How does someone incur legal problems as a result of drinking?

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Judith Welles Cousins
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, private practitioner
judithwellescousinslcsw.com  
703-921-1166

Judith has worked in the field of mental health and substance abuse since 1988,  She received her Masters in Social Work from Virginia Commonweatlh University in 1991 and was licensed as a clinical social worker in 1994.  In her private practice, Judith sees adults, families, children and adolescents, and couples. She addresses such issues as substance abuse, depession, anxiety, family discord, couple conflict, poor school performance, and  life transitions. Judith believes that within each individual, family, and couple are the resources to change, heal, and thrive.  Through the process of psychotherapy, she assists clients to identify and use these resources to gain personal and relational well-being.      

How does someone incur legal problems as a result of drinking?

In this video, Judy Cousins, Clinical Social Worker, will provide answers to questions regarding reasons to quit drinking. Judy will include information regarding the nature of alcohol use, the positive and negative consequences of use, and effective strategies for quitting drinking.

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Host: How does someone incur legal problems as a result of drinking?

Judith W. Cousins: A person can incur legal problems as a result of their drinking by for instance receiving a DY which involves attorney fees, which involves court fees, which almost always involves counseling fees or as another example, a person s drinking can affect can have affected their relationship in their marriage, they have extended their expensive relationship in divorce and again one is going to incur legal fees as a result of the divorce and separation. A person as a result of drinking could have gotten into fights, war fights or fights on the street and again they are going to be legal consequences as a result of that.

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