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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Motor Vehicle Injury — Alcohol-Impaired Driving: School-Based Programs – Instructional Programs

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Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: October 2003

Workgroups: Substance Use Workgroup, Injury and Violence Prevention Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends school-based instructional programs to reduce riding with drunk drivers. These programs sometimes address only the problems of drunk driving and riding with drunk drivers alone but can have a broader focus on alcohol or other substance use. CPSTF found insufficient evidence about whether these programs reduce drunk driving or alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes.

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Objectives related to this resource (1)

Reduce the proportion of motor vehicle crash deaths that involve a drunk driver — SU‑11
Getting worse

Suggested Citation

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Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2003). Motor vehicle injury — alcohol-impaired driving: School-based programs - instructional programs. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/motor-vehicle-injury-alcohol-impaired-driving-school-based-programs-instructional-programs