ALCOHOL SAFETY-FINAL REPORT

INVESTIGATIONS WERE CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH DRINKING AND DRIVING PROBLEMS INVOLVE ALCOHOLICS AND OTHER ABNORMAL DRINKERS AND TO ATTEMPT TO ACCURATLEY CHARACTERIZE AND IDENTIFY DRINKING DRIVERS BEFORE THEY BECOME INVOLVED IN SERIOUS ACCIDENTS. THE CHARACTERIZATION OF DRINKING DRIVERS NECESSITATED THE GATHERING OF EMPIRICAL DATA. THREE POPULATIONS WERE SELECTED FOR THIS PURPOSE: (1) TRAFFIC FATALITIES, WHOSE ALCOHOL INVOLVEMENT WAS DETERMINED THROUGH A RETROSPECTIVE, CASE-HISTORY INVESTIGATION, (2) KNOWN ALCOHOLICS, WHOSE CRASH AND VIOLATION INVOLVEMENT WAS INITIALLY IDENTIFIED THROUGH A PROSPECTIVE, LONGITUDINAL STUDY AND (3) ARRESTED DRINKING DRIVERS, WHO WERE INVESTIGATED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THOSE CHARACTERISTICS COMMON TO THE OTHER GROUPS. SPECIFIC MEANS FOR IDENTIFYING ALCOHOLICS WERE UNDERTAKEN BY USE OF THE MICHIGAN ALCOHOLIC SCREENING TEST (MAST) ANALYSIS, AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST DEVELOPMENT FOR ALCHOLIC DRIVERS. THE MAST WAS DEVELOPED WITH A BRIEF QUESTIONNAIRE THAT CAN BE USED IN A STRUCTURED INTERVIEW TO IDENTIFY PERSONS WITH POSSIBLE DRINKING PROBLEMS. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST DEVELOPMENT FOR ALCOHOLIC DRIVERS WAS THE COMPILATION OF 500 TEST QUESTIONS FROM AN EXTENSIVE SEARCH OF OTHER QUESTIONNAIRES THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY FOUND USEFUL IN SELECTING ALCOHOLICS FROM A GENERAL POPULATION. /AUTHOR/

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  Ann Arbor, MI  United States  48109

  Highway Safety Research Institute

  Huron Parkway and Baxter Road
  Ann Arbor, MI  United States  48109
• Publication Date: 1969

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Clearinghouse Fed Sci & Tech Info
  • Publisher: National Association of Housing & Redeve

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcoholism; Detection and identification; Detectors; Drunk drivers; Drunk driving; Questionnaires; Traffic crashes; Traffic safety
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223020
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 2 Vols
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 12 1970 12:00AM