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Innovative Programs To Combat Drunk And Drug-Impaired Driving Get A Boost
01.08.2023 - 02:01 / forbes.com / Jonathan Adkins
Alcohol, cannabis and multi-substance impaired driving have surged in recent years and account for about one-third of traffic fatalities annually in this country. A new round of grants aims to help lower that death toll by providing law enforcement officers with tools, resources and training to better identify impaired drivers and remove them from the road.
The new funding for drunk and drug-impaired driving prevention programs in four states – Maryland, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania – was announced on Thursday by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), a nonprofit organization representing state highway safety offices.
“Summer should be for beach trips and family vacations,” Jonathan Adkins, chief executive officer for the safety group, said in a statement. “Tragically, summer also brings a rise in impaired driving crashes and deaths, leaving countless families shattered and communities devastated.”
The GHSA, in partnership with Responsibility.org, awarded $120,000 in grants to four State Highway Safety Offices for programs designed to combat alcohol, cannabis and multi-substance impaired driving and help prevent avoidable tragedies.
The funding comes at a time when the number of impaired driving deaths has grown, rising 14% in both 2020 and 2021, the safety groups said, quoting federal statistics. Every day, 36 people die from alcohol-impaired driving crashes alone – that’s one death every 39 minutes. And drug- and multiple substance-impaired driving have increased in recent years, the groups noted. “As more states legalize cannabis, these dangerous driving behaviors must be addressed to save lives.”
The state programs that will be funded with the new grants include:
Maryland, where the consumption of recreational adult-use cannabis recently became legal, will implement several initiatives to help law enforcement officers better detect impairment. These include: providing training manuals and expanding its “green labs,” which involve giving volunteers a controlled dose of cannabis (and in some cases a combination of cannabis and alcohol) and allowing officers to perform a series of sobriety tests to witness the impairing effects of these substances.
Pennsylvania will feature two programs designed to address offenders convicted of driving under the influence of drugs: using a remote monitoring system to determine if offenders in the Lackawanna County Treatment Court are continuing to use drugs or other impairing substances; and building a comprehensive library of the most commonly used drugs by drivers convicted of a DUI offense.
Missouri plans to expand its ability to train law enforcement officers to conduct roadside blood tests through the development of an in-state phlebotomy
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