Drink Impaired Drivers

Programme aims:

To reduce the risk of future drink-related driving offences

Who is suitable?

Offenders, both men and women who:

• have up to four previous convictions for excess alcohol
• are aged 17 and over
• have been assessed as suitable for the programme in a PSR

Who is not suitable?

• First-time offenders, unless there are aggravated circumstances
• Those with five or more previous convictions for excess alcohol
• Heavy drinkers unless sequenced with alcohol treatment
• Problem drinkers until they are stabilised

This programme involves:

• Four individual structured sessions on risk assessment and group preparation
• 14 weekly groupwork sessions of two-and-a-half hours focused on structured learning to develop pro-social skills, effective decision making and detailed knowledge about the effects of drinking and driving
• Six post-programme individual evaluation and relapse prevention sessions

The programme aims to show how how lack of adequate planning, lack of knowledge, anti social attitudes to drink drivinglack of ability to generate suitable alternatives, poor emotional recognition and control, poor decision making and rationalisation can lead towards drink driving.  Its purpose is to encourage encourage participants to address these dynamic risk factors to avoid drink driving in the future.

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