This book came about as the result of a joint decision in 1958 by two units of the Public health service-the National institute of mental health and the then Accident prevention program ( now the Division of accident prevention, bureau of state services. to examine the proitem of drinking and driving in & series of small working conferences. Originally the intention in convening the working conferences was to provide the Public health service with & better integration of the facts in each of several areas of the problem than was available at that time. During the conference planning we were impressed by the knowledge that, first, many of the facts in the alcohol and traffic safety area were by no means settled, and, second, several aspects of the problem had not been looked at in a cohesive way from the particular vantage of the Public health Service's interest- accident pretention. In each of the five working conferences, a group of selected people having special competence and background discussed various aspects of the topic over a period of 2 full days. They oonsidered commonly held fallacious and correct opinions accepted and moot data, controversial subjects and needed research. The papers are collected in this book.
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