What is the role of adolescent psychology and drunk driving by teens?
Addiction causes changes in psychology and behaviors, not the other way around. To understand DUIs, we need to understand addiction, as that drives everything else (and most DUIs are addicts). Underlying psychology is irrelevant.
This is true for young DUIs as well as older ones. The typical recovering alcoholic informs us he or she triggered addiction during the first drinking episode--average age, 13. Actress Drew Barrymore tells us she drank addictively at age 8. Most alcoholics are in the throes of functional early-stage alcoholism by the time they are licensed to drive.
Non-addicts have a difficult time functioning at high blood alcohol levels. They don't think they're God or act recklessly while under the influence; they may act silly and loosen up ...
