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The Effect of Montana's 24/7 Sobriety Program on DUI Re-arrest Insights from a Natural Experiment with Limited Administrative Data [1]

Accession Number: 030010
Media Type: 
Document
Series: 
Rand Working Paper [2]

"Alcohol imposes significant social costs on the residents of Montana. The state has one of the highest alcohol-related traffic fatality rates in the nation, and alcohol accounts for more than one-eighth of deaths among working aged adults statewide. 24/7 Sobriety requires alcohol-involved offenders to abstain from alcohol and submit to frequent alcohol testing; those failing or missing a test face an immediate, but brief, jail term" (p. 1). This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the 24/7 Sobriety program. 24/7 uses a preliminary breath test (PBT) twice per day immediately on release into the community. Participation in the 24/7 Sobriety program reduced the possibility of DUI re-arrest by approximately 58%.

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Publication Year: 
2015
Length: 
27 pages
Tags: 
  • DWI [4]
  • Montana [5]
  • Substance abuse [6]
Author(s): 
Midgette, Gregory [7]
Kilmer, Beau [8]
Source(s): 
RAND Corp. (Santa Monica, CA) [9]

Source URL: https://nicic.gov/effect-montanas-247-sobriety-program-dui-re-arrest-insights-natural-experiment-limited

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[1] https://nicic.gov/effect-montanas-247-sobriety-program-dui-re-arrest-insights-natural-experiment-limited
[2] https://nicic.gov/series/rand-working-paper
[3] https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR1083.html
[4] https://nicic.gov/tags/dwi
[5] https://nicic.gov/tags/montana
[6] https://nicic.gov/tags/substance-abuse
[7] https://nicic.gov/authors/midgette-gregory
[8] https://nicic.gov/authors/kilmer-beau
[9] https://nicic.gov/sources/rand-corp-santa-monica-ca