Motor Vehicle-related Injury Prevention: Reducing Alcohol-impaired Driving
The interventions reviewed aim to reduce alcohol-impaired driving and the associated deaths and injuries. Approaches include legislation and policy approaches, sobriety checkpoints and school-based programs among others.
Task Force Recommendations & Findings
This table lists interventions reviewed by the Community Guide, with Task Force findings for each (definitions of findings). Click on an underlined intervention title for a summary of the review. These reviews were led by scientists in the Community Guide and CDC’s Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention.
| 0.08% blood alcohol concentration (BAC) laws | Recommended |
| Lower BAC laws for young or inexperienced drivers | Recommended |
| Maintaining current minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) Laws | Recommended |
| Sobriety checkpoints | Recommended |
| Intervention training programs for servers of alcoholic beverages | Recommended |
| Mass media campaigns | Recommended |
| Multicomponent interventions with community mobilization | Recommended |
| Ignition interlocks | Recommended |
School-based programs |
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| Instructional programs | Recommended |
| Peer organizing interventions | Insufficient Evidence |
| Social norming campaigns | Insufficient Evidence |
Designated driver promotion programs |
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| Incentive programs | Insufficient Evidence |
| Population-based campaigns | Insufficient Evidence |
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The findings and conclusions on this page are those of the authors and the Task Force on Community Preventive Services and do not necessarily represent the official position of CDC.
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The content of publications of the Guide to Community Preventive Services is in the public domain. Citation as to source, however, is appreciated. Sample citation: Guide to Community Preventive Services. Motor vehicle-related injury prevention: Reducing Alcohol-impaired Driving. www.thecommunityguide.org/mvoi/AID/index.html. Last updated: MM/DD/YYYY.
- Page last reviewed: February 10, 2009
- Page last updated: February 10, 2009
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