Alcohol-Impaired Drivers: Reducing the Danger for Children, 4th Annual Public Health and the Law Conference

Alcohol-Impaired Drivers: Reducing the Danger for Children

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Panelists:

Nick Ellinger, MBS, Director of State Legislative Relations, Mothers Against
Drunk Driving National Office, Washington, DC
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Ruth Shults, PhD, MPH, Senior Epidemiologist, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC, Atlanta, GA
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The Honarable Thomas J. Wyss, Indiana Senate, District 15, Fort Wayne, IN
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Moderator: Linda L. Chezem, JD, Center for Public Health Law Partnerships, Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law, School of Medicine, University of Louisville; KY; Special Assistant to the Director, National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH
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Learning Objectives:

Describe the problem of drinking drivers who transport children and identify areas for potential intervention to reduce the risk to child passengers;
Describe alcohol-impaired driving and child endangerment laws designed to protect child passengers and some of the challenges faced in enacting and enforcing the laws; and
Discuss approaches for addressing child endangerment by drinking drivers in civil and criminal courts.

Resource Material:

Shults RA. Child passenger deaths involving drinking drivers—United States, 1997–2002. MMWR 2004;53:77-9. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5304a2.htm.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Every Child Deserves A Designated Driver: Child Endangerment Report. 2004. Available at: http://www.madd.org/docs/CE_Report_Final.pdf.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving. MADD Child Endangerment Recommendations with a State-by-State Overview. 2004. Available at: http://www.madd.org/docs/CE_Law_Breakdown.pdf.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Impaired Drivers, Child Passengers: An Unacknowledged Form of Child Endangerment. 2004. Available at: http://www.madd.org/activism/1,1056,1645,00.html

This page is last updated on June 20, 2005.