NCJ Number
131993
Journal
Alcohol, Drugs and Driving Volume: 7 Issue: 2 Dated: (April-June 1991) Pages: 93-104
Date Published
1991
Length
12 pages
Annotation
A secondary analysis of the debates among specialists at the November 1988 Paris meeting "High Alcohol Consumers and Traffic" was conducted to study methodologies in the context of international research presented at this symposium, to outline their field of analysis, and to extract and synthesize the main findings.
Abstract
The work presented at the symposium has been classified into descriptive and/or analytical studies that enable the relationship between driving and drinking to be quantified and understood and evaluative studies whose subject was the effectiveness of prevention and treatment programs. The analysis confirmed several findings: alcohol plays an important role in the incidence of offenses and accidents; the association between driving and drinking alcohol typically is a masculine phenomenon; driving under the influence of alcohol, or driving after excessive drinking, is linked either to heavy occasional drinking or to habitual drinking; and young drivers who drink alcohol and drive are differentiated from those who do not by their pattern of alcohol consumption, their lifestyle, and their general risk-taking. 4 tables and 18 references (Author abstract modified)