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Signs of Reason

By Lawrence Taylor

For years I’ve been preaching that the focus of the so-called "war on drunk driving" should be on the problem drinker — the alcoholic with prior convictions and/or very high blood-alcohol levels — rather than on the far more commonly arrested social drinker.  See my June, 2006, blog post "Time for a Change".  Dealing with the problem drinker is addressing the source of most alcohol-related traffic fatalities; punishing social drinkers is simply a prohibitionist war on alcohol. Finally, signs that the voices of reason are beginning to be heard over the hysterical screams of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.  In today’s Wall Street Journal:  Drunk Driver Data Don’t Walk Straight Line Either Rarely Do Intoxicated Motorists Get Caught, and When They Do, the Meaning of Blood-Alcohol Levels Is Hazy What makes a drunken driver really drunk? That question was highlighted by Mothers Against Drunk Driving’s decision Monday to remove a liquor-industry-funded group from a high-profile campaign to prevent drinkers from taking the wheel...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on June 10, 2009 (boomark / email).