Sobering Up

As part of Impaired Driving Prevention Month, Sobering Up is taking a look back at the year’s Top 12 Newsmakers in the fight against alcohol-involved crime and Impaired Driving. This post is Part 9 of 12. The National Traffic Safety Board (NTSB) released its annual Most Wanted list of ways to improve transportation safety in 2013 [...]

Binge drinking spikes around the holidays. Check out this infographic from Everyday Health.

It has been estimated by the United Kingdom’s Home Office that “irresponsible” drinking costs taxpayers in the U.K. between £18-25  ($29-40) billion a year. Additionally, there were nearly 1 million alcohol-related violent crimes, and 1.2 million alcohol-related hospital admissions in the U.K. in 2011. In an effort to get a handle on the ever-increasing issue [...]

Last June, I had the opportunity to present to a group of researchers with the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. As CEO of an alcohol monitoring technology company, 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, [...]

In June, researchers from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio and Wake Forest University published a study, “Comparing the Detection of Transdermal and Breath Alcohol Concentrations During Periods of Alcohol Consumption Ranging From Moderate Drinking to Binge Drinking” in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, published by the American Psychological Association. Researchers were [...]

Last week the National Association of Drug Court Professionals announced the addition of former U.S. Marine Officer Kenneth Gardner to the Justice for Vets team. Gardner will work as part of the Veterans Treatment Court Planning Initiative (VTCPI) and the Veterans Mentor Court Project. Gardner, who deployed multiple times in his military career in support [...]

As a small business owner on the road for over half of every year traveling a two-state area, things happen along the way that confirm to me why we do what we do. I’d like to share with you a story. I was visiting a county and a city in the middle of nowhere the other day. It was [...]

According to officials in York County, Pennsylvania, in any given year, 125 drunk drivers are responsible for 600 DUI arrests. That statistic does a good job of illustrating what we know about the Hardcore Drunk Driver: That they’re dangerous, and that they are struggling with alcohol dependence and addiction. Both the York Daily Record and [...]

In a recent opinion piece in the Washington Post, “How AA Fails Young Addicts,” Chelsea Carmona, who attended her first AA meeting at the age of 20, addresses what she sees as systemic problems in treatment, and in particular the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) program, when it comes to addressing the needs of youth. First, I [...]

Anyone involved in law enforcement and corrections knows the angry side of offenders–especially offenders dealing with substance abuse issues. But it’s nice to be reminded of the positive outcomes from time to time.