[The Stockholm project: drunken drivers are given supervision instead of prison sentences].

Abstract

There is a need to compile a national database on drunken driving, since experience from other countries is not necessarily applicable to Swedish conditions. Legislation, drinking habits, and public attitudes to drinking and driving differ markedly from country to country. Since 1990, the driving licence unit of the Magnus Huss Clinic has been collaborating with a probation office unit of the National Prisons and Probation Administration and the Offender Aid Society on a non-institutional drunk driving program of at least one year's duration, often linked with several years' follow-up. The article outlines experience and results derived from this program. Among other things, blood alcohol content is questioned as an indicator of the severity of a drinking problem.