Using roadblocks to reduce drunk driving: public health or law and order?

Sanctions, Law and Public Order

Clinical Action against Drunk Driving

In advance of a safety campaign on 17 March 2017, Donald Redelmeier and Allan Detsky call on physicians and clinical colleagues to reduce the chances that patients will drive drunk.

Epidemiologic Perspectives on Drunk Driving

What is the one element found in approximately half the U.S. highway fatalities? This question has been raised over the last few decades and the answer is still the same: Alcohol. This answer generates another question: If a single, identifiable element is involved in such a large portion of a serious public health and public safety problem, should it not receive top priority for investigation,...

Gasoline prices and their relationship to drunk-driving crashes.

This study investigates the relationship between changing gasoline prices and drunk-driving crashes. Specifically, we examine the effects of gasoline prices on drunk-driving crashes in Mississippi by several crash types and demographic groups at the monthly level from 2004 to 2008, a period experiencing great fluctuation in gasoline prices. An exploratory visualization by graphs shows that high...

Drunk driving, implied consent, and self-incrimination.

The effects of drunk driving are a significant risk to public health and safety. Accordingly, the federal government and the states have enacted laws that permit law enforcement to identify offenders and to apply various levels of sanctions. There is no constitutional requirement that evidence of drunkenness be permitted in defense of criminal behavior. In practice, citizens who undertake to op...