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THE STATE OF GEORGIA
EXECUTIVE ORDER

BY THE GOVERNOR:

WHEREAS: Businesses and health insurers alike have documented the high cost of health care for untreated alcoholics and addicts caused by a wide array of addiction related physical illnesses, accidents and injuries; and

WHEREAS: Many of the family members of persons with untreated addictions will eventually tum to welfare, Medicaid. or Medicare and shift the high health care costs to the Georgia taxpayer; and

WHEREAS:

The personal injury and property damage caused particularly by DUI offenders present significant public safety and public health challenges to Georgia to the degree that any successful effort to increase the sobriety in the population will have a beneficial effect on the health of the offender and the safety of Georgias citizens; and

WHEREAS: The General Assembly has determined that substance abuse prevention and treatment is essential to reducing the recidivism rate among DUI offenders and improving overall public health and safety; and

WHEREAS: The 1997 General Assembly passed Senate Resolution 232 creating the Joint Study Committee on the Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse. and which resolution was signed by me as Governor and became effective July 1, 1997 as Resolution Act 31;

NOW THEREFORE. PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORITY VESTED IN ME AS GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, IT IS HEREBY

ORDERED: That the following named persons be and they are hereby appointed as members of the Joint Study Committee on the Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse.

Ms. Barbara Renee Bell Bell's DUI Drug Risk Schools 180 Kissingbower Road Augusta, Georgia 30904

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Mr. George S. Braucht State Board of Pardons and Paroles 2 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive East Tower, Suite 458 Atlanta, Georgia 30334
Ms. Barbara Ann Bush 2394-F Dunwoody Crossing Atlanta, Georgia 30338
Mr. Frank Fields River Edge Behavioral Health Center
175 Emery Highway
Macon, Georgia 31201
Mr. F. Sheffield Hale Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP 1100 Peachtree Street Suite 2800 Atlanta, Georgia 30309
Dr. Elizabeth Howell Georgia Department of Human Resources Division of MHIMR/SA 2 Peachtree Street, N.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Dr. John D. Lenton Post Office Box 279 Hineville, Georgia 31310
Dr. Audrey Moffitt Georgia Department of Corrections 2 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive East Tower, Suite 852 Atlanta, Georgia 30334
Ms. Dona Robertson Georgia Bureau of Investigation 1000 Indian Springs Drive Forsyth, Georgia 31029

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Mr. James Vaughns
Georgia Center for Youth Post Office Box 966 Reynolds, Georgia 31208

Honorable Tommy Day Wilcox Macon Judicial Circuit\Superior Court 310 Bibb County Courthouse Macon, Georgia 31201

Mr. David A. Wilson
Anchor Hospital 5454 Yorketown Drive Atlanta, Georgia 30349

Ms. Bettye Jo Beatty Wilson Atlanta V.A. Medical Center 1670 Clairmont Road Decatur, Georgia 30033

IT IS FURTHER

ORDERED:

That the forenamed members shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor and shall, according to Senate Resolution 242, along with members appointed by the Lieutenant Governor and Speaker, submit a report of findings and recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly on or before December 31, 1997, and that the committee shall stand abolished on December 31, 1997.

This 15th day of October, 1997.

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