Improved recovery of repeat intoxicated drivers using fingernails and blood spots to monitor alcohol and other substance abuse.

CONCLUSION: These findings demonstrate the benefits of more individualized interventions with repeat OWI offenders and calls for further development of multimodal approaches in traffic medicine including those that use direct alcohol biomarkers as evidence-based practices to reduce recidivism.
PMID: 27285956 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - November 4, 2016 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Bean P, Brown G, Hallinan P, Becerra S, Lewis D Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research