Responsibility, Paternalism and Alcohol Interlocks
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Recommendations on the effectiveness of ignition interlocks for preventing alcohol-impaired driving and alcohol-related crashes.
5 Alcohol-impaired driving is responsible for one death every 45 minutes in the U.S. The Task Force on Community Preventive Services (Task Force) has previously studied and made recommendations on several ways to reduce alcohol-impaired driving. The most recent fındings relate to programs to install ignition interlocks in the vehicles of people arrested for alcohol-impaired driving. The recomme...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Ethics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1754-9973,1754-9981
DOI: 10.1093/phe/phs015