For this study, the university's Institutional Review Board approved a series of questions related to using alcohol or other drugs, and being or using a
designated driver. Participation in the study was anonymous and voluntary.
Friends don't let friends drive drunk, but do they let friends drive high?
It is our mission to get those numbers down to zero with public education, promotion of
designated drivers, and the help of the Massachusetts State and local police.
A resolution to save your life
The Facebook application is designed to make it easier to organize rides for upcoming events, by allowing adults to volunteer to be the
designated driver or having the application randomly select one for the group.
A-B asks: "Wanna Go Home with Me Tonight?"
The HERO Campaign promotes the use of a
designated driver and was established by the family of Ensign John Elliott who was killed by a drunken driver in 2000, two months after graduating from the U.S.
MCPON praises efforts to save shipmates, stresses hazards of drinking, driving
"People do the right thing by catching a taxi home or arranging a lift with a
designated driver, only to spoil it by getting in their car at seven o'clock the next day."
Summer clamp on drink-driving
To deliver its new
designated driver message, A-B used celebrity Cedric "The Entertainer," who has appeared in Bud Light commercials.
Getting responsible
He thought it would be better to allow his friend's son--who was 12 at the time--to be his
designated driver. The child was taken home by ECO Hunt while the impaired adult was taken into custody by the New York State Police.
Bad example--Erie County
The "Drink Smart" 2-seater Car, driven by Wheldon and Michael Andretti, is present at all the IndyCar Series events and is meant to emphasize the importance of responsible consumption of beverage alcohol products as well as the necessity of using a
designated driver.
Vern Danielsen, chairman of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, gets ready to take a spin in the Jim Beam "Drink Smart" 2-seater Car--an actual IndyCar, with a 700 horsepower engine, stretched to fit a passenger
Brownells simply named it their
Designated Driver. A more appropriate sobriquet would read something like--handy dandy life saving skinned knuckle preventing stress reducing all in one screwdriver.
Brownells designated driver
Now, Brownells has brought us some kits designed with specific guns in mind and a very handy gadget called the "
Designated Driver" that will hold four -- count 'em, four -- Magna-Tip bits.
Brownells screwdrivers. (Gunny Sack)
How CASA and its journalistic
designated driver, The New York Times, handled the screw up reveals a lot about America's ongoing war between wets and drys.
Teenage wasteland: Prohibition was repealed 70 years ago, but the mind-set he behind it lingers on. (Rant)
In 1988, Jay Winsten, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and the director of the school's Center for Health Communication, conceived a plan to use television to introduce a new social concept--the "
designated driver"--to North America.
CAN TV IMPROVE US?
In 1980, the Harvard Alcohol Project convinced the writers of more than 160 prime-time episodes to introduce the new concept of the "
designated driver." A year later, 67 percent of adults surveyed recognized the term and in 1991, it was added to Webster's College Dictionary.
Subliminal Messages
Still, acknowledging that many teens do drink, the program encourages them not to drink and drive, much like the adult-oriented
Designated Driver campaign.
The Chief Operator Teen Driver Program
I consider the CFO the "
designated driver" in any company.
A CEO's perspective: the role of the CFO