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Addiction, drinking behavior, and driving under the influence.

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Sloan, FA; Eldred, LM; Davis, DV
Published in: Substance use & misuse
May 2014

Using a survey of drinkers (N = 1,634), we evaluated alternative explanations of heavy and binge drinking, driving under the influence (DUI), DUI arrests, speeding citations, and chargeable accidents. Explanations included socializing, short-term decision-making, unrealistic optimism, risk preferring behavior, and addiction. Most consistent relationships were between substance use and alcohol addiction and dependent variables for (1) binge drinking and (2) DUI episodes. Respondent characteristics (age, marital and employment status, race, etc.) had important roles for DUI arrests. Drinker-drivers and those arrested for DUI are partially overlapping groups with implications for treatment and policies detecting and incapacitating persons from drinking and driving.

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Substance use & misuse

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EISSN

1532-2491

ISSN

1082-6084

Publication Date

May 2014

Volume

49

Issue

6

Start / End Page

661 / 676

Related Subject Headings

  • Urban Population
  • United States
  • Substance Abuse
  • Self Report
  • Odds Ratio
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Logistic Models
  • Law Enforcement
  • Humans
 

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Sloan, F. A., Eldred, L. M., & Davis, D. V. (2014). Addiction, drinking behavior, and driving under the influence. Substance Use & Misuse, 49(6), 661–676. https://doi.org/10.3109/10826084.2013.858167
Sloan, Frank A., Lindsey M. Eldred, and Dontrell V. Davis. “Addiction, drinking behavior, and driving under the influence.Substance Use & Misuse 49, no. 6 (May 2014): 661–76. https://doi.org/10.3109/10826084.2013.858167.
Sloan FA, Eldred LM, Davis DV. Addiction, drinking behavior, and driving under the influence. Substance use & misuse. 2014 May;49(6):661–76.
Sloan, Frank A., et al. “Addiction, drinking behavior, and driving under the influence.Substance Use & Misuse, vol. 49, no. 6, May 2014, pp. 661–76. Epmc, doi:10.3109/10826084.2013.858167.
Sloan FA, Eldred LM, Davis DV. Addiction, drinking behavior, and driving under the influence. Substance use & misuse. 2014 May;49(6):661–676.

Published In

Substance use & misuse

DOI

EISSN

1532-2491

ISSN

1082-6084

Publication Date

May 2014

Volume

49

Issue

6

Start / End Page

661 / 676

Related Subject Headings

  • Urban Population
  • United States
  • Substance Abuse
  • Self Report
  • Odds Ratio
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Logistic Models
  • Law Enforcement
  • Humans