title: Addiction, drinking behavior, and driving under the influence.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Frank A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Sloan
authors.forename: Lindsey M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Eldred
authors.forename: Dontrell V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Davis
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000328:Adult; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000453:epidemiology*; D057229:Alcoholics / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D035846:Law Enforcement; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016017:Odds Ratio; D057566:Self Report; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014505:Urban Population