SOBERCHECK: an affordable personal breathalyser

Almost a third of driver fatalities on Australian roads occur as a result of high risk drinking according to the National Drug Research Institute and young people are affected disproportionately.

The impact of alcohol on society is much greater than the individual and there’s a huge opportunity to educate our children about alcohol through the education system that is being missed.

Such was the impact of the SoberCheck on some of the trial participants that they suggested the Sober Check was the best alcohol education tool possible and that the current education system was remiss in not addressing the downsides of the drug and the massive variance each person had in tolerance to it.

It certainly provided some staunch argument that the legal age for the consumption of alcohol should be lowered so that students could learn to deal with alcohol while they could be reached by the education system, and the availability of an accurate, low-cost alcohol detector should be considered in looking at the curriculum in the future.

There's also an even stronger argument for separating the age of legal consumption and the legal age for driving an automobile given what we learned from the Sober Check.

The Sobercheck is available here.