NCJ Number
74827
Date Published
1979
Length
154 pages
Annotation
The rehailitation efforts of the Idaho Alcohol Safety Action Project (ASAP) are evaluated in the sixth study of the program.
Abstract
Data for the evaluation were collected from court referral records, court alcohol school attendance forms, and driver improvement counseling actions. The rehabilitation system consists of the court alcohol school, the driver improvement counseling program, the combined alcohol referral and education services center, the substance abuse services, and the defensive driving course. DWI offenders may be classified by presentence investigators as problem drinkers, nonproblem drinkers, and undefined. Court decisions are in part based upon such recommendations of the investigators. Analysis of the effectiveness of the various treatment measures revealed no significant differences in the no-treatment modality when measured against any treatment modality and also no significant differences in the composite treatment modality when measured against any single treatment modality. The court alcohol school was the modality that had a significantly lower number of problem drinkers. This was disturbing, because the recidivism rates for court alcohol school were thus expected to be significantly lower, but they were not. The driver improvement counseling program, on the other hand, had a significantly higher number of problem drinkers with no significant difference in the recidivism rate. Extensive charts, tables, and the raw data used in the report are presented in 44 exhibits.