People convicted of drunk driving may often need help not only for their alcohol

problems but for illicit-drug abuse and other psychiatric disorders as well, a new

study suggests. http://sheehan.myblogsite.com

Psychiatrist Sandra C. Latham of the Behavioral Health Research Center of the

Southwest in Albuquerque and her coworkers interviewed 612 women and 493 men, ages

23 to 54, about 5 years after their drunk-driving convictions. About 90 percent of

the participants reported having abused alcohol at