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Drinking Drivers and Alcoholics Are They From the Same Population?

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Research Advances in Alcohol and Drug Problems

Part of the book series: Research Advances in Alcohol and Drug Problems ((AADP,volume 7))

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The question of whether alcoholic and drinking–driving populations are the same was first formally posed in 1950, at the First International Conference on Alcohol and Traffic Safety, by Dr. Leonard Goldberg. Since then, many attempts have been made to answer this question and the responses have oscillated between the negative and the positive boundaries. The initial perception, at the time of Goldberg’s inquiry, was that drinking drivers were mostly social drinkers (Piga, 1950; Hirsch, 1956). During the 1950s, Goldberg (1955), Popham (1956), and others reported on research, suggesting that the incidence of alcohol addiction, abuse, and excessive drinking seemed to be high among drunken drivers and that drunken drivers did not seem to be a random sample of drivers in general.

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Vingilis, E. (1983). Drinking Drivers and Alcoholics Are They From the Same Population?. In: Research Advances in Alcohol and Drug Problems. Research Advances in Alcohol and Drug Problems, vol 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3626-6_8

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