title: Personality characteristics and drinking patterns of high-risk drivers never apprehended for driving while intoxicated.
abstract: In a study of 124 high-risk drivers, almost 50% of the drives had a severe problem with alcohol and were driving without a valid license. The findings indicate that high-risk drivers, not identified as drinking drivers, are as potentially a threat to public health as those individuals arrested for driving while intoxicated. It is recommended that intervention programs for high-risk drivers cannot ignore alcohol education and, where appropriate, alcohol treatment as an identifiable programmatic strategy.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000523:psychology*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D001334:Automobile Driving; D006801:Humans; D010556:Personality Tests; D012306:Risk; D012917:Social Adjustment; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology