NACo Passes Resolution Supporting Transdermal Testing for Pre-Trial Populations
At last week’s National Association of Counties (NACo) annual meeting in Pittsburgh, the NACo Justice and Public Safety Steering Committee approved a “Resolution in Support of Continuous Alcohol...
View ArticleResearchers Using Transdermal Testing to Learn More About Drinking Behaviors
In June, researchers from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio and Wake Forest University published a study, “Comparing the Detection of Transdermal and Breath Alcohol...
View ArticleNational Groups Formalize Support for Transdermal and Continuous Alcohol...
Cost savings, risk reduction, and behavior change are three of the key benefits at the core of a series of recently-passed Resolutions from leading national organizations. A number of groups have taken...
View ArticleSlipping Through the Cracks: Fox News Op/Ed Hits on Mental Health, Crime
Earlier today, Fox News Medical Team member Dr. Keith Ablow published an op/ed piece on Foxnews.com addressing the issue of what he calls “aggressive psychiatric intervention” for certain criminal...
View ArticleTop 12 of 2012: North Carolina’s Laura’s Law Represents Paradigm Shift in...
In July of 2010, Laura Fortenbury, a 17-year-old Gaston County, North Carolina, teenager was killed in a head-on collision by Howard Pasour. Pasour was drunk when he hit Fortenberry and was sentenced...
View ArticleUK Court Reuniting Families With Alcohol Monitoring Technology
In the UK it is estimated that 2.6 million children live with a parent whose drinking puts them at risk of neglect, and 705,000 live with a dependent drinker. What does this mean for a family? Alcohol...
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