I'm so sorry for what happened to your family Fame. I was not aware of that. My heart goes out to you.

I've seen a couple of alcoholics. In one particular situation, I had no idea one of my friends was alcoholic, took her to a bar in Tuscaloosa and things got out of hand for her. Thankfully I'd only drank tomato and pineapple juice and played some pool, unaware of exactly how many drinks and shots she had. (Yeah, what a wuss, why even I went to that bar in the first place? I was sad for leaving the States and realized probably that's the last time I'd see a bar.)

So anyway, we'd come with her car and I had to drive back to B'ham, at one point I had to pull over for her to puke. Fun night.

It is not always their intention to drive by themselves. If the designated driver bails out on them and the bartender doesn't keep track of things, they are not in their right mind. I'd think in case of a deadly accident, the involuntary manslaughter is more fitting, since their brain has pretty much left the building at that point and murder one, two or voluntary manslaughter still needs some sort of clarity about what one is doing. But I do think something should be done so that they could not drive for a long long time, even if that's a longer prison sentence.