Drunk & Impaired Driving
Blog articles on Sobering Up that address the drunk and impaired driving problems facing communities and courts across the United States.
Top 12 of 2012: High Court Hears Challenge to No Refusal Laws
As part of Impaired Driving Prevention Month, Sobering Up is taking a look back at the year’s Top...
NTSB’s Newest Recommendations Overlook Alcohol-Dependent Drivers
On Tuesday the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a special investigation report on fatal wrong-way driving crashes...
Top 12 of 2012: North Carolina’s Laura’s Law Represents Paradigm Shift in State DUI Laws
In July of 2010, Laura Fortenbury, a 17-year-old Gaston County, North Carolina, teenager was killed in a head-on...
Top 12 of 2012: CDC Report on Binge Drinking, Relationship to Impaired Driving
As part of Impaired Driving Prevention Month, Sobering Up is taking a look back at the year’s Top...
A Year in Review: 2012’s Top 12 Newsmakers for Impaired Driving Prevention
In December of 1982, President Ronald Reagan signed a proclamation establishing “National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week”...
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...
Church vs. Jail for Underage Drunk Driver in Fatal Accident?
Oklahoma District Court Judge Mike Norman is using an unusual form of punishment for a convicted DUI offender...
Sober Days for the Holidays: Drinking Violations Jump 54% This Thursday
It may surprise many that over the last several years, Thanksgiving weekend has become one of the biggest...
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...