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Motor Vehicle-related Injury Prevention: Reducing Alcohol-impaired Driving

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The interventions reviewed aim to reduce alcohol-impaired driving and the associated deaths and injuries. Approaches include legislation and policy strategies, 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
Instructional programs Recommended
Peer organizing interventions Insufficient Evidence
Social norming campaigns Insufficient Evidence
Designated driver promotion programs
Incentive programs Insufficient Evidence
Population-based campaigns Insufficient Evidence

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Disclaimer

The findings and conclusions on this page are those of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services and do not necessarily represent those of CDC.

Sample Citation

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.

 

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The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services

Together, the Community Guide and the Clinical Guide provide evidence-based recommendations across the prevention spectrum.

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