{"id":1949,"date":"2012-11-15T15:07:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T22:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alcoholmonitoring.com\/blog\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2020-07-09T08:40:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T14:40:05","slug":"new-report-rand-attributes-drops-in-dui-domestic-violence-in-south-dakota-to-247-sobriety-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scramsystems.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/new-report-rand-attributes-drops-in-dui-domestic-violence-in-south-dakota-to-247-sobriety-project\/","title":{"rendered":"RAND Attributes Drops in DUI, Domestic Violence in South Dakota to 24\/7 Sobriety Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today The American Journal of Public Health <\/em>published an article<\/a> on a three-year study done by the RAND Corporation <\/a>that looked at the impact of  South Dakota\u2019s 24\/7 Sobriety Project<\/a> on alcohol-related crime.<\/p>\n

The study was conducted by the RAND Corporation’s Drug Policy Research Center<\/a>. According to Dr. Beau Kilmer, a senior policy researcher at RAND and the lead researcher, the study showed that the program had a positive impact on problem drinking and public health outcomes.<\/p>\n

The study, which had support from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism<\/a>, found that the program has helped reduce repeat drunk driving offenses by 12%, domestic violence offenses by 9%, and the number of traffic crashes for males between the ages of 18 and 40 by 4%. Evidence suggests that this program is re-engineering the way the criminal justice system manages alcohol offenders.<\/p>\n

The 24\/7 Project, introduced by former South Dakota Attorney General Larry Long in 2006, has been replicated in a number of other states, including North Dakota and Montana. In 2012 the 24\/7 Sobriety Project model was incorporated into a new Federal Impaired Driving Countermeasure, MAP-21<\/a>, which provides states with Federal funding for programs deemed to have the most potential to impact impaired driving.<\/p>\n

The 24\/7 Sobriety Project model requires participants to abstain from consuming or possessing alcohol and mandates frequent testing to enforce it. Specifically, participants are ordered by the court to supervised twice-a-day breath testing at a local law enforcement location or to be monitored by continuous, transdermal alcohol monitoring<\/a> using SCRAMx monitoring bracelets.<\/a>  The program also requires participants to be tested for the presence of drugs.<\/p>\n