Originally Posted by
ChipSeal
Will you be able to escort her at first? Perhaps some shorter rides with her? Something like that would help relieve any anxiety about traffic and the unknown. Real hands on bicycle advocacy, as it were! 
I'm more than willing to help her get started - if she'd accept the help. Which she very well may do now. Part of her 'sentence' has been counselling, AA meetings and mandatory classes. She does realize now that she has a problem.
Originally Posted by
dobovedo
DUI response:
I also stopped drinking and driving (always "being careful", but occasionally pushing the limit) after a good friend got a DUI and lost his license for a year. He rides as much as I do, but ended up commuting for 6 months until he got driving privileges for work. His lesson learned: bicycle commuting by choice is awesome, bicycle commuting with no choice is horrible. I was pulled over and tested on the side of the road not too long before his incident. Those two combined were enough to convince me, it just ain't worth it.
A major impact on my life growing up was my mother being hit by a drunk driver. I was 10 and she was in the hospital for 3 months - life sucked! But the one thing that always comes to my mind first (I guess because of the thought processes of a 10 year old), is my dad's cooking sucked sooooo bad.
The only time I drink is when I'm at home and don't have to go somewhere later, or if someone is a designated driver. The 'smallish' city that I live in doesn't have any public transportation.