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 some time in their lives,

Latham's team reports in the October Archives of General Psychiatry. About one-third of both the men and women also cited past bouts of illicit-drug dependence.   http://sheehan.myblogsite.com  For those who had abused alcohol, half the women and one-third of the men had suffered other mental ailments, mainly post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire .