Keene Police DRE Drug Recognition Expert Alcohol and Drug Impaired Driving Alcohol and drugs are part of virtually every culture worldwide. These cultures have evolved over hundreds, even thousands, of years. With the use of these potentially mind-altering substances comes also abuse.
Modern societies are mobile societies, and automotive travel is the principle means of movement.
For those empowered to ensure safety on the highways, there is an irreconcilable conflict between substance abuse and safe driving. The cost of this conflict is high, and its greatest impact is, perhaps, on future societies. Alcohol-related crashes cost Americans 46 billion dollars a year. Similar statistics on the effect of drugs on driving are difficult to find. If involved in crashes, they are not chemically tested for drugs other than alcohol.