Driving under the influence of alcohol is now the first cause of penal sanction in France, where society now requires a careful checking of the population of drivers before regranting their driving licence. But, if this wish of "cleaning" the roads of drunken drivers is a common objective, the administrative and technical tools are not well adapted to the request of the regulatories. Driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) is still often confused, in people's mind, with alcoholism, even, if the scientists know that an important part of alcohol related accidents are due to acute use of alcohol in non alcoholic people. The use of biological markers does not escape to this confusion. It seems now necessary, with the arrival of new marker of alcohol consumption, to define a strategy of use of those biological markers to improve the quality of medical assessments for drivers. (A)
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