Drunk Driving Prevention Efforts

Brief intervention -- a series of four short counseling sessions -- can reduce a wide range of harmful drinking habits, including drunken driving arrests, according to a study of trauma center patients in New Mexico.

Communities can decrease alcohol-related fatal crashes by providing better access to substance abuse treatment while reducing the availability of alcohol in the community.

While the rates of drunk driving and highway fatalities related to alcohol have been declining in recent years, the rates of drugged driving have been increasing.

More and more law enforcements agencies are beginning to use a new high-tech tool that helps them track the alcohol consumption of previous offenders, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

A systematic review of ad campaigns against drunk driving, published in the June issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, suggests these mass media campaigns can reduce alcohol-related car crashes by 13 percent.

An estimated 300,000 incidents of drunken driving take place each day, giving Americans a shocking 112 million times a year they could encounter a drunk behind the wheel of a vehicle.

Young drivers in states with more restrictive driver-licensing laws have lower rates of heavy drinking and driving under the influence of alcohol than those in states with less restrictive laws.

A new cellphone with a built-in breathalyzer to test the blood alcohol level of users will not only warn them if they have had too much to drink to drive, it can also be programmed to block them from making embarrassing drunken calls in the middle of the night to ex-girlfriends, parents and bosses.

FullApologies.com was created to show the impact of driving while under the influence of alcohol.

During the 2002-2003 school year, Vermont driver education teachers and students were introduced to a state-of-the art, interactive CD-ROM program designed to help teens understand the consequences of driving under the influence.

This sourcebook is designed to provide a single, comprehensive resource that can help deal effectively with hardcore drunk drivers.

Built by students at Regis University and Mullen High School this Web site is part of a program in which students advise other students about health issues.

Rep. Nita Lowey and Sen. Frank Lautenberg proposed legislation that will have make any state that does not lower its blood alcohol limit lose federal highway funds.