Drunk & Impaired Driving
Blog articles on Sobering Up that address the drunk and impaired driving problems facing communities and courts across the United States.
Dr. Beau Kilmer Talks About Why 24/7 Programs Reduce Recidivism
Dr. Beau Kilmer, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation's Drug Policy Research Center, talks about a peer-reviewed...
RAND Attributes Drops in DUI, Domestic Violence in South Dakota to 24/7 Sobriety Project
Today The American Journal of Public Health published an article on a three-year study done by the RAND Corporation...
NTSB’s 2013 Most Wanted List Includes Call for Technologies to Address Impaired Driving
Today the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the independent federal agency charged by Congress with investigating all transportation...
Are Veterans Treatment Courts “Preferential?”
A recent Bloomberg news article took an in-depth look at the different experiences two combat veterans had with...
NHTSA Reports Traffic Deaths Up for First Half of 2012
According to a recently released report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), traffic fatalities in the...
Halloween Drinking Data May Scare You Sober, or at Least Keep You Home
Halloween is no longer a just-for-kids holiday. According to the National Retail Federation, over 170 million people in...
New White Paper Presents Strategies for Courts When Dealing With Alcohol
Today AMS has published a new White Paper, The 5 Obstacles to Alcohol Monitoring, which looks at some...
Happy Birthday! Montana’s 24/7 Sobriety Program Turns 1
Drinking and driving has been a chronic—and deadly—problem on Montana’s roadways for decades. In 2008, Forbes magazine reported...
U.S. Supreme Court to Review No Refusal Laws, DUI Blood Tests
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Missouri case that challenges that state’s no refusal law,...
29 Million in U.S. Admit Driving Drunk in 2011
On Monday the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released results from the 2011 National Survey...