Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Early Release / Vol. 61, October 2, 2012

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• Alternative Title:
  Vital Signs: Drinking and Driving Among High School Students Aged ≥16 Years - United States, 1991-2011
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Although every state prohibits persons aged <21 years from driving with any measurable amount of blood alcohol, many young persons still drink and drive. Additionally, fatal crash data indicate that most teen drivers with positive (>0.00%) blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) who are involved in fatal crashes have BACs ≥0.08%, the level designated as illegal for adult drivers.
  
  CDC analyzed data from the 1991-2011 national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (YRBS) to describe the trend in prevalence of drinking and driving (defined as driving one or more times when they had been drinking alcohol during the 30 days before the survey) among U.S. high school students aged ≥16 years. The 2011 national YRBS data were used to describe selected subgroup differences in drinking and driving, and 2011 state YRBSs data were used to describe drinking and driving prevalence in 41 states.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Traffic Adolescent Adolescent Behavior Alcohol Drinking / Epidemiology Alcohol Drinking / Prevention & Control Automobile Driving / Statistics & Numerical Data Binge Drinking / Epidemiology Binge Drinking / Prevention & Control Female Humans Male Prevalence Public Policy Risk-Taking Students / Statistics & Numerical Data

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• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), 2012; v. 61, MMWR: Early Release
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Subseries:
  MMWR: Early Release
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Issue
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  6 pdf pages
• Volume:
  61
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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• Download URL:
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