Addiction, drinking behavior, and driving under the influence
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Driving Under the Influence: How Music Listening Affects Driving Behaviors
Published on: March 27, 2019
Frank A Sloan1, Lindsey M Eldred, Dontrell V Davis
1Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Abstract:
Using a survey of drinkers (N = 1,634), we evaluated alternative explanations of heavy and binge drinking, driving under the influence (DUI), DUI arrests, speeding citations, and chargeable accidents. Explanations included socializing, short-term decision-making, unrealistic optimism, risk preferring behavior, and addiction. Most consistent relationships were between substance use and alcohol addiction and dependent variables for (1) binge drinking and (2) DUI episodes. Respondent characteristics (age, marital and employment status, race, etc.) had important roles for DUI arrests. Drinker-drivers and those arrested for DUI are partially overlapping groups with implications for treatment and policies detecting and incapacitating persons from drinking and driving.
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