(Author) A. self-administered questionnaire was used to'compare Tselected driving, personality, and psychosocial variables 'of 306 convicted male drunk drivers with those of 289 alcoholics and 269 controls. She drunk driver group fell between the other,groups on many parameters but resembled the control groUp on as many others. While some 40% of the drunk drivers appeareA to be alcoholics, they...

Is alcoholism an illness or merely a self-inflicted indulgence? Can we afford specialist alcohol treatment services? Do they even work? Should the tax payer foot the bill? Is the lack of such services 'perverse'? In this lively debate Drs. Carnwath and Luty weigh up the pros and cons of controlling the effects of 'our favourite drug'.

BACKGROUND The low level of response (LR) to alcohol is genetically influenced in both humans and animals, and a low LR is a characteristic of offspring of alcoholics that has been reported to predict alcoholism 10 and 15 years later. The genes that contribute to a low LR have not yet been identified. METHODS A 12-item questionnaire that measures LR, the Self Rating of the Effects of Alcohol ...

THIS PAPER describes some of the facts gleaned from a survey of 578 unselected suspect drunk-in-charge drivers seen over the period between January, 1973, to December, 1974, by one police surgeon in Belfast. In some instances the information is incomplete as the individual refused to be examined or to give a specimen of blood or urine for laboratory analysis. For the purpose of the series resul...