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I think the biggest challenges that we
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face are are getting our clients to
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understand the the system and how it
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works my plan is always to get a client
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and alcohol assessment immediately even
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before court so that there’s two things
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that could do that could either prove
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that there is not an alcohol problem and
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this was truly a one-time incident or it
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could show that alcohol has been a
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problem for a little bit longer and has
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dramatically or even just a little bit
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of impacted someone’s life and they
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could be in some sort of denial and that
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is the biggest challenge is getting
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people to understand that I’m sending
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them for an evaluation to help them not
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to make them look like they have an
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alcohol problem a lot of people will ask
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well doesn’t that make me look like an
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alcoholic and I have to explain that no
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it’s not what it is is to make sure that
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everyone understands if you have an
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issue with alcohol what to do to help
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and if you don’t have one then you do
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some educational courses as opposed to
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some inpatient or serious outpatient
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rehabilitation
Royal Oak, MI criminal defense lawyer Samuel J. Bennett talks about the biggest challenges of handling OWI (Operating While Intoxicated) cases.