Healthy Drinking Science Healthy Drinking Science presents easy-to-use scientific information about alcohol in relation to specific diseases and conditions as well as articles, commentaries and much more on alcohol and health.   Designated Driving Doctors for Designated Driving is the voice of the medical community in increasing public safety through the promotion of designated driving. It invites all physicians and medical students to sign-on in support of its mission.   Standard Drinks Standard Drinks graphically illustrates information on the equivalence of standard drinks of beer, wine and distilled spirits or liquor. Its accuracy has been established by medical and other health professionals.   January 16, 1920 - Prohibition Begins Although Prohibition was repealed over 70 years ago, there are still hundreds of dry counties across the United States today. Curious?

Jauary 16, 1920
National Prohibition Began

During Prohibition (1920-1933), temperance activists hired a scholar to rewrite the Bible by removing all references to alcohol beverages.

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) strongly supported Prohibition and its very strict enforcement. Curious?

Some New Items:

Alcohol as a Dietary Supplement
Alcohol should be treated as a dietary supplement by middle-age people because positive health effects of drinking up to two drinks a day for women and three for men are so dramatic, say some researchers.

DWI/DUI Laws of U.S. States
DWI and DUI laws of all states , including license revocation or suspension, open containers, and blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limits, are listed in addition to drinking and driving resources.

Alcohol Abuse: The Economic Costs
Federal statistics on the economic costs of alcohol abuse fail to conform to standard accounting methods. For example, by such methods as looking only at costs and ignoring economic benefits generated by the production and distribution of alcohol beverages, agencies generate highly inaccurate statistics reports Gene ford.

Preventing Underage Alcohol Purchases
Alaska state law now permits an alcohol licensee to impose a civil penalty of $1,000 on any minor who attempts to buy alcohol in that establishment. There is now a strong economic incentive to catch underage persons attempting to make an illegal purchase. This law enforcement occurs at no cost to the vendors or to other taxpayers. It is paid entirely by underage minors who violate the law.

Alcohol Facts:

• The alcohol contents of a regular beer, glass of dinner wine and shot of whiskey or other distilled spirit (80 proof) are all the same. More»
• 83% of American adolescents don't drink alcohol. 1 More»
• Drinking among high school seniors has dropped 30% since 1982. 2 More»
• College freshmen drinking has hit a 38-year low. 3 More»
• Average age at first drink has risen from 16.1 in 1984 to 16.2% in 2002. 4 More»
• Distilled spirits (whiskey, brandy, rum, tequila, gin, etc.) contain no carbohydrates, no fats of any kind, and no cholesterol. 5 More»

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References:

1. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. Annual Survey, 2001.

2. Monitoring the Future Survey, 2002. University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research.

3. Cooperative Institute Research Program. Political Interest on the Rebound Among Nation’s Freshmen, UCLA Survey Reveals. Higher Education Research Institute press release, 1-26-04.

4. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Results of the 2002 National Survey on Drug Use & Health. Drug Abuse Statistics. Table 4.15A.

5. U.S. Department of Agriculture nutrition tables, 2003, p. 15; Prange, M. Plan to keep your drinking safe. The Record, (Ontario), 12-10-03.