Charalampous K D, Skinner T J
Hosp Community Psychiatry. 1977 Jan;28(1):333-5.
The authors describe a federally funded Alcohol Safety Action Project in Texas that attempted to change the drinking behavior of individuals arrested for driving while intoxicated. The project was one of more than 35 around the nation designed to deal with the problem of the drinking driver; unlike many others, its primary emphasis was on rehabilitation. The project functioned as a self-supported ancillary agency to the probation department; however, because of problems in coordination with the legal system, it had access to only about a fourth of the DWI offenders. Despite that drawback, and the inability to prove the value of the projects by the federal evaluation criteria initially set, the authors believe that the experience in Texas has demonstrated the advantages of combining the efforts of the judicial and the health-care systems to deal with alcohol abuse.
作者们描述了德克萨斯州一个由联邦政府资助的酒精安全行动项目，该项目试图改变因醉酒驾车被捕人员的饮酒行为。该项目是全国35多个旨在解决酒后驾车问题的项目之一；与许多其他项目不同的是，其主要重点是康复。该项目作为缓刑部门的一个自给自足的附属机构运作；然而，由于与法律系统协调方面的问题，它只能接触到大约四分之一的酒后驾车罪犯。尽管有这个缺点，而且无法按照最初设定的联邦评估标准证明这些项目的价值，但作者们认为，德克萨斯州的经验已经证明了将司法系统和医疗系统的努力结合起来处理酗酒问题的优势。
