Experiences of family members of drivers who violate the law against rinking and driving and its repercussions

Elvira, Indianathan de Kassia Santana; Marcon, Sonia Silvia; Martins, Eleine Aparecida Penha; Oliveira, Magda Lúcia Félix de

doi:10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0466

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE • Rev. bras. enferm. 74 (1) • 2021 • https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0466 copy

Experiences of family members of drivers who violate the law against rinking and driving and its repercussions

Experiencias de familiares de conductores infractores de la ley seca y sus repercusiones

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ABSTRACT

Objectives:

to understand the experiences of family members of drivers who violate the law against drinking and driving and the post-penal repercussions.

Methods:

a qualitative study, with family members of drivers who violated the law against drinking and driving who participated in the Projeto Justiça e Sobriedade no Trânsito de Maringá - PR (Traffic Justice and Sobriety Project in Maringá - PR). Data collection was carried through semi-structured interviews, analyzed through thematic analysis.

Results:

it was observed in the family members' reports: the suffering of families due to the consumption of alcohol and other drugs; the violation of the law against drinking and driving meaning turning point, with positive and negative changes in the family context; and the meanings of the Traffic Justice and Sobriety Project.

Final Considerations:

the law against drinking and driving penalties triggered unemployment and financial expenses, but the positive aspects were quitting alcohol use and/or not drinking and driving anymore. The Traffic Justice and Sobriety Project was informed as solidarity and a trigger for changing the offenders' behavior.

Descriptors:
Alcohol Intoxication; Family Relationships; Drive Under the Influence; Accidents, Traffic; Public Health Nursing

Thematic categories	Textual fragments (speeches)
Fights	He assaulted his ex-wife, threatened them, so they separated. After that, alcohol abuse became terrible. (F7: sister of the 43-year-old offender, charged in a traffic accident) We often fight because he comes home every day stressed and under the influence of alcohol. (F4: wife of the 49-year-old offender, charged in a traffic inspection)
Financial Spending	The problem was when he used the money that was for paying bills to buy drinks, that was complicated, because we depended on that money. (F8: sister of the 43-year-old offender, charged for a traffic accident)
Codependency	My mother and I suffered a lot. We care so much about him; we never know where he is. We wonder if he ate, if he did not eat, if someone is going to beat him. My mother is sick, I am depressed, I cry a lot because of that. (F7: sister of the 43-year-old offender, charged in a traffic accident)
Binge^* * Sporadic and excessive consumption in a short period. and daily consumption	For me it is difficult, it is always tense, not knowing what will happen. He's not an alcoholic. The problem is on the weekend that he drinks a lot with friends. (F3: sister of the 30-year-old offender, charged in a traffic inspection) He has a serious problem with alcohol. He should seek treatment because he cannot do it alone. Since I am with him, he drinks every day. Is very sad. (F4: wife of the 49-year-old offender, charged in a traffic inspection)
Fear	The biggest problem is an accident with him. We don't want people to die. The biggest problem is if he dies. (F1: mother of the 39-year-old offender, charged in a traffic inspection) The hard part is that you destroy another family, another innocent life. This is the worst consequence. How are we going to live with that for the rest of our lives? (F2: sister of the 49-year-old offender, charged in a traffic accident)

Thematic categories

Textual fragments (speeches)

Unemployment
and financial
expenditure

This violation was devastating, not because it was wrong, we know that you can't drink and drive... What really hurt our family was that it caused the loss of his license (National Driver's License). He was a truck driver, it was his life, he worked for a good company. (F2: sister of the 49-year-old offender, charged in a traffic accident)

He was very sad about the situation. He spent money on a fine, on bail and still lost his job. (F8: sister of the 43-year-old offender, charged for a traffic accident)

It was all very painful, especially losing his job, but you know that thing that has to happen to see if the person wakes up? (F2: sister of the 49-year-old offender, charged in a traffic accident)

Turning point^* * Turning point, a moment when the individual becomes aware of his actions from an impacting event.

It was after the [traffic] accident [...]. He stopped drinking, he's been sober for ten months, he's trying to get back to his job as a truck driver. He realized that you can't drink and drive. It took all this for him to stop drinking. (F8: sister of the 43-year-old offender, charged for a traffic accident)

I think the law against drinking and driving is good, because if we [his family] care. We cannot resolve the issue of driving while intoxicated, the police can. Now he is aware that he cannot drink and drive [...] Today, he still drinks, continues to drink the same and exaggerates a lot on the weekend, but now he always calls someone to drive him, or calls those UBER, just this happening, it's already good, he just needs to stop drinking. (F3: sister of the 30-year-old offender, charged in a traffic inspection)

I think he got better. He lets [me] drive now and before only he was driving. He's using a lot of UBER when he goes out alone and leaves the car with me. (F4: wife of the 49-year-old offender, charged in a traffic inspection)

After that, he doesn't drive drunk anymore. the law against drinking and driving served as a reality check, both for punishment and for the consequences it has had on our lives. (F5: wife of the 44-year-old offender, charged in a traffic accident)

Thematic categories	Textual fragments (speeches)
Participation in the Traffic Justice and Sobriety Project	After he performed the activities at SAMU and the hospital, he changed a lot. One day he told me that he cried when he saw a [cervical] necklace, the one that he put around his neck, it was from a child and it was all full of blood. Then he thought that he could have hurt that child, he was really upset. (F2: sister of the 49-year-old offender, charged in a traffic accident) He had to go to the hospital and help injured people. I think it was what he needed to improve. Sometimes we talk and get full of it, but when we think, to be part of that moment was remarkable. (F3: sister of the 30-year-old offender, charged in a traffic inspection)
Psychosocial treatment relapse	After the violation, he participated in the project at the hospital, he was fine for nine months, nine months without drinking alcohol and without smoking. He is a bricklayer's assistant, he was working, doing everything right, he was here near us [...] but then everything came back again. He ended up selling the car, and as he was barely working now, he could not buy another one, thank goodness, if he had a car, he would be driving drunk, because he drinks every day. (F7: sister of the 43-year-old offender, charged in a traffic accident) It was after that that he was hospitalized, I think he reconsidered the situation he was living in, unfortunately he wanted to leave afterward [from the rehabilitation clinic], and started using again [drugs], and was arrested for drug trafficking. (F1: mother of the 39-year-old offender, charged in a traffic inspection)
Importance of the Project in rehabilitation	I thought there was too short, it should have been more hours to participate, because it helps. He came home and spoke about it. We realized that it was important to him. (F6: mother of the 37-year-old offender, charged in a traffic accident) The hours he had to accomplish for services in hospitals were few. He was shocked by the hurt people [...]. (F3: sister of the 30-year-old offender, charged in a traffic inspection)

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[1] Corresponding author: Indianathan de Kassia Santana Elvira E-mail: indianathan_19@hotmail.com