Effectiveness of Education and Treatment Programs for Drinking Drivers: A Decade of Evaluation (From Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, P 1298-1328, 1981, Leonard Goldberg, ed. -- See NCJ-110793)

• NCJ Number: 110798
• Author(s): J L Nichols; V S Ellingstad; R E Reis
• Date Published: 1981
• Length: 31 pages
• Sale Source: Almqvist and Wiksell International
• Publication Type: Program/Project Description
• Language: English
• Country: Sweden
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Annotation

This paper assesses the various types of information collected and analyzed between 1970 and 1980 to assess the effectiveness of the Alcohol Safety Action Project (ASAP) drinking-driver education and treatment programs.

Abstract

Studies included simple post-hoc comparisons across ASAP sites, 2 experimentally controlled studies, ASAP project-level evaluations, a quasi-experimental survival rate analysis, an 11-city experimental study, and a single-city large-scale experimental study. Early studies during the project suggested that some ASAP treatment modalities may have had a positive effect on recidivism. Large-scale quasi-experimental studies appeared to support positive treatment effects for social but not problem drinkers. The 11-city study found little or no effectiveness for either education or treatment programs. Preliminary results from a large-scale experimental study of first offenders found no significant differences in recidivism between social and problem drinkers as a result of education programs. Overall, results suggest that such programs have little effect in modifying the subsequent behavior of those exposed to them. 7 references, 4 tables, and 12 figures.