Washington, D.C. – A government report shows Alabama is among the states with the lowest rates for driving under the influence of illicit drugs within the past year.
The states with the lowest rates are: New Jersey, 3.2 percent, Alabama, 3.4 percent, and North Dakota and South Dakota, 3.5 percent.
The report says the upper Midwest has the worst drunken driving rates in the country.
More than a quarter of adult drivers in Wisconsin have admitted driving drunk. Rounding out the worst five states in the three-year survey, North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota.
The most sober drivers are found in Utah, the only state with fewer than 10 per cent of drivers saying they have gotten behind the wheel after drinking. Several southern states are in the top five, including West Virginia, Arkansas, Kentucky and North Carolina.
Nationwide, 15 percent of the 127,000 adults questioned in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health say they had driven under the influence of alcohol.
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The report can be found at: http://www.samhsa.gov/
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