To what extent can drink-related problems beyond loss of licence be inferred from excess alcohol convictions? Martin Roscoe, Senior Probation Officer with Hampshire Probation Service, challenges conventional assumptions and argues that the blood alcohol concentration level of drink-drive offenders, if interpreted accurately, reveals a pattern of drinking well above social limits, likely to indicate a very problematic pattern of consumption.
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