...Against Drunk Driving The Texas interest group MADD, which stands for Mothers Against Drunk Driving, is helping stop driving drunk and underage drinking. This interest group has been around since September 5, 1980. MADD is the nation’s largest nonprofit interest group. They support the victims and survivors of drunk and drugged driving situations at no charge. The Chief Executive Officer is Debbie Weir and the MADD National President is Jan Withers. The mission statement for MADD is “The mission of Mothers Against Drunk Driving is to stop drunk driving, support the victims of this violent crime and prevent underage drinking.” (“Mothers Against Drunk Driving”). Their short term goals is to get parents to start making sure their children understand the scary things that can happen while drunk and driving, stopping the underage drinkers. They also started the whole PASS thing Person Appointed To Stay Sober, to try and get more people to be more aware of what they are doing. The long term goals for MADD is the support they give their goal is to give so much support to the victims of the crime that the people causing it will come around and maybe even join the group. To this day MADD has saved 300,000 lives and counting. MADD represents all the mothers in the world, the victims of drunk driving and anyone who has been lost because of it. They are trying to influence the mothers that are not on board and the teen s that are susceptible to drinking underage and driving. They...
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...355 August 03, 2015 Tristram Jones MADD MADD, Mother against Drunk Driving, was created by Candace Lightner, after the death of her daughter. MADD was a group of mother's coming to support each other and change the consequences that drunk drivers received after being caught drinking and driving. The organization has lobbied for many social policy changes against the rulings of accidents and even state regulation on the legal drinking age for the 50 states. Because of some policies created new interest have arrived like the prevention of underage drinking. MADD movement all started after the tragic death of 13-year-old Cari Lightner. The Start of MADD On May 03, 1980 Cari Lightner was walking along a quiet road on her way to a church carnival when a car swerves out of control, striking and killing her (Stancato, 2013). After the tragic event Candy, Cari’s Mother started the group Mother against Drunk Drivers. Candace Lightner’s was determination to put an end to DUI’s after losing her 13-year-old daughter to a drinking driver. Who was not only drunk at the time of the crash, but also had two prior DUI convictions on his record before the incident (Stancato, 2013)? In fact, Clarence Busch had been arrested on another hit-and-run drunk-driving charge less than a week earlier before Cari’s accident (History, n.d.). When a DUI occurred, many drunk drivers were rarely prosecuted harshly. Few drunk drivers were subjected to jail time. Fatalities were still considered...
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...Brittany Morgan 13 March 2009 J. Stockdale WR 122 11:30 Drunk Driving Between World War One, World War Two, and the Vietnam War, five hundred thousand one hundred and sixty-one people were killed; drunk driving has killed an estimated one point seven million people since World War One (Fehrenbach). According to the MADD group, fifty to seventy-five percent of drunk drivers whose licenses are suspended continue to drive. Lives are lost because of people’s selfishness and dangerous activity while under the influence of alcohol, and the punishment does not fit the crime. According to the Mothers Against Drunk Driving advocacy group, About three in every ten Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash at some time in their lives. On average someone is killed by a drunk driver every forty minutes. In two-thousand seven alone, an estimated twelve thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight people died in drunk driving related crashes (MADD). Edgar Snyder and Associates reports that alcohol-related car crashes kill someone every thirty-one minutes and injure someone every two minutes. In Oregon alone in two-thousand and seven, four hundred and fifty-five people were killed by drunk drivers. Thirty-three percent of those drivers had a point zero eight blood-alcohol content or higher. Frequent drunk drivers are responsible for almost sixty percent of alcohol-related fatalities (Snyder). Obviously, drunk driving is a huge issue. Right now, there are several punishments...
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...Driving under the Influence Abstract Driving Under the Influence (DUI) has been and is increasingly becoming more of a problem on the leading cause of vehicular deaths. This research paper will cover multiple areas of this issue such as National Statistics on DUI’s, The second most cause of DUI’s aside alcohol, How big the problem is getting, Who is most at risk, Particularly how it effects individuals in the military, both criminally and long term and last, The program M.A.D.D. (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) and how this programs helps the community. As I mentioned before, the issue of DUI’s is becoming more of an issue every day and it is not getting any better. There is this misconception that individuals can only be considered driving under the influence when consuming alcohol but this is not the case no more. The second most inhibitor of driving under the influence is Marijuana. It seems like the more time goes by, the more states make it legal to smoke. This drug can be obtained easier then alcohol as when that time comes when there is, as long as the money is right, it can be brought by pretty much anyone. National Statistics on DUI’s The annual numbers of DUI’s is pretty hard to swallow and the following numbers are just with alcohol, not marijuana. * The average number of people arrested annually for drunk driving are 1,500,000 * The average number of people who die annually in drunk driving accidents are 10,075 DUI’s Arrest by age group...
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...Partners With Breathometer To Suggest Drunken-Driving Alternatives. Word count: 1,182 words (not included cover page, questions, in-text citation and references) Question 1: A brief description of the main ideas covered by the article Uber had decides to partners with Breathometer and created an app to help drunk people get home safely instead of drunk driving that might lead into having car accidents. The purposed of this app is to let users know how much they drink that might caused them to get drunk if so, users can call Uber directly from the Breathometer app. Due to this latest application has made the breathalyzer company ahead from selected company who are allowed to incorporate directly with Uber’s app such as Teleport, Amazon Echo, MedStar Health, DevLeague and Practo. The company claims its brand as a force against drunken driving and after launched the app, accidents from drunk driving of those who are under 30 years old has decreased by 60 per month and has saved 1,800 crashes in two and a half years. However, the article also mentioned that there is no specific evidence that Uber can prove to public whether car accidents of alcohol related decreased because of their apps or not. Nevertheless Uber is still an alternative choice to help reduce drunk driving, even when the company can’t prove that its service help reduces accidents, it can still support its title with apps that help to prevent drunken driving. The app work along with alcohol breathalyzers...
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...1987. Prior to being sworn in as Congresswoman, she started her career as an Assistant District Attorney serving the public of Brooklyn, New York. Rice dealt with countless domestic violence cases, as well as cases of gang violence- all of which lead her to ultimately join the “Homicide Bureau.” This elite group serves as a legal adviser to police in homicide cases, and it aids in investigating and prosecuting some of the most high-profile...
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...background which shows the perniciousness of smoking and dunk drive. The second part will show the content of the smoking advertisement, and the third part will introduce the target audiences and influence to people by AIDA. After that, the dunk drive advertisement will be presented. The first part of this advertisement will present the content. And then, this essay will introduce the adverting media of this advertisement and advantages. Finally, this essay will introduce the marketing ethics and segmentation. There are many reasons cause health hazards in recent years, such as smoking and drunk driving. Smoking is the main element of preventable deaths. Accounting to the research shows that about 80,000 people death in England in 2011 and nearly 9,500 children illness because of secondhand smoke (Jane Ellison, 2013). Additionally, excessive drinking is another threat, especially dunk driving. In 2012, there are 290 people dead cause by drinking, which occupied with 17 percent in all the road traffic accidents (Ray Massey, 2013). Thus, those two social advertisements were made. The first advertisement is about smoking. The advertisement use exaggeration way to represent the harm of smoking. To begin with, a man comes out from his house and smoking outside. Then the cigarette becomes a shape of lung with he smoking. At the same time, a bird flies away. After that, the color of the lung is becoming black slowly. Finally, it leads to the lung failure when the...
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...Alcohol plays too significant a role in society today and should be an after thought as opposed to the most essential addition to any social event. Alcohol creates numerous social, economic, and health problems that could very easily be stopped if it played a less influential role in every day events. The use of alcohol is prominent in, but not limited to three social circles that include students, family groups, and religious gatherings. Experts have much to say about alcohol use and abuse in these three categories, including all of the negative aspects of drinking. Social drinking is a common occurrence around America. Whether it is after work or after a football game, white collar or blue, two-thirds of the American population sit down at least once a week to enjoy an alcoholic beverage (Med.unc.edu). Many of these people do not realize that drinking is what leads to uncontrolled behavior, drunk driving, and in the long run, addiction. They are thinking only of the short-term effects, not the negative long-term consequences. People who regularly turn to alcohol eventually begin to neglect their families and other responsibilities, consequently wrecking the lives of loved ones and their own as well. While the lasting negative effects of alcohol use are spewed daily through the media, the problems will not stop until society completely understands how alcohol can indeed pose a serious threat to the nations social welfare. Alcohol has an adverse effect on the economy. The...
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...Drunk driving and devising ways to prevent it have been a long standing issue in our society, and rightfully so. However, there are individuals far worse dangerous to have behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. As reported in the American Journal of Public Health, a journal dedicated to the publication of original work in research, research methods, and program evaluation in the field of public health, Dr. Fernando Wilson and Jim Stimpson, in collaboration with the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), affirm that a person that is texting while driving is 23 times more likely to be involved in a car crash than a drunk driver (2010). Between 2005 and 2008, distracted driving fatalities increased more than 28% nationwide (Stimpson & Watson, 2010). Driving while texting has become an undeniable danger as these figures support. It is for this reason, as reported in the Dallas Morning News, that Texas lawmakers recently passed a bill, 124-16, to ban texting while driving (Hoppe, 2011). This bill has now gone on to seek much needed approval from the governor, Rick Perry. With so much support coming from the Texas House, it is expected for the bill to pass. However, one must keep in mind that Governor Perry has a penchant for vetoing bills, as was evident back in 2000 when he vetoed a record 83 bills in one day (CBSDFW.com, 2011). As of right now the state of Texas currently has a no-texting policy for licensed drivers under the age of 18 and anyone driving in a school zone (Hoppe...
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...attention: why 21? If you are considered by the law an adult at 18 then you should be treated like one in all aspects of it. Everyone has their own opinion on this matter, and there have been numerous arguments for each side. As I was surfing the web, I came across an article by Matt Nagin. Nagin’s article was “Top 3 Reasons Why the Drinking Age Should Not Be Lowered to 18”. It grabbed my attention so I decided to give it a look, Nagin’s 3 top reasons were, drunk driving, binge drinking and alcohol poisoning, and violent behavior all in that order. According to the article Nagin states that there is an average of 17,000 deaths related to drunk driving. This survey was conducted in 2010. The numbers have slightly gone down (Nagin). From all the drunken driving statistics rates were the highest among 21-25 year old at 23.4% and 15.1% for 18-20 year olds, but after the age of 25 the rates decrease (Nagin). The way I see it keeping the drinking age at 21 is not really making a difference because as the statistics show most drunk drivers are over the age of 21 anyways, so what good does it do to keep it at 21? I don’t believe the statistics will increase any higher than they already are, because the people that want to drink are already doing so. As long as alcohol is legal there will always be drunken related accidents and deaths there is no changing that. The second main reason why Nagin believes it should not be lowered is binge drinking and...
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...EVELYN M. PONGYAN IV-SINGAPORE MRS.SACOPLA INTRODUCTION Alcohol may be the world's oldest known drug. Fermented grain, fruit juice and honey have been used to make alcohol (ethyl alcohol or ethanol) for thousands of years. The production of products containing alcohol has become big business in today's society and the consumption and abuse of alcohol has become a major public health problem. The effects of alcohol abuse range from a mild hang over to mass destruction, disease and deaths on a huge scale. Alcohol use in moderation has little or no ill effects either for the user or those around them. But the misuse of what has become one of the world's most dangerous drugs takes a devastating toll on both the drinker and on society as a whole. Most agree that the occasional alcoholic drink never hurt anyone. The real danger lies in binge drinking and the development of a tolerance to alcohol, which causes the drinker to consume every greater quantities of booze in a bid to regain that original but elusive feeling of well being. PROBLEM Attached is a comprehensive community-based primary prevention plan for reducing high-risk and underage alcohol use in a community. Though it is important to realize that any effort to be comprehensive will always be lacking some components, the strategies/activities/tasks listed are possible examples of what could be undertaken to reduce high-risk and underage alcohol use. This plan is intended as a guide...
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...working now” (Engs). On many campuses around the country, led by the so-called Amethyst Initiative, the legal drinking age continues to be a controversial issue since it is believed that “twenty-one is not working” (Sanghavi). The old familiar argument is that turning 18 bestows the rights and responsibilities of adulthood such as voting, serving on juries, getting married, signing contracts, joining the military, buying cigarettes, watching porn and upon prosecution, trial as an adult. If adults from the age of 18 are trusted to do all of these things, they should also be trusted to make decisions about alcohol consumption. Some proponents find this predicament unconstitutional because it is discriminatory against the particular age group of anyone under 21. And even though the legal purchase age is 21, a majority of college students under this age consume alcohol but irresponsibly. This is because drinking is seen as an enticing "forbidden fruit," a "badge of...
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...misinterpretations and lack of knowledge can lead people in a society to believe things such as black holes that could potentially consume and destroy the Earth being created by the Large Hadron Collider. This is often the beginning of a phenomenon known as a moral panic unless it proves invalid by the masses or not profitable for institutions or organisations. First coined by Jock Young (1971:37) in his book ‘Images of Deviance’, edited by Stanley Cohen, his peer and colleague. It was Cohen (1973:9) though, in fact, who brought the phrase to the forefront of sociology and defined it when he said: Societies appear to be subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic. A condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests; its nature is presented in a stylised and stereotypical fashion by the mass media (Cohen 1973:9). This paper assess’ Cohen’s’ ‘moral panic’ as a useful notion for explaining increased social anxiety about criminal behaviour using his work on ‘mods and rockers’ and Wilkins (1964:90) ‘Deviancy Amplification Feedback Loop’, a cyclic process that alienates perpetrators and increases sensitization to their actions creating more frequent arrests and often harsher punishments. Moral panics come and go and more often than not the ‘problem’ has been around for many years before it becomes accepted as a phenomenon that requires attention and reform. Often these moral panics are scapegoats of bigger issues...
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...Ethical Distress Involving the Ministry of Transportation and Suicide For this assignment we interviewed Doctor JS from Family Practice X. JS had a patient who he believed was at risk of drinking and driving, he reported the patient to the MTO; the patient was so upset by the situation that he committed suicide. The following year JS had another patient who was drinking and driving however this time JS was nervous about reporting the patient for fear this patient might also try to harm himself. JS’s distress was whether or not he should report the patient to the MTO. Reporting is required by law but might cause the patient to harm himself however not reporting is against the law and could potentially put at risk all the other drivers and pedestrians this patient came in contact with. JS found this to be the toughest ethical situation because whichever choice he made there was the possibility of someone’s life being in danger. JS claimed “it was a tough pill to swallow" knowing whatever decision he made could cause harm. JS's value is the value of human life over all. This situation was very difficult because no matter what choice JS made there was a risk of someone’s life being in danger. JS maintained his values of placing human life above all else, and his desire to comply with the rules and regulations of his governing body. However, this situation impacted JS in that he found it very difficult to report to the MTO. JS felt he had to choose between reporting the patient...
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...Homicide by Intoxicated use of vehicle or firearm Wis.Stat.Ann §940.09 Issue: Is the taking of a blood sample a violation of Defendants fourth amendment rights? Rule: Wis.Stat.Ann §343.305(3) (West 2012) states (a) upon arrest of a person for violation of s. 346.63(1), (2m) or (5) or a local ordinance in conformity therewith, or for a violation of s. 346.63(2) or (6) or 940.25, or s. 940.09 where the offense involved the use of a vehicle, or upon arrest subsequent to a refusal under par. (ar), a law enforcement officer may request the person to provide one or more samples of his or her breath, blood or urine for the purpose specified under sub. (2). Compliance with a request for one type of sample does not bar a subsequent request for a different type of sample. S. 343.305 (3)(2) states if a person is the operator of a vehicle that is involved in an accident that causes the death of or great bodily harm to any person and the law enforcement officer has reason to believe that the person violated any state or local traffic law, the officer may request the operator to provide one or more samples of his or her breath, blood, or urine for the purpose specified under sub. (2). Compliance with a request for one type of sample does not bar a subsequent request for a different type of sample. A person who is unconscious or otherwise not capable of withdrawing consent is presumed not to have withdrawn consent under this subdivision and one or more samples specified in par. (a) or...
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