alcohol awareness and decrease in alcohol consumption increased publicity about prevention ‚ and general car safety measures (Stewart and Fell . Starting 1980s ‚ drunk driving has been conceptualized as a criminal justice issue . With the effect of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD ) and some other citizen activist groups ‚ the issue has become a public policy
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Texting and Driving Adrianna Contreras Kaplan University CM220 Professor Thompson May 1‚ 2012 In the middle of the night‚ a police comes to the Johnsons door to tell them that an accident has occurred and that their teenage daughter is deceased and another teen is in critical care. The accident was caused by texting and driving. Now the Johnsons have to go the morgue and identify their daughter‚ this is an accident that could have been prevented. In the Treasure Valley‚ there have been
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called "MADD" (Mothers against drunk driving).is the nation’s largest nonprofit working to protect families from drunk driving and underage drinking. MADD also supports drunk and drugged driving victims and survivors. This organization is very helpful to mothers‚ Fathers anyone who has lost a loved one to drunk driving or who has become a victim to drunk driving. SADD -This group‚ SADD‚ which orginally stood for Students Against Driving Drunk‚ ( commonly transposed as Students Against Drunk Driving
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wildlife and animals‚ and giving people food. These organizations are also made to help enforce some of the laws. Without organizations like MADD‚ ASPCA‚ and Habitat for Humanity‚ our community would be worse than it is now. The MADD‚ or Mothers Against Drunk Driving‚ is an organization founded by Candace Lynne Lightner in 1980‚ when her daughter was killed in a drunk driving accident. Mrs. Candace was furious when she found out that the person that hit and killed her daughter wouldn’t spend
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Driving under the influence may not seem like a big ordeal to teens but in reality it should be taken more cautiously. When being in control of a running vehicle‚ driving drunk can have an effect on your mental and physical ability. This is where the problem goes unnoticed because many teens now a days think that they have the capability to hold their liquor and proceed on driving. What teens need to realize is that receiving a driver’s license is a privilege that should not be taken advantage of
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to whom this may concern‚ I am writing this essay to explain how organizations such as MADD‚ LULAC‚ and NAACP can help U.S. citizens change laws that people feel need to be changed. Also explaining what these groups do. First is MADD or Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Well MADD is a lobby group for drinking and driving and they’re a huge organization throughout North America. Their main goal is to prevent people from drinking and driving because it is a killer in Canada and US. MADD has helped
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alcohol-related crash in their lives. Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for teens‚ and roughly 1/3 of these accidents involve alcohol or another substance. How is one organization or group trying to solve this problem? The Mother Against Drunk Driving was created to aid the victims of crimes performed by individuals driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs‚ to aid the families of such victims and to increase public awareness of the problem of drinking and drugged driving
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you as a mother‚ or father want to get a shocking call about your son/daughter dead or in the hospital from having a car accident for being drunk while driving? Or because somebody was drunk while driving and they crashed into your son/or daughter and now shes in the hospital paralyzed? Well this is why MADD was incorporated on September 5‚ 1980 to help prevent drunk driving‚ and help stop underage drunk drivers or under aged drugged drivers‚ also to help and make families safer .MADD Mothers Against
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the driver but also the innocent bystanders. So‚ what are the causes of drunk driving? For teens‚ it’s caused by our urge to rebel and our unwillingness to speak out against it. The first cause is rebellion. Whether we’re ditching class‚ staying out past curfew‚ or driving while drunk‚ teens have always been known to rebel against authority. Teens have been told not to drink and drive‚ but it’s in our nature to scratch our itch to rebel. Teens often brag about drinking and driving as long as they
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liquor." (qtd. in Westbrook) Texas is a zero tolerance state for underage drinking it has some of the strictest penalties for underage drinking‚ and if 80% of the teenagers in Texas have had experiences with alcohol that tells me that the campaigns against underage drinking‚ and zero tolerance programs are not working. Teens are going to drink alcohol at one point of their lives. So instead of spending all this money to prevent teens from drinking maybe it should go toward programs‚ or educating these
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