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Safety Board Recommends Defining Legally Drunk With Lower Blood Alcohol Level
The government wants to drop the blood alcohol limit for being legally drunk in order to avoid drunk driving fatalities.
Diet-Soda Mixers Can Lead to Quicker Intoxication
Diet mixers can make you more drunk than higher-calorie options
7% of California Drivers Test Positive for Marijuana, but Are They Impaired?
For the 20 states in which marijuana is legal, either for medicinal or recreational purposes, there’s a new challenge for law enforcement: judging whether stoned users are too impaired to drive.
CDC: Teen Drinking and Driving Falls by Half
None for the road: drinking and driving rates plummet among teens since 1991
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Stoned Driving Nearly Doubles the Risk of a Fatal Crash
People who drive within three hours of smoking marijuana are at nearly twice the risk of being in an accident that leads to serious injury or death, compared with sober drivers, according to a new review of the research.
Do People Really Drink More When the Economy Tanks?
A new study suggests that in hard economic times, people drink more alcohol. Intuitively, it might make sense, but the findings run counter to most previous research, which shows that alcoholism and other drinking-related …
Drive carefully: 4th of July often rife with deadly crashes
Though roughly one third of all deadly crashes take place during the summer months, more than 80% of Americans think that winter is the most dangerous time to be on the road, according to the results of a new poll conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Excellence in Rural Safety. And, not only are there more
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More young women in deadly drunk-driving crashes
Closing the societal gender gap is a noble goal, but there is at least one area where women shouldn’t be striving to outdo men: drunk driving. While, in keeping with historic trends, overall men are still more likely to get into deadly alcohol-related accidents than women, a new study published in the journal Injury Prevention suggests
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The ER costs of treating drunk drivers
Drunk driving continues to be a major problem across the U.S., (especially in more rural areas where intoxicated revelers who don’t assign a designated driver don’t have many public transportation options). In 2008 alone, 11,773 people were killed in crashes where one of the drivers was over the legal limit, according to the
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