Driving while impaired by alcohol remains an issue in North Carolina. If the revised Booze It & Lose It pilot program changed driver behavior and subsequent alcohol-related crash rates during these 2 years, the change was too small to confidently detect. There are, however, some encouraging signs. Awareness of the Booze It & Lose It program has rebounded to a level not seen since 2012. And crash types typically associated with alcohol are down. Maybe most importantly, the pilot program is continuing under local control.
Farmer et al. (2026) studied this question.