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2013 BJA Grants Available for Drug Courts
The U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is showing its continued support for drug courts by announcing the solicitation for grant applications for drug courts for 2013....
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Top 12 of 2012: 1st Time Interlock Laws Reducing Recidivism, Changing Behavior
In March of this year, a study conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety took a look at the long-term behavioral impact of 1st time DUI offender interlock laws. Specifically, the study...
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Top 12 of 2012: NHTSA Continues Transdermal Alcohol Monitoring Research
In October the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a study on Transdermal Alcohol Monitoring. The report, which took an in-depth look at six jurisdictions in the U.S. using...
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Top Newsmakers of 2012: NTSB Focuses on Impaired Driving in Annual Most...
As part of Impaired Driving Prevention Month, Sobering Up is taking a look back at the year’s Top 12 Newsmakers in the fight against alcohol-involved crime and Impaired Driving. This post is Part 9 of...
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Top Newsmakers of 2012: RAND Substantiates Impact of 24/7 Sobriety Programs...
One of the most noteworthy newsmakers this year in the fight against Impaired Driving came out of South Dakota, when the RAND Corporation published the first peer-reviewed, longitudinal study of the...
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Top Impaired Driving Story of 2012: 27 States See Drop in Alcohol-Related...
Just in time to wrap up a year full of good news in the fight against Impaired Driving, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has released the 2011 numbers for alcohol-impaired...
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NCSC to Conduct the First Census of the Nation’s Problem-Solving Courts
The National Center for State Courts is in preparations to begin the first-ever NCSC Problem-Solving Court Census, a database of contact information for all justice-system programs that focus on the...
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Huffington Post Talks Lindsay Lohan, Drug Courts
Today the Huffington Post posted an article from West Huddleston, CEO of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals. Huddleston uses the widely publicized case of actress Lindsay Lohan as a...
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Does Four Loko Promote Binge Drinking? FTC Orders Maker to Clean Up Alcohol...
Phusion Projects, LLC, the makers of the malt beverage drink Four Loko, has been ordered by the FTC to change their labeling to better reflect the true alcohol content in the drink’s fruity flavored,...
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Colorado’s Efforts to Crack Down on Drunk Driving Come With a Hefty Price...
The discussion about impaired driving in Colorado has recently focused on the issue of drugged driving with the passage of Amendment 64, which legalized marijuana in the state of Colorado in 2012....
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$147,000 Fine for Drunk Driving? Outrageous, or a Good Idea?
Danish soccer player Niklas Bendtner is paying a heavy price for drunk driving without a valid license this past Sunday in downtown Copenhagen. On Tuesday, Bendtner was been fined the equivalent of...
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St. Patrick’s Day Pub Trivia. Your Topic: Drunk Driving
On St. Patrick’s Day, over 122 million Americans will observe the Catholic Saint’s Feast Day by wearing the green or making a traditional Irish meal. Celebrations will often include hoisting a pint of...
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All Rise America! Cross Country Tour Will Kick Off National Drug Court Month
On April 29th, the second annual All Rise America! Relay for Recovery will commence in Santa Maria, California, kicking off a month-long, cross country tour that will highlight National Drug Court...
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Celebrating Cinco de Mayo This Weekend?
Cinco de Mayo has entered the mainstream as a holiday, celebrated with good food and many times, an icy adult beverage. With the holiday falling on a Sunday this year, the potential for more people...
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Supreme Court Ruling on Warrantless DUI Blood Testing Will Burden Court System
Last month the United States Supreme Court in Missouri v. McNeely ruled to uphold a Missouri Supreme Court ruling in which the defendant, charged with DUI, moved to suppress results from a blood test...
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North Dakota Governor Signs Tough DUI Bill That Prohibits Drinking for Repeat...
On April 29th North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple signed a new piece of DUI legislation that officials say with substantially strengthen North Dakota’s drunk driving laws. House Bill 1302, which goes...
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25th Anniversary of Deadliest DUI Wreck: How far have we come?
On May 14, 1988, near Carrollton, Kentucky, a school bus filled with children and their adult chaperons was returning from a church outing. Larry Mahoney, driving drunk and the wrong way, slammed in to...
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NTSB Calls for Lowering 0.08 BAC to 0.05: Can it happen?
On the 25th anniversary of our nation’s deadliest alcohol-impaired driving crash, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a new set of alcohol-impaired driving recommendations. The...
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Alert: NADCP Asks for Support as Congress Weighs Drug, Veterans Court Funding
The National Association of Drug Court Professionals has issued an Action Needed Alert to supporters of drug and veterans treatment courts. According to an alert distributed today, within the next few...
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NTSB .05 BAC Recommendation Stirs Controversy in DUI Community
In the weeks since the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) submitted a recommendation to lower the legal BAC limit for drivers from 0.08 to 0.05 BAC, commentary from politicians, lobbying...
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