much to drink. Employees at the Tesco store in Andover, England refused to sell him anymore. The agitated Caton simply returned to his Rolls Royce and drove it through the front window crashing into the store and injuring six people. -- World Magazine,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 18 views
FORGIVENESS In 1992, a horrible Christmas Eve DWI crash that claimed the lives of a mother and her three daughters shocked residents of the state of New Mexico. Three years later, a court convicted Gordon House, a onetime high school basketball star and the executive director of a halfway house for troubled…