Tag: recidivism
Moving the Needle: Reducing Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities by Focusing on Repeat DWI Offenders
In May the National Transportation Safety Board released 19 recommendations to eliminate impaired driving. This post is the...
New Website Gives DWI Victims the Chance to Share Their Story—Will it Make a Difference?
Jacqui Saburido is one of the most well-known drunk driving victims in the country. In September of 1999,...
Top 12 of 2012: NTSB Focuses on Impaired Driving in Annual Most Wanted List
As part of Impaired Driving Prevention Month, Sobering Up is taking a look back at the year’s Top...
Slipping Through the Cracks: Fox News Op/Ed Hits on Mental Health, Crime
Earlier today, Fox News Medical Team member Dr. Keith Ablow published an op/ed piece on Foxnews.com addressing the issue...
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...
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...
The Costs of Drunk Driving: How to Save $37 Billion a Year
Take a look at this infographic from www.carinsurance.org on the costs of drunk driving.
Making a Difference: York, PA Closing the Supervision Gap for Repeat Drunk Drivers
According to officials in York County, Pennsylvania, in any given year, 125 drunk drivers are responsible for 600...
Law Enforcement Making a Difference: Ten Years Later, a Drunk Driver Thanks His Arresting Officer
Anyone involved in law enforcement and corrections knows the angry side of offenders–especially offenders dealing with substance abuse...
Making a Difference: Small Town Maine Walks to End Domestic Violence
We Walk Like MADD, we Race for a Cure, and we also walk for electronic monitoring. At least that’s...