Did you know every 39 minutes, someone dies in a drunk-driving accident in the United States? That's about 37 people a day.
We know drinking and driving is deadly, yet it continues to happen across the country.
According to one estimate, on average, those who drive drunk will be intoxicated 80 times before being caught. In addition, studies show the odds of being involved in a fatal auto accident increase with each additional DUI arrest.
It’s a fate Shauna Zeuske tempted again and again.
In 2015, she was arrested for driving under the influence. That DUI was her third. Within a month, she’d received two more and ended up with a three-year jail sentence. She was able to get some time shaved off her sentence, but within six months of returning home, she got her sixth DUI.
When she went back to jail, she told her public defender she wanted to go to The Salvation Army. They allowed it, so she entered the Adult Rehabilitation Center program. These residential programs provide spiritual, emotional and social assistance to individuals who are experiencing a variety of social, emotional and spiritual challenges, including issues relating to substance abuse. Shauna feared she wouldn’t be able to get sober, but she stuck with it, because as she said, “she desperately wanted to stop drinking.”
And in 2021, she graduated from The Salvation Army San Diego Adult Rehabilitation Center.
She went on to manage the Transitional Living Center at The Salvation Army Door of Hope Rady Campus in San Diego, helping other women looking for transformation too.
And today, she works as a financial controller for a construction company. She recently married and continues to sponsor and mentor others through their own challenges.
Shauna is on the show to share more about her own experience on the road to recovery.
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185 State of Disaster: How The Salvation Army is adapting to a changing disaster landscape with John Berglund
184 State of Recovery: Understanding the neuroscience of addiction with Dr. Judy Grisel
183 State of Recovery: The opioid crisis and what we can do with Dr. Ricky Bluthenthal
181 State of Recovery: What is The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center program? with Major Mark Nelson
180 State of Recovery: On The Way Out in San Francisco with Steve Adami
179: Growing in numbers (and how they're doing it) with Captains Dustin and Caroline Rowe
178: Your testimony matters (and how to use it for good) with General Lyndon Buckingham
177 State of Homelessness: Why have so many efforts fallen short? with Andrew Hening
176 State of Homelessness: Chipping Away at a Complex Crisis with Steve Berg, National Alliance to End Homelessness
175 State of Homelessness: The Face of Transformation with Morgane Dussault
174 State of Homelessness: How The Salvation Army Is Responding with Lt. Colonel Mike Dickinson
173: A Vision from God That Is Specific to You with Ciara Laine Myers
172 Reflect and Renew: A New Year Journaling Session
171: What’s So Amazing About Grace? with Philip Yancey
170: Inside The Salvation Army Rose Parade Experience with Kevin Larsson and Jim Sparks
169: Born is the King with Commissioner Doug Riley
168: Appreciating the Deep Magic of Christmas with Dr. Emily Hunter McGowin
Bonus! Do What You Can With What You Have with Emily Ann Roberts
167: Celebrating the Gift of Volunteering at Christmas with Captain Edith Dye-Mabie
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