Nothing will deter real alcohol addicts from drinking and driving. As their health slides away, relationships evaporate, families fail and disintigrate, and finally their livers swell, get fatty and start shutting down, they will drink drink drink to the end. What is a ticket or a minor humiliation to someone who is already losing everything that really matters? It’s a teacup of water on a drowning mans head, that’s what. Sure it might shape up the social drinkers making a one time mistake, but people driving drunk anymore are the people deep in the abyss. It’s not the 60′s or 70′s anymore where everyone is doing it and it’s excused. I think the first DUI should force a mandatory in-facility dryout and education. More than that should incur some kind of monitoring similar to parole. The education that includes more than the 12 step politically correct formula and include Rational Recovery and other methods.
