MODULE 3: DUI PREVENTION (A). Alcohol is a colorless, odorless, volatile, pungent drug that acts as a depressant. The effects of alcohol are a general depressing of the functions of the brain and body. Depressing of these functions begins at the first sip of alcohol.The only safe amount of alcohol to consume and then drive is none. Alcohol often makes the individual tired and drowsy. Alcohol affects you differently at different times. 2  If you are upset, over-tired, have an empty stomach, drugs or alcohol will probably have a stronger effect on you. 3  The amount of alcohol in a one ounce shot of 80 proof whiskey, five ounce glass of wine and 12-oz. beer is all the same.
A school shooting is a form of mass shooting attack on an educational institution, such as a school or university. School shootings have sparked a political debate over gun violence, zero tolerance policies, and gun control. The United States has the highest number of school-related shootings. From 2013 to October 2015 there were 142 school shootings in the United States.
Mass shootings in America: the year since Sandy Hook. Massacres like the one that killed 27 at Sandy Hook Elementary School a year ago are rare, but there have been 23 mass-shootings in the US since. This interactive defines a mass-shooting as four or more people shot dead in a single incident. More detail below. Twenty-three mass shootings have occurred in the US in the year since the Sandy Hook school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, leaving more than 100 dead across 17 states. Today marks the anniversary of the Newtown shooting, in which Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School.