{"id":1869,"date":"2012-10-24T14:47:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T20:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alcoholmonitoring.com\/blog\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2021-08-26T12:08:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T18:08:49","slug":"sober-days-a-game-changer-for-treatment-criminal-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scramsystems.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/sober-days-a-game-changer-for-treatment-criminal-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sober Days: A game changer for treatment, criminal&#160;justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last June, I had the opportunity to present to a group of researchers with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niaaa.nih.gov\">National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.<\/a> As CEO of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scramsystems.com\/\">alcohol monitoring technology company<\/a>, our focus was sharing data from 1,000 individuals that we had monitored for a year or more. Our technology provides 24\/7 testing, every 30 minutes, to measure for compliance with required sobriety. The data is extensive and comprehensive, and after 9 years and 255,000 monitored clients, there are a number of behavioral trends we\u2019re able to cull from that&#160;data.<\/p>\n<p>We thought we understood what was important to this group\u2014and to our customers. What we learned is that we were completely&#160;wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Our presentation focused on the fact that 50% of that group of 1,000 had no violations of any kind during the time they were monitored. The other 50% did, and on average, that group had 3.5 events or \u201cviolations,\u201d which can include drinking, a tamper, or both. Our focus was Compliance Rate, and we based it on&#160;violations.<\/p>\n<p>But one researcher in the room began doing some calculations, and what he told us changed the way we look at our billions of pieces of data. While we were focused on \u201cevents,\u201d the researcher began to look at the data from the perspective of the people\u2014the individual clients&#160;monitored.<\/p>\n<p>This population of 1,000 represented the highest level of alcohol dependence and addiction you can find. Individuals who are required to wear our product for a year or more are hardcore, repeat, alcohol-addicted individuals. If they didn\u2019t drink every single day prior to their time with us, they drank excessively, 5 to 7 days a week, for years and even&#160;decades.<\/p>\n<p>This researcher turned the tables, and suddenly, we had an entirely different view of our own world. He quickly calculated that 500 people with an average of 3.5 violations\u20141,750 \u201cevents\u201d\u2014was out of a total of 375,000 monitored days. In reality, when you looked at the data from the eyes of a single person on a single day, the compliance rate for this group was 99.5%, and the view, in their words, was&#160;\u201cunprecedented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On any given day, of all the individuals we monitor, on average 99.3% of them are completely compliant\u2014a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scramsystems.com\/monitoring\/scram-continuous-alcohol-monitoring\/\">Sober Day.<\/a> In our group of 1,000 \u201cworst of the worst,\u201d the Sober Day rate was 99.5%\u2014even&#160;higher.<\/p>\n<p>Even treatment doesn\u2019t achieve this level of sobriety, and that accounts for the fact that many drink during treatment and don\u2019t get caught. The question for groups like the NIAAA becomes how to get Sober Days to last beyond the period of monitoring. Early studies show that the longer they\u2019re monitored for sobriety (enforced sobriety), the better their chances of long-term success. 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