Hello,

I was just wondering watching this youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOVQF6Hdv5E :

What is the extend of responsability of others using drugs or taking alcohol?

In pubs, they aren't necessarily obliged to give alcohol to someone if he is completely drunk.
Anyhow, drugs are prohibited.

Tuxi

Are you talking legal or moral?

For those who first think legal, ... sorry, that makes me sad.

I can't speak French but can get the gist of that video which shows a man getting into a bad accident after leaving a gathering having drunk too much alcohol, and his condition is noticeable to the others there.

At the face level it can appear to be the varieties of "self beware" and "tragic situation for a person"; however ... what about other people? What if that accident was not a single car, single person accident? What if an entirely innocent person or persons were injured or killed as a result of an accident caused by an impaired person? And of course, what about that person, their self?

How would you "feel" about that? Forget whether or not they recently left your house and there were any legal liability about it all, how would you feel if you had the power to intervene, did not, and then something such as this, or worse, happened?

Ethically, you have to do everything you can to stop them from driving while intoxicated. You should also do everything you can to help them with their drug problem (alcohol is also a drug, one of the most damaging in fact).

It should be part of school education to avoid/inhibit bad, harmful acts. Atleast newer generation can be seeded from the start. Good Socialization of adults should be part of government health activities.

It is sad. ... but you cannot do anything because you would go against their rights, no?
They are adult and you cannot do much actually, no?

maybe some possible law will prevent you to stop them/him/her taking the car (even completely damn drunk or drugged)

there are rights concerning some freedoms:
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

Their rights end where someone else's safety begins. Not to mention that people who are intoxicated are not competent at making decisions.

You can actually arrest them yourself as a citizen and call the police to prevent them from driving drunk, and you should if you care about their lives as well as the lives of the people they might kill driving while intoxicated (maybe your own family).

So, there is no question about it, if someone is intoxicated, stop them if you can (or get their license plate) and call the police.

I'm usually not for any government actions or interference. If I were, I'd make everyone who wanted to use drugs, legal or not, to spend a weekend at a hospital. They'd get to see the actions of their hobby.

But the addicts like to do it all of that in all of this world. Just like others (non -addicts).