Managing Heavy Drinking to Avoid Impaired Driving: A Study of Interlock Users

Data will be collected covering the 3 months before the interlock is installed, the 6 months when the interlock is on the vehicle, and the 3 months following its removal. The Timeline Followback (TLFB) method will be used to build detailed scenarios of drinking-driving practices in each of those periods. Knowledge about how participants change their drinking and/or driving behaviors to order to start their cars will be useful to treatment specialists, probation officers, and interlock providers who deal with DWI offenders. More significantly, these results will provide a basis for developing interventions that extend the safety benefits of the altered drinking-driving behaviors adopted while on the interlock into the period following interlock removal.