Doug Thorburn, Author
Foreword by Sgt. Thomas Page, LAPD, Ret.

$12.95 - Soft Cover, 115 pages, ISBN 0-9675788-4-1

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You may think you haven't seen many intoxicated drivers---but look again! This new book takes a revolutionary look at the road...and the alcoholic or drug addict headed your way.

Doug Thorburn, author of Drunks, Drugs & Debits: How To Recognize Addicts and Avoid Financial Abuse, takes you on a tour of the destructive mental processes of those drivers who infuriate and endanger the rest of us on a daily basis.

You will be amazed at how reckless driving behaviors can tip off even more serious problems!

A note from the author...

My name is Doug Thorburn. By profession, I’m a tax and financial professional (Enrolled Agent and Certified Financial Planner licensee). You may be asking yourself why a non-addict is writing a book on identifying Drivers Under the Influence (DUIs) when he is not a therapist, doctor, psychiatrist or even a person in law enforcement. It’s a long story, but I’ll try to keep it short.

Several years ago, I was romantically involved with an alcoholic. I survived the ordeal (barely) and, vowing never to go through anything like that again, decided I’d better learn a little something about addiction. I happened upon some Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and realized that was a good place to start. I ended up attending scores of meetings, interviewing hundreds of recovering addicts and reading almost as many books on the subject.

In the process, I began doing something that appears to have been unique. I found myself tentatively identifying addiction where it wasn’t even suspected based on repeated financial misbehaviors. I broadened this idea to include all misbehaviors committed in serial fashion. I eventually realized that I was on to something that seemed quite simple: if addiction causes distorted perceptions resulting in impaired judgments and manifests in observably destructive behaviors, the concept could be reversed. Where these behaviors were observed, I usually found addiction.

Thus my first book, Drunks, Drugs & Debits: How to Recognize Addicts and Avoid Financial Abuse was born. In it, I explain why we need to identify alcohol and other drug addicts, how to do so based on behavior patterns and actions to take to prevent tragedy in all areas of one’s life. However, I came to realize that many people are reluctant to intervene in the lives of those to whom they are close. So, I began to ponder the idea that more headway might be made by encouraging people to help the addict experience consequences when not personally known to them and in the area where they are most apparent and lethal: the road. This book is the result.