Drunk Driving Predictions
As I was thinking about what to write my next blog post on, I came across this website concerning drunk driving and the accidents that it causes. This website talks of the prediction of the National Safety Council stating that approximately 184 people will die due to drunk driving accidents during the New Years holiday. It also predicted that an additional 10,000 people would end up seriously injured due to these alcohol related accidents.
The website also talks of an annual survey, the Household Survey on Drug Abuse, which states that about 25 million Americans said that they drove under the influence of alcohol in the year 2001. Also reported by this survey was the fact that 23 percent of people falling between the years of 18 and 25 drove after drinking alcohol.
The site stated that alcohol when compared to all other types of illicit drugs, kills 6 times more young people. A person's dependency on alcohol and drugs and the probability that they will drink and drive is greatly affected by the age at which they begin consuming alcohol and other drugs.
The last thing covered in this site was a national database of information called the Fatality Analysis Reporting System. It stated that in the year 2002, over 17,000 people were killed in alcohol related crashes, which represents about 40% of all traffic deaths. It was also stated that $114 billion dollars was spent annually to compensate for the economic burden of these accidents.
These statistics are very scary to me. I have, unfortunately, had a best friend who lost her mother, grandmother and younger sister to a drunk driver on the road. This is a very sore subject and should be taken very seriously. Especially being college students who enjoy going out to bars and drinking to have a good time, we must always be aware to not drink and drive. It honestly not only endangers your own life, but everyone else on the road with you. To find out more about this:
http://www.stopaddiction.com/PressReleasePages/184deathspredicted.html
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Here are some links to Centers For Disease Control (CDC) is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people.
Questions and Answers on Alcohol Consumption
General Alcohol Information
Alcohol-Attributable Deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost in 2001. The table at the bottom is interesting; it has the number of deaths and years of life lost. There are two and half times more alcohol attributed death for males compared to women.
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If you think you have a problem with alcohol or or other substances, then it doesn't hurt to go to go to counseling services to get some help. They're there to help you improve yourself. They're not going to be preachy, but they will help you work toward meeting some of your personal goals.
How do you know if you have a problem with alcohol or drugs? some signs: if you personally feel you drink too much, repeatedly try to cut down on your drinking but can't seem to (if you feel the need to control something, then that something controls you), or find that there have been negative consequences as a result of your drinking.
From someone who's been there and done it, I can say that while sobrietiy has it minuses, the plusses far outweigh the negatives.
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