driving after drinking when in a so-called “buzzed” state (meaning at or just above the legal BAC limit) versus being overtly drunk. Re- cent advocacy campaigns addressing this phenomenon include the Ad Council’s “Buzzed Driving is Drunk Driving” campaign. 12 POLICY CONSIDERATIONS Measure...
“It went like this: ‘organisations like (insert name) don’t speak for Aboriginal people[…] and these Aboriginal people over here disagree with you and so they were driving a wedge in the community” (non-government organisation representative #2) Profiting from addiction The alcohol industry...
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, “Alcohol Impaired Driving,” nhtsa.gov, 2009 Barry M. Sweedler, “The Worldwide Decline in Drinking and Driving: Has It Continued?,” Presentation for the 15th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety in Stockholm (Sweden), nts...
in the 1980s—and pressure from interest groups (e.g., Mothers Against Drunk Driving), many states in the 1990s lowered the legal limit ofblood alcohol content(BAC) for drivers from 0.10 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood to 0.08 and increased the penalties for driving under the influence...