Are truly working to focus on efforts to reach all at risk of alcohol harms and deaths?
Thousands of people die in alcohol car crashes each year, hundreds of thousands are injured. These numbers reflect some of the harms related to alcohol use in the U.S. Each year more the federal government estimates that 100,000 people will die as a result of alcohol related causes. The CDC (Center for Disease Control) estimates that some 3/4 of those arrested each year are problem drinkers. This would clearly support most harms and deaths actually are suffered by the impaired driver as cited in national reports: Alcoholics are 5 times more likely than others to die in motor vehicle crashes.(NIAAA, Eighth Special Report, op. cit., p. 233). In Louisiana, one can’t help but wonder why a focus has not been supported to carry a public health solution to remedy this public safety problem. Considering the fact that fatal crashes overly impact those who are impaired (those who are drinking alcohol and/or other drugs) we believe a new approach is necessary. It is not reasonable to think that t
