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Do Your Part To Prevent Drunk Driving After leaving a holiday party, the bright lights you see should be from decorations, not from police cars or a hospital emergency room. The Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) urges you not to let drunk driving ruin the holiday season for you and for others. Be a responsible driver and a responsible party host. Since the mid-1990s, nearly 17,000 Americans have been killed and more than 700,000 have been injured in alcohol-related traffic crashes, according to the National Commission Against Drunk Driving (NCADD). During the month of December the NCADD, along with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and other concerned organizations, therefore, step up efforts to educate the public on ways to avoid such accidents by sponsoring National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month. In addition to participating in this campaign, MSSNY supports efforts to identify impaired drivers to make the highways safer and to achieve earlier treatment and rehabilitation of alcohol-abusing drivers. NCADD estimates that one out of every seven adults is a problem drinker and thus a potential drunk driver. The group advocates that everyone arrested for drunk driving should be screened for underlying alcohol problems. You can be a responsible drinker by sipping your drink, consuming food along with it, and then switching to a non-alcoholic drink. If you do drink to the point of impairment and have not designated a driver ahead of time, take a cab to get home. This information is provided by the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY).
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