@article{ref1,
title="Drink driving as the commonest drug driving-a perspective from Europe",
journal="International journal of environmental research and public health",
year="2020",
author="Allsop, Richard",
volume="17",
number="24",
pages="e9521-e9521",
abstract="People mixing driving motor vehicles with consuming alcohol increases deaths and  injuries on the roads, as was established irrefutably in the mid-1960s. This  commentary discusses how society across Europe has responded since then to this  burden by managing drink driving in the interests of road safety. The principal  response has been to set, communicate and enforce limits on the level of alcohol in  the blood above which it is illegal to drive and to deal in various ways with  drivers found to be exceeding the limits. Achieving reduction in drink-related road  deaths has benefitted public health, though the aim to change behaviour of drinking  drivers has been a challenge to the profession. Other achievements have included  changes in public attitude to drink driving, and reduction in reoffending by  convicted offenders through rehabilitation courses and use of the alcohol interlock,  which prevents starting of a vehicle by a driver who has drunk too much. There is  scope for improved recording of road deaths identified as drink-related, greater  understanding of effectiveness in enforcement of the legal limit and improved  availability of the alcohol interlock. Relevance of experience with drink driving to  management of other drug driving and prospects for building on the achievements so  far are discussed.  Keywords: Ethanol impaired driving <p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1661-7827",
doi="10.3390/ijerph17249521",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249521"
}