10/6/2006 - Drugged and driving
24 Hours Vancouver - Canada
...  "It's a relatively new field, but there are experts who have been trained in identifying the physical symptoms drivers may display," such as red eyes, an elevated heart rate, enlarged pupils and lack of co-ordination.
The test is called the 12-step Drug Recognition Expert evaluation, and the expert's opinion in the field can lead to an impaired driving by drug charge, said Vinet. ...

9/21/2006 - Study Finds Repeat DUI Offenders Have High Mental Illness Rates
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... More than half of DUI offenders also suffer from at least one mental illness in addition to a drug or alcohol-use disorder. The ...

9/14/2006 - The Arrest Process – Through the Eyes of a “Lawbreaker”
The Chronicle - Monroe,CT,USA
... The State General Statutes for arrest procedures are available online under section 14-227b on the Department of Motor Vehicles Web site at www.ct.gov/dmv. ...

9/10/2006 - Protecting your green card
Philippine News Online - Philippines
... Green card holders do not have the same rights as U.S. citizens in criminal legal matters and freedom of residency. In matters involving the law, any felony and some misdemeanor convictions can result in the loss of a green card. Driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs (DUI) could result in removal proceedings in an immigration court (especially if a child is in the vehicle or an injury occurs). Multiple drunk driving arrests, without injuries involved, can also result in removal proceedings by the DHS. Presenting a false identification to a police officer or other public official can also initiate an attempt by the government to take away someone’s green card. ...

9/10/2006 - 'Drunkenness' Changing, Study Finds
AScribe (press release) - USA
... Scientists attribute this declining trend to several factors. First, more stringent driving limits for Blood Alcohol Concentration and increased penalties for drunk driving accounted for about 16 percent of the change from 1997 to 2000, according to the report. "This shows that driving policies can have effects beyond simple deterrence," said Kerr. Higher educational attainment levels also have affected people's perceptions of drunkenness, according to the study's authors, who write that "Having less education, particularly not graduating high school, is seen to be associated with reporting more drinks to feel drunk." ...

8/14/2006 - A Look Behind the Wheel of a Drunk Driver
MSNBC - US
Video clip from Today Show - Use Explorer 6.0 or above.

6/29/2006 - Driving + Cell Phones = Big Road Risk
WebMD - USA
... SOURCES: Strayer, D. Human Factors, Summer 2006; vol 48: pp 381-391. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: "DUI/DWI Laws." News release, University of Utah.

6/27/2006 - Driving & Medication Becoming A Dangerous Combo
WCBS-TV New York - NY,USA
... While there are no official statistics, it's estimated that drowsiness caused by allergy ... under the influence of medication, you are held to the same DUI laws.

3/28/2006 - 'Shania Twain' defence works in drunk driver's favour
CBC, Tue, 28 Mar 2006 6:36 AM PST
One of the most notorious drunk drivers in the Ottawa area has been found not criminally responsible on his latest impaired driving charges because of a mental disorder that makes him believe female celebrities are controlling his actions.

1/15/2006 - BLOOD alcohol content calculations
Health24.com - Cape Town,South Africa
When you drink, your blood alcohol levels are not skyhigh within minutes. When alcohol is consumed and the blood alcohol concentration ...

1/8/2006 - SFST - Standardized Field Sobriety Tests - Junk or Not?
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... slew of DUI defense attorneys have been assiduously picking apart Burns' research on the standardized field sobriety tests for years. Spurgeon Cole, a Georgia ...

12/25/2005 - SITES and Sound Advice For Your Eve
Washington Post - United States
... In case you're thinking of trying your luck at avoiding the law, consider that a DUI these days will cost you at least $7,800. FriendsDriveSober ...

12/6/2005 - THE Claim: Never Drink on an Empty Stomach
New York Times - United States
... But the subjects also reached significantly lower blood-alcohol levels over all - on average about 70 percent of what they were on the day they skipped ...

12/4/2005 - HOW much booze OK? Debate of .05 or .08 blood-alcohol level
Edmonton Sun - Canada
Raynald Marchand, the Canada Safety Council's manager of traffic safety, says criminalizing motorists with a blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) of .05 is the ...

12/3/2005 - Sucking on a penny or a breath mint will help someone who has been drinking defeat a breathalyzer test.
    from Snopes.com
... For this reason, we adore the honest side adore the notion of little easy-to-do tricks that will keep us, the occasional overindulgers, from being rounded up and tossed into the hoosegow as if we were actual miscreants who make our roads dangerous. ...

11/30/2005 - THEY'RE hopping MADD over pocket breathalyzers Mississauga News Mississauga,Ontario,Canada
... But, police and MADD say the devices are often inaccurate and they encourage people to drink and drive. "Using the pocket breathalyzer is like playing Russian ...

11/23/2005 - Drinking & Driving Can Create Holiday Tragedies; 21st Century Insurance Urges Safe Driving with Seasonal Campaign
Common Alcohol Consumption Myths -- and Facts that Could Save Lives:

Myth: As long as party-goers stick to beer and wine, instead of hard liquor, the intoxicating effects are minimized.
FACT: One 12 oz. can of beer, 5 oz. glass of wine or 12 oz. wine cooler contains the same amount of alcohol as one 1/2 oz. of hard liquor.
Myth: Someone who has had too much to drink will show visible signs of intoxication.
FACT: Physical appearance can be misleading. Just one drink can impair one's ability to drive safely, because alcohol consumption affects judgment and motor skills first.
Myth: Drinking coffee sobers up someone who has had too much to drink.
FACT: Time is the only solution to intoxication. It takes approximately one hour to oxidize each drink consumed.

11/19/2005 - UNTRAINED, unskilled, uncorrected drivers to blame for most traffic crashes
Kingsport Times News - Kingsport,TN,USA
First in a series Jerry Paregien is a retired California Highway Patrol
Sgt. who now lives in Kingsport. The days are gone when ...
**editor's note - the common DUI DWI is not mentioned once in this article.

11/5/2005 - CRITICIZING 'zero tolerance' for DUIs is nonsense
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
... breath, her speech, any redness of her eyes, her ability to perform standard field sobriety tests and the result of the preliminary breath test taken at the ...

11/4/2005 - LEGALIZE DRUNK DRIVING
Free Market News Network - Pompano Beach,FL,USA
... ransom note. Now the feds declare that a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 percent and above is criminal and must be severely punished. The ...

10/19/2005 - STORM in a wine glass
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa
Washington's power-broking elite is shaken and stirred, and revolt is brewing over the Dom Perignon and canapés at the latest threat to the United States capital's everyday life.

10/18/2005 - THE Sobrietor Can Tell if You're Sober When You Call
RealTechNews - San Francisco,CA,USA
... The Sobrietor breath test measures the client's Breath Alcohol Content (BrAC), which is directly proportional to the client's blood alcohol content.

10/18/2005 - POPPY seed defense works on DUI charge
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Metra rail engineer attempts suicide (October 17, 2005) -- The Chicago-area train engineer at the controls when a commuter train derailed Sept. ...

10/7/2005 - STOCKARD Channing pleads no contest to DUI
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
By United Press International. Emmy Award-winner Stockard Channing has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor driving under the influence in Los Angeles. ...

10/6/2005 - MADD wants lower blood alcohol limit
Fort Frances Times - Fort Frances,Ontario,Canada
The current federal limit of 0.08 percent blood alcohol concentration is too high, say MADD officials, who would like to see that limit lowered to 0.05 percent ...

10/5/2005 - SLEEP experts equate operating while drowsy to driving drunk
Hanover Mariner - Marshfield,MA,USA
... A teary-eyed Huhler asked state lawmakers to support legislation (S2124) that would make driving while drowsy a criminal offense similar to drunk driving. ...

9/28/2005 - BIGGER activist role by MADD worries some
USA Today - USA
As it celebrates its 25th anniversary today, Mothers Against Drunk Driving will announce plans to step up its fight against impaired driving by putting more ...

9/28/2005 - CRASH woman drank kava before driving
Hobart Mercury - Hobart,Tasmania,Australia
A WOMAN who caused a multi-car pile-up that seriously injured three people had a blood alcohol reading of .221 -- more than four times the legal limit -- a court heard yesterday.

9/27/2005 - BOSS fires man who turned in sheriff
WNYT - Albany,NY,USA
The man who blew the whistle on Green County Sheriff Richard Hussey that led to DWI charges has been fired from his job.

9/27/3005 - SHERIFF arrested for DWI
Capital News 9 - Albany,NY,USA
According to court papers obtained by Capital News 9, in the DWI arrest of Greene County Sheriff Richard Hussey, two local men observed the sheriff drinking ...

9/23/2005 - RAVALLI County judge sentenced for violating DUI court order
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
HAMILTON -- A Ravalli County district judge who violated an order that he avoid alcohol must equip his car with a device designed to prevent people from driving after drinking.

9/17/2005 - CALIFORNIA man wants DUI expunged, citing language barrier
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
Medina - A Serbian-speaking man from California says he does not speak fluent English - so he wants evidence of his drunken driving arrest thrown out of court.

9/11/2005 - Is there a difference between beer and hard liquor? You bet your brewsky!
Beer and hard liquor are not the same, despite what the liquor lobby may be telling you. For example, a Long Island Iced Tea can contain as much alcohol as five to six beers.  While some groups will try to tell you otherwise, Americans are not easily fooled by the “a drink is a drink” theory. A recently conducted poll found that more than half of adult beverage consumers recognize that a drink is not a drink because liquor is more potent and can be consumed more quickly. For more information, please visit NBWA's newly launched Web page “The Difference Between Beer and Hard Liquor.”

9/9/2005 - NEW DUI machine has same old flaw
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
... In May, Assistant State Attorney Gino Feliciani said DUI conviction rates in Seminole dropped to roughly 50 percent without a breath test.

9/2/2005 - Sweden wants DUI devices on all cars
Sydney Morning Herald
The Swedish government wants all of the country's new cars to be equipped with devices that check sobriety by 2012 to prevent drunken driving.

9/1/2005 - Thai drunk driver's death penalty
A foundation campaigning against drunken driving said Thursday that a landmark decision handing down a death sentence to an intoxicated driver who killed four people would help reduce the carnage on Thailand's roads.

8/31/2005 - DRUNK Driving:What DUI Do When I Get Pulled Over?
Scene Magazine - Fort Collins,CO,USA
... In Colorado, the legal drinking limit is .05 BAC, not the .08 many
people believe it to be.Blowing a .05-.079 will classify you as DWAI (driving while ability ...

8/28/2005 - DRIVING under the influence of prescribed drugs
Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth,NH,USA
. . . Both officers cautioned that impaired driving is not when someone gets behind the wheel after taking their prescribed dosage of medicine. . . .

8/27/2005 - If you're drunk, forget the car Device will stop drunken drivers
Jersey City Reporter - Jersey City,NJ,USA
. . . drivers. For one thing interlock devices react to much lower levels of blood alcohol levels than the legal limit of .8 percent. . . .

8/22/2205 - There are ways to avoid being a DUI statistic.
Grand Junction Sentinel - Grand Junction,CO,USA
... Administration. There are ways to avoid being a DUI statistic. Don't drink, designate a sober driver or find another way home. ... ago. Nebraska Sen. ...

8/22/2005 - DUI charge altered a lifestyle
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
. . . I was handcuffed, put in a squad car and taken to jail. After failing a Breathalyzer, I was charged with driving under the influence. . . .

8/16/2005 - WHAT'S the difference between 0.08 and 0.10?
St. Cloud Times - St. Cloud,MN,USA
. . . After the three drinks, I took a Breathalyzer test and had a .076. I thought I would have a higher number because I felt intoxicated. ...



8/5/2005 - JUDGE awards couple $2.2 million in DUI case
Atlanta Journal Constitution  - GA,USA
... The damages may be the largest ever awarded in a Clayton DUI lawsuit. A search of Clayton State Court civil suits going back to ...

8/4/2005 - 170 DUI cases thrown out over testing challenge
Miami Herold (AP) -- Prosecutors have dropped drunken-driving charges against 170 people whose arrests were based on breath-test readings. Assistant State Attorney Elizabeth Parker reviewed 1,100 DUI arrests made between August 2004 and May after defense attorneys successfully challenged procedures used at the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office breath-testing facility, where multiple technicians performed

7/29/2005 - BREATH TEST REFUSALS INDICATE TIME FOR CHANGE, OFFICIALS SAY
Westerly Sun - Westerly,RI,USA
... Local police chiefs say 85 percent is an accurate representation of how many people generally refuse to have a breath test taken in the local community. ...

7/29/2005 - ELDERLY teetotaller bust for 'drunk driving'
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa
... has never had alcohol in his life had a nightmare experience when two police officers from Kwaggasfontein north of Pretoria arrested him for driving under the

7/26/2005 - DWI charge, and firing, for Bayonne cabbie
The Jersey Journal - Jersey City,NJ,USA
Reached by phone at his home yesterday and asked whether he was drinking while he was on duty, Overholser replied: "Well, if I was arrested for DWI, then ...

07/13/2005 (CNN.com) - Insurance tips for young drivers, 5 Tips: How to reduce the cost of car insurance on a young driver
     Having DWI convictions on a driving record is extremely costly. The Municipal Alliance for the Prevention of Substance Abuse estimates that the total cost of one DWI for an underage drinker, in New Jersey for example, is almost $24,000. This includes insurance premium increases, legal fees and other fines.
     If you are a young person with no prior convictions who is convicted of a DWI, your base insurance premium of $800 could be raised thousands of dollars for at least three years, according to David Snyder of the American Insurance Association.

7/13/2005 - HIGHWAY Bill Amendment Could Put Restrictions On States
WFMY News 2 - Greensboro,NC,USA
... A study by the California DMV says, "second DUI offenders installing an IID had a 130% higher risk of a subsequent crash than suspended drivers." The study ...

7/13/2005 - IGNITION Interlock Industry to Enjoy $300 Million From ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... A recent California Department of Motor Vehicles study on the devices found that, "second DUI offenders installing an IID had a 130% higher risk of a ...

7/13/2005 - FORMER Warren County DA Charged with DWI
Empire Journal - Chestertown,NY,USA
... Hendley refused to lodge a charge of vehicular homicide or other charges against Smith, instead prosecuting him only on a DWI charge. ...

7/13/2005 - County OKs Sunday sales of hard liquor
SANDPOINT ID - Start polishing your favorite shot glass and brandy snifter -- buying hard liquor on Sundays in Bonner County will soon be possible.
     ... "It's a fairness-across-the-board issue," said Commissioner Joe Young. "I know it's an emotional issue, and though I'm personally against it, facts show that most DUI offenses have been from beer and wine and not alcohol. There's a big financial gain to the county, and I don't see any negativity by allowing Sunday liquor sales."

7/12/2005 - MANY cited or arrested at Oregon checkpoint
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
Two people were arrested for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated as a result of a sobriety checkpoint from 9 pm Friday to 2:30 am Saturday in Oregon. ...

7/11/2005 - OFF-DUTY Moline Policeman Arrested for Drunk Driving
WQAD - Moline,IL,USA
... months. 32 year old Timothy Saathoff was arrested for OWI around 3 in the morning on Interstate 80 near Bettendorf on June 30. The ...

7/11/2005 - MOLINE officer charged with drunk driving
Quad-Cities Online - Rock Island,IL,USA
... A Bettendorf Police officer initially handled the OWI investigation, but it was turned over to Scott County when the officer realized the stop was outside ...

7/11/2005 - EX-SHERIFF'S captain reports for DUI sentence
Hamilton Journal News - Hamilton,OH,USA
... A 23-year veteran of the sheriff's office, Blankenship resigned the day he was arrested. It was his second DUI arrest in the past two years. ...

7/9/2005 - Man Flees From DUI Checkpoint, Injures Officer, Arrested After Brief Pursuit
     WESTERVILLE, Ohio - A man faces charges after police said he hit an officer as he fled from a DUI checkpoint

7/9/2005 Ex-UD star skips DUI sentencing - Former quarterback will face new charge, Pa. prosecutor says
     WEST CHESTER, Pa. - Criminal charges are continuing to stack up against former University of Delaware and NFL quarterback Jeff Komlo, who has been a fugitive for nearly two months and failed to appear Friday at his sentencing for two drunken driving convictions.

7/9/2005 - Hancock school board member arrested
     KILN - Prior to Thursday's regularly scheduled Hancock County Board of Education meeting, Christopher "Packer" Ladner, who is the district one representative, was arrested for contempt of court and nonpayment of a fine, stemming from a December 2001 DUI charge.

7/8/2005 - Judge tosses out DUI evidence against sheriff
     BELOIT, Kan. (AP) - A DUI charge against Mitchell County Sheriff Doug Daugherty could be dropped after a district judge on Friday ruled breath test results in the case were inadmissible.

7/8/2005 - Driver, passenger charged with OUI
     After pulling him over for speeding on Rock Harbor Road at approximately 1:40 a.m. July 2, police arrested 36-year-old Eric J. Lavendier of Norton on charges of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol, operating to endanger and marked lanes after he allegedly failed a field sobriety test.
     According to police, 45-year-old Steven A. Wilbur of Millbury was a passenger in Lavendier's vehicle, and officers took him home after determining he was intoxicated.
     However, police said Wilbur drove to the police station shortly after 3:15 a.m. to pick up Lavendier, so he was arrested for OUI in the lobby of the station.

7/7/2005 - Former Davenport cop charged with OWI after incident
     Davenport, IA - A retired Davenport Police Department lieutenant colonel was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident after he attempted to flee the scene of a checkpoint.

6/28/2005 - Mayor's day in court
     Haverstraw's mayor must have his day in court, but should the charge of driving while ability impaired hold against him, Francis "Bud" Wassmer will have some explaining to do.

6/24/2005 - Judge to stay on job after DUI arrest
     Santa Rosa, California (SF Chronicle) - A Sonoma County judge who handed down the stiffest possible sentence in two recent high-profile drunken driving cases will remain on the bench after her arrest for reportedly driving under the influence, officials said Thursday.

6/2/2005 - Defiance resident in court for 18th DUI Alleged offense was 2nd in recent months
     Defiance, Ohio - A 42-year-old, unemployed Defiance man with a suspended driver's license was arrested for the 18th time for driving under the influence of alcohol after he allegedly left a gas station without paying for his fuel on Memorial Day.

5/28/2005 - Police: Director Oliver Stone arrested - Drug, DUI charges
     Beverly Hills, California (AP) -- Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone was arrested for investigation of drug possession and driving while intoxicated, police said Saturday.

5/17/2005 - ESPN Writer 'Tased,' Arrested for DUI
     Indianapolis, Indiana (WISHTV) - A respected racing journalist faces charges of drunk driving and resisting arrest after a police chase on the north side early Tuesday morning.

5/17/2005 - Vida Blue sentenced to 6 months in jail
     South San Francisco, California (AP) - Former major league pitcher Vida Blue was sentenced to six months in jail after failing to complete his probation from his latest drunken-driving conviction, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on its Web site Tuesday.

5/14/2005 -1,100 DUI cases face state review
     Palm Beach, Florida - The State Attorney's Office must review 1,100 of the county's drunken-driving cases from July 2004 through April to see which ones it can prosecute without evidence from breath-analysis tests, according to a prosecutor's memo to State Attorney Barry Krischer. The Friday memo came after a judge ruled this week that the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office method of maintaining breath-analysis machines unfairly damages the ability to defend against a DUI arrest.
 
5/11/2005 - Kentucky Man Gets DUI While On Horseback
     Somerset, Kentucky - A Kentucky man is behind bars for DUI, but officers said he never got behind the wheel of a car.

4/8/2005 - Man Drives Into DMV's Wall, Renews License
     Anchorage, Alaska (AP) -- A man drove his car into a wall at the Division of Motor Vehicles building, then walked in and renewed his driver's license, police say. Police believe the man was driving while impaired on medication and charged him with driving under the influence.

4/6/2005 - State requiring ignition locks for DWI. New Mexico 6th in nation for rate of alcohol-related highway deaths
     Santa Fe, New Mexico (AP) -- Chris Romero hops into his blue-and-white Ford pickup, clicks the ignition on and then off again, and reaches for what looks like a black cell phone hanging from his dashboard.

3/25/2005 - Proposal offers levels of drunken driving, diversion option
    Columbia, SC (Island Packet Online) - A state-level task force has drawn up several proposals to overhaul South Carolina's drunken-driving law -- a year and a half after lawmakers enacted other significant changes.The Impaired Driving Prevention Council met in Columbia on Thursday and approved a draft law that will be submitted, with minor alterations, to legislators next week. The draft includes a tiered penalty system that escalates for higher levels of intoxication and a diversion program for some first-time offenders.

3/23/2005 -  DuBose arrested for drunk driving
    Sarasota, Fla. (AP) - Baltimore Orioles pitcher Eric DuBose was arrested and charged with drunk driving after sheriff's deputies saw him driving erratically, according to documents authorities released Tuesday.

3/22/2005 - 'Growing Pains' Actress Gets Probation
    Ventura, CA (AP) - Former "Growing Pains" actress Tracey Gold was placed on three years' probation after she pleaded guilty to a second felony drunken driving charge in a rollover crash that injured her husband and two of their three children.

3/10/2005 - Arrest of Senator's Wife Brings Political Paradox
    Washington, D.C. (Wash. Post) -- Sen. John A. Giannetti Jr. (D-Prince George's) has long waged a legislative battle against drunken driving, filing no fewer than four bills in the...

3/7/2005 - DUI Arrest For Backstreet Boy
   HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA (AP) -- Police say Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys was arrested last weekend for alleged drunken driving.

3/7/2005 - Fight over drunk driving law arrives at high court
   ST. PAUL, MN (AP) -- The Minnesota Supreme Court will spend the next few months considering the constitutionality of a law allowing authorities to revoke the driver's licenses of people suspected - but not necessarily convicted - of driving drunk.

3/4/2005 - Stadium vendor liable for selling beer to drunken fan
    TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A state judge on Friday upheld a $105 million verdict against a Giants Stadium concessionaire for selling beer to a drunken football fan who later caused an auto accident, leaving a girl paralyzed.