If you’ve ever wondered what you’d do if you were charged with drunk driving, you don’t have to wonder for long. Drunk driving laws for each and every state include a list of comprehensive penalties, and that list includes jail time, driver’s license suspensions, and for a growing number of states, ignition interlocks for all offenders.

But most people who are charged with drunk driving don’t receive just that one DUI charge; they get hit with a host of other charges that seem to go hand and hand with drunk driving. Take one woman in Great Falls, Montana for example. She was driving her minivan at 2:30 am in the morning when she ran a stop sign, broke someone’s window, and then hid on the upper level of a parking lot when she knew police were following close behind.

When police questioned her she said she admitted to drinking a lot of alcohol and her breathalyzer reading was 0.197. Police also noted that her son was lying in the back of the vehicle, she had a suspended driver’s license, and she was driving a van with no insurance.

Along with her drunk driving charge, she received several other charges including felony criminal child endangerment, criminal mischief, aggravated driving under the influence, driving with no insurance, and driving with a suspended license.

Not everyone is going to receive that many charges in addition to being charged with drunk driving, but when you’re drunk it might make perfectly good sense to drive on suspended driver’s licenses, drive with no insurance, or take your kids along. It all added up for this driver, and the same thing could happen to anyone.

No one wants to end up in these situations, but thanks to the mix of alcohol and driving, it’s all too easy to leave your driveway with no criminal history and return after you’ve been sitting in jail for a few days and have a felony charge pending. Think before you drink, and if you need to drive, find someone sober to get you where you need to go.

If you sat down and took a look at the history of how people have driven under the influence over the past 50 or so years, you’d see a drastic change in driver behavior and an even bigger change in what substances those people have taken before they get behind the wheel.

Gone are the days when hard liquor was the drink of choice: now you’ll find drunk drivers fueled by a combination of alcohol, drugs, and in some cases, inhalants or aerosol propellants. You know alcohol affects your coordination and reflexes in such a way that drinking and driving is dangerous, but how do inhalants affect you while driving?

One man challenged a DUI conviction because he was in care and control of the vehicle after using inhalants, and after going all the way to the Montana Supreme Court and losing, he’s set a precedent for all drivers who think they can drive under the influence of aerosol propellants.

A motorist can and will be charged and convicted of driving under the influence in Montana if he or she is in care and control of a vehicle after inhaling aerosol propellants. The man challenging his conviction was charged with felony DUI after he crashed into a utility pole. This was his fourth DUI, and although his toxicology report indicated he was driving under the influence of an aerosol dust remover, he attempted to have the felony charge dropped by arguing that the word ‘drug’ doesn’t include inhalants.

But the state Supreme Court had a different opinion, and because the definition of drug means a substance that alters one’s consciousness, his use of inhalants can be the basis of a DUI charge.

Because a fourth DUI is a felony in Montana, the driver in this case could receive up to 5 years in jail, $10,000 in fines, a driver’s license suspension of a minimum of one year, and a required ignition interlock program when he receives his driver’s license back again.

This case could set a precedent for all drivers in the United States—if you drive under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or substances like inhalants, you can and will be charged with DUI.