Drinking Driver Program
Education and prevention
program that addresses the attitudes and behaviors associated with intoxicated
and impaired driving related to alcohol use and abuse.
DMV Required
Seven Session Education and Prevention Program
Clinical Assessments
and Treatment Referrals
Safe Driver Presentations
Providing motorists who
are convicted of an alcohol or drug-related offense an opportunity to participate
in an educational and rehabilitative process. Offered through the NYS Department
of Motor Vehicles.
A 16-hour course on driving
safety, the effects of alcohol and other drugs on driving ability, and the
social and personal impact of driving while impaired or intoxicated.
Evening and Saturday
Classes
English/Spanish
Year-Round Schedule
The first class of the New
York State Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Program was held in September
1975. The Drinking Driver Program (DDP), as it is now also known, has operated
continuously since.
The goal of the New York State Drinking Driver Program is to prevent repeat
drinking and driving on the highways of this state and thereby reduce the
accident involvement potential of participants. The DDP is available to
those motorists convicted of driving while intoxicated or driving while
impaired. Eligible participants may retain limited driving privileges
on the condition that they fulfill all requirements of the Drinking and
Driver Program. The requirements include attendance at, and participation
in, a seven-week, sixteen-hour educational program and, if necessary, evaluation
and treatment for alcohol or substance abuse.
The program helps motorists examine the arrest experience and the factors
that led to an arrest, and helps drivers make appropriate driving decisions
for the future. In addition, the program screens motorists for possible
alcohol and/or other drug abuse problems, using standard, objective screening
criteria. The two-phase approach provides education to assist social drinkers
to make low-risk drinking and driving decisions, and referral for those
whose drinking or other drug use is out of control. In this way, the program
meets the diverse needs of the driver population convicted of operating
while impaired by alcohol or other drugs.
For more information
please contact
Drinking Driver Program
(212) 252-7001
or by e-mail at
awhite.acny@alcoholism.org
