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Title: CDC: Self-reported drunk driving is down - decline due to down economy? Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on October 04, 2011, 11:24:43 PM http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MED_DRUNK_DRIVING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-10-04-13-26-45
Quote ATLANTA (AP) -- Drunken driving incidents have fallen 30 percent in the last five years, and last year were at their lowest mark in nearly two decades, according to a new federal report. The decline may be due to the down economy: Other research suggests people are still drinking as heavily as in years past, so some may just be finding cheaper ways of imbibing than by going to bars, night clubs and restaurants. "One possibility is that people are drinking at home more and driving less after drinking," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC statistics - released Tuesday - are based on a 2010 national telephone survey of about 210,000 U.S. adults. The respondents were kept anonymous. Nearly 1 in 50 said they'd driven drunk at least once in the previous month. That equates to about 4 million Americans driving drunk last year. About 60 percent said they drove drunk just once, but some said they did it daily. That led to a CDC estimate of more than 112 million episodes of drunk driving in 2010. That's more than 300,000 incidents a day. imbibes, imbibing, (imbibed) 1. To imbibe alcohol means to drink it. (FORMAL, often HUMOROUS) They were used to imbibing enormous quantities of alcohol... No one believes that current nondrinkers should be encouraged to start imbibing. Title: Re: CDC: Self-reported drunk driving is down - decline due to down economy? Post by: SUPERCOACH on October 04, 2011, 11:35:23 PM Let me get this straight. The CDC called 210,000 people and asked them if they drive drunk. And they promised not to tell the police if they answered yes. All so they could make a report with some useless statistics on it.
What a waste of time, energy, and money. Title: Re: CDC: Self-reported drunk driving is down - decline due to down economy? Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on October 04, 2011, 11:48:18 PM SC. There are many CDC buildings in Anniston located near the old army hospital on what use to be Fort McClellan. Homeland Defense remodeled the old hospital and turned it into a first responders training building.
Title: Re: CDC: Self-reported drunk driving is down - decline due to down economy? Post by: SUPERCOACH on October 04, 2011, 11:50:06 PM I used to live maybe 10 miles from the CDC headquarters outside of Atlanta.
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