Follow-Up Evaluation of North Carolina's Alcohol and Drug Education Traffic Schools and Mandatory Substance Abuse Assessments

摘要

With the 1979 passage of Senate Bill 691, North Carolina adopted a statewide program of Alcohol and Drug Education Traffic Schools (ADETS) intended for first time convictees of Driving Under the Influence (DUI) and Careless and Reckless Driving after Drinking. The program went into effect January 1, 1980. An important component of the statewide program was an ongoing evaluation of the effectiveness of ADETS. Two earlier evaluations (PB91-218511, PB91-21529) conducted by the Highway Safety Research Center (HSRC) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill indicated that those persons attending ADETS fared worse in terms of DWI recidivism than their counterparts who were not assigned to attend ADETS. The scope of the current evaluation activity included three specific tasks: (1) To study the recidivism patterns of post Safe Roads Act ADETS graduates; (2) To conduct an eligibility and referral analysis of ADETS attendance on a county by county basis; and (3) To identify those persons eligible for mandatory substance abuse assessment and categorize those who were actually assigned on a county by county basis. Also in the third task, assessment data maintained by the Department of Human Resources (DHR) was compared and matched with driver history files maintained by the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to determine the feasibility of combining these two sources of data to provide an enhanced data set.