Researchers from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that after years of small but steady declines, reports of impaired driving rose 37 percent between 1997 and 1999. Moreover, binge drinkers were 13 times more likely to report having driven impaired than others surveyed.

Recommended steps to address the problem included lowering blood-alcohol limits, faster suspensions for DUI offenders, more sobriety checkpoints, and more use of ignition-interlock devices to prevent alcohol-using drivers from starting their cars.

Researchers led by Kyran P. Quinlan, currently at the University of Chicago, conducted the annual survey of 100,000-plus Americans. The report appears in the May 2005 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

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