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A 10-page research paper dealing with the problem of driving while impaired. Discusses the effects of various impairing substances on driving ability, the costs to society of the impaired-driving problem, and how it has affected society from a health and safety standpoint. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_90dwimp.rtf
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vary, the number of lives lost each year directly to driving while impaired is beginning to rival, in the view of most experts, the numbers of Americans killed at the
height of the Vietnam War. Yet it has only been over the past 25 years that the scope of the problem has been recognized and efforts have begun to address
it. This is undoubtedly partly because the problem has increased with the rise in population, the increased number of cars on the road, and an increased availability of and disposition
to use judgment- and coordination-impairing substances, but also because of an increased disposition on the part of the public at large to view behaviors that endanger their safety and health
as pathological disorders which need to be addressed, rather than as an unavoidable part of life like floods and earthquakes. Whatever the reason, driving while impaired is now widely viewed
as a major societal problem, which must be urgently addressed by lawmakers, law enforcement and social scientists. I. "Impaired" Doesnt Just Mean Drunk. "Drunk Driving," for many years, was treated more
in the lines of a traffic violation than as a serious crime (Brook, 1996). It was only in the more socially conscious 70s and 80s when statistics were widely disseminated
and horror stories began to be shared. The public became aware of problem drinkers who caused accidents, even resulting in death, and who were repeatedly given fines and a "slap
on the wrist" (Brook, 1996). Not only were they not given jail time for their actions, they seldom even lost their licenses (Hingson, 1996). Beginning in the 1980s, groups like
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers and Students Against Driving Drunk worked to mobilize public opinion for stiffer penalties and to remove repeat offenders, who were involved in the vast majority of
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