Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website to its version as of 12:00 AM on January 29, 2025. Information on this page may be modified and/or removed in the future subject to the terms of the court’s order and implemented consistent with applicable law. Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from truth. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology due to the harms and divisiveness it causes. This page does not reflect reality and therefore the Administration and this Department reject it.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Motor Vehicle Injury — Alcohol-Impaired Driving: School-Based Programs – Instructional Programs

About this resource:

Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: October 2003

Workgroups: Substance Use Workgroup, Injury and Violence Prevention Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends school-based instructional programs to reduce riding with drunk drivers. These programs sometimes address only the problems of drunk driving and riding with drunk drivers alone but can have a broader focus on alcohol or other substance use. CPSTF found insufficient evidence about whether these programs reduce drunk driving or alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes.

Read more about this resource

Objectives related to this resource (1)

Reduce the proportion of motor vehicle crash deaths that involve a drunk driver — SU‑11
Getting worse

Suggested Citation

1.

Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2003). Motor vehicle injury — alcohol-impaired driving: School-based programs - instructional programs. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/motor-vehicle-injury-alcohol-impaired-driving-school-based-programs-instructional-programs