Los Angeles women and the bottle leading to more DUI's

According to FBI statistics, the number of women taken into custody in the U.S. for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs was 28.8 percent greater just two years ago than it was in 1998, while the number of men apprehended was 7.5 percent lower, according to figures that cover some 56 percent of the country.

Here in California, based on the same FBI statistics, women accounted for 18.8 percent of all DUI arrests in 2007, an increase from 13.5 percent nearly a decade earlier, according to the California Office of Traffic Safety, said Michael Bialys, Los Angeles DUI lawyer.