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    Driving drunk impairs you while you're driving and can impair your judgment to make decisions and judge things. Drunk driving doesn't just effect you. It can effect a lot of people in big ways such as losing a family member and changing some ones life as if you paralyzed them or something like that. I did not know that alcohol got into your blood stream and went into your brain in like 20 to 40 minutes. Also I did not know that you are impaired if the alcohol in your blood stream was 0.08. Those

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    Have you ever lost someone close to you because of a bad decision, or a bad decision someone else made? Drunk driving and driving under the influence of drugs is the leading cause of death in the United States. Everyday 28 people die in the U.S. because of a drunk or drug impaired driver. Everybody makes bad choices, even you and me, but there is a difference between a bad choice and a bad choice that can put others at risk of injury and death. For many people stress is the reason that drives

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    Social Issue Campaign: “Buzzed Driving is Drunk Driving” In the United States approximately every 52 minutes there is a fatality caused by drinking and driving. This issue has been one of the most talked about social issues in the last 30 years. The Ad Council has been one of the main voices behind the increasing knowledge of this issue. With their campaign “Buzzed Driving is Drunk Driving” they have been able to create a better understand of what “drunk driving” is. With the Ad Council’s use of

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    Drunk Driving Essay

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    Drunk Driving is an genuine issue that proceeds on take many passing’s every year. A really a lot of people existence have been lost to drunk driving crashes. An passing from drunk driving doesn't just influence the victimized person yet all the it influences Everybody around them for example, such that crew and companions. You quit offering on that one night, person drink, one confuse is every last bit it takes to drunk driving on make its toll. There are a lot of people answers for forestall drunk

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    Drunk Driving Patterns

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    and driving patterns correlate with drunk driving, which could lead us to figuring out ways to solve the issue. Finally, the last study we looked at was conducted in Norway, where drinking while intoxicated is also seen as a very serious crime. Inger Synnøve Moan, Thor Norström, and Elisabet E. Storvoll composed an article called Alcohol Use and Drunk Driving: The Modifying Effect of Impulsivity that describes the study. Researchers wanted to examine factors that contribute to drunk driving, such

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    Drunk Driving Essay

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    Against Drunk Driving, in 2015, 10,265 people died in alcohol-impaired drunk driving crashes and 21 people die every day as result of a drunk driving related crash in America (CDC). States that do not have strict driving while intoxicated (DWI) and driving under the influence (DUI) consequences have higher alcohol related fatalities and injuries due to intoxicated driving. I understand that sometimes people make mistakes and feel as if they don’t have any other option than drinking and driving, but

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    Resolutions for Drunk Driving Drunk driving has become a serious controversial issue. Supporters argue drunk driving kills each year, and there needs to be tough polices to prevent it. Opponents argue that aggressive methods needed for drunk driving violate suspects’ rights if they are under the influence of alcohol. In the article “Drunk Driving”, the author reminds us that “39% of all traffic related deaths are related to alcohol.” Thus, the drunk driving rates is high, and must be stopped because

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    Drunk Driving Report

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    “There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege” (Ventura). Drunk driving is becoming a growing problem in the United States of America.In America a blood alchol content is a 0.08 or above (“34 Random Facts About Drunk Driving”) .”18.4 percent of the population is classified as binge drinkers, and that another 5 percent are considered heavy drinkers” (Madden). “On average

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    Drunk Driving Impaired

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    Driving while impaired Drinking and driving obviously comes with multiple problems and consequences, but with problems, there is always a solution. It’s only been in the past 15 years that we as a whole have recognized the dangers that come while you are drinking and driving (Cooper, n.d). National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that this year there has people 500,000 people, or one person every other minute will get hurt in a alcohol-related accident. 10,000 will die due to drunk drivers

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    things you would mostly never do if you weren't drunk. If alcohol was banned it would solve many problems such as drunk driving and much more. Alcohol should be banned across the country. To start if alcohol was banned drunk driving would be eliminated. According to the CDC “In 2014, 9,967 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States”. Drunk driving is caused by alcohol, and without the drug people

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