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Impaired Driving Statistics
Montana DUI & Alcohol Facts
Learn about Liquor Distribution in Montana In 1995, the State Legislature directed the Department to convert all remaining state liquor stores to privately owned agencies. All agencies now own their liquor inventories and are permitted to set their own retail prices. However, the State establishes prices for liquor sold to licensees and continues to run the wholesale distribution operation.
Incidence of Impaired Driving
Impaired Driving by Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC)
Costs per Alcohol-Related Injury; Costs per Drink; Impact on Auto Insurance Rates
Prevention Savings of Impaired Driving Measures: Zero Tolerance Law; Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA)
Alternative Sentencing and Sanctions
Ankle Bracelets Monitor Offender's Alcohol Use January 2006. Many judges order drunk drivers and other offenders not to use alcohol, but such orders can be hard to enforce even with drug testing. In Florida, however, judges are using ankle bracelets that monitor alcohol use at all hours of the day and night.
Enforcement
ACT Classes. Assessment Course Treatment (ACT) Program, required for most misdeamenor DUI offenders.
Repeat Offenders
Judges get new tool for chronic DWI offenders The word "staggered" is taking on new meaning today for repeat drunken drivers in the state. Staggered sentencing -- an innovative, if slightly controversial, concept championed by a western Minnesota judge -- is now a statute available for judges to use in sentencing statewide. --Unfortunately, in order to access this article, you'll need to create a membership for the site.
Substance Use Disorders
Alcoholic's Anonymous The primary purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous, an informal society of more than two million recovered alcoholics in the U.S., Canada, and other countries, is to help its members stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety. According to its Web site, AA "is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization, or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; [and] neither endorses nor opposes any causes."
Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation The Baltimore-based Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation is devoted to supporting research on the effects of alcohol on health and behavior and the prevention of alcohol-related problems. Since its establishment as a 501(c)(3) organization by the malt beverage industries of the U.S. and Canada in 1982, the organization has supported the projects of more than 360 academic investigators at some 170 universities and research institutions.
Drug Abuse Resistance Education Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or DARE, seeks to provide students with knowledge about the effects of drug abuse that goes beyond its physical ramifications and extends to its emotional, social, and economic aspects. The organization also aims to build decision-making and problem-solving skills and strategies to help students make informed decisions and resist drug use, peer pressure, and violence.
Get serious Get serious about alcohol policies that save children's lives.
impacTEEN Building on existing state- and community-level efforts, impacTeen, an interdisciplinary policy research partnership of nationally recognized substance abuse experts, is gathering data about youth alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use and abuse from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and a nationally representative sample of about 1,000 communities in order to evaluate the relative effectiveness of specific prevention programs and policies in reducing youth substance use and abuse.
National Families in Action The Atlanta-based National Families in Action, an institute under the purview of the National Institutes of Health, works to help families and communities prevent drug abuse among children by promoting policies based on science. NIAAA supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems, and also provides leadership in the national effort to reduce the severe and often fatal consequences of these problems.
Partnership for a Drug Free America The Partnership for a Drug-Free America, a nonprofit coalition of professionals from the communications industry, is dedicated to reduce the demand for illegal drugs in America. Through its national anti-drug ad campaign and other forms of media communication, the Partnership works to decrease demand for drugs by changing societal attitudes that support, tolerate, and condone drug use.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration SAMHSA was established by Congress in 1992 to strengthen the nation's healthcare capacity to provide prevention, diagnosis, and treatment services for substance abuse and mental illnesses. Working in partnership with states, communities, and private organizations, SAMHSA serves as the umbrella under which substance abuse and mental health service centers are housed. These include the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), and the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT).
Underage DUI
How State Laws Prevent Young-Driver Tragedies You read about it in your local newspaper. The combination of youth, inexperience, alcohol, darkness and heightened excitement can be deadly. But increasingly, and with great speed, states are doing something about it.
Strict Licensing Laws Associated With Less Teen Drinking and Driving Young drivers in states with more restrictive driver-licensing laws had lower rates of heavy drinking and driving under the influence of alcohol than those in states with less restrictive laws. That is the finding in a new report that utilizes data analysis of 1999, 2000 and 2001 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Household Surveys.
Underage Drinking and Impaired Driving The problems of underage drinking and impaired driving are more than any one organization can manage alone. NHTSA toolkits empower youth and their advocates to create safer, healthier communities.
Other Links
How do we know we're making a difference? The "How Do We Know We're Making a Difference Indicators Book." It provides ways to show data over time that may help make a case for policy change. This page uses traffic fatality information in connection with BAC.
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