I am hoping that through my position paper, I can strongly dispute people who oppose stricter laws and consequences for drunk drivers, while adding personality and emotion to the statistics.
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/DrinkingAndDriving.html
Great summaries of possible fixes to the DUI problem, along with why some methods in place are not as effective as some may assume.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/drving.htm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There are a lot of solid, summarized facts on this page, along with numerous sources from which the facts were pulled.
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers. We have all heard of this organization. They do much more than present statistics. Their mission is to stop drunk driving and prevent underage drinking, but they do not publicly project their voice the way the Truth campaign has. They need to do something more than just preach to a high school crowd and show disturbing pictures. I actually had not knowingly heard anything about or from MADD since elementary school until researching for this paper.
Drinkers against mad mothers. Although much of this site is absurd, I am using it to sift out some of the valid points held by the other side. They argue that the methods currently in place to fight drunk driving are effective enough, and in many instances are too strict. And many people have come to call it the DUI industry because of the money it brings in.
One For My Baby, but 0.08 For The Road by, Atul Gawande
An article about why 0.08 is a perfectly legitimate BAC level to set as the legal limit, and contains interesting results from studies about BAC levels.
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