Although drunk driving fatalities in the United States have been reduced by nearly 50% since the early 1980s, thanks to harsher penalties for DUI’s and the work of awareness groups like MADD, alcohol-impaired driving remains a serious problem on America’s roadways.
Cannabis is becoming recreationally or medically legal in a growing number of states in the United States, as neighboring countries like Canada and Mexico have either legalized the drug or are well on their way to doing so.
When the ball drops and ushers in the New Year, it will be legal to use recreational marijuana in Illinois, but there are still questions about the public health effects of the state’s new law.
How do you get a teenager to care about the damage alcohol might do to her body when the part of the brain responsible for this kind of thinking hasn’t developed yet?
We did an analysis which showed that a surprising number of industry members who are required to file operational reports do not file them on time in compliance with federal regulations.
In the USA, nearly 30 people every day are killed due to a driver who is under the influence of alcohol, approximately one an hour. The combined cost of all alcohol-related crashes is a staggering 45 billion dollars. This is a severe problem that needs to be addressed.
A bipartisan bill to add alcohol detection devices in all new cars has been introduced in the Senate. Senator's Tom Udall, a Democrat from New Mexico and Rick Scott, a Republican from Florida co-authored the "RIDE Act" or the Reduce Impaired Driving for Everyone Act.
While Uber’s arrival in some cities has corresponded with lower rates of alcohol-related traffic accidents, new data indicates Uber’s arrival in a city is often also followed by a rise in binge drinking.
Registration is now open for the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) 77th Annual Convention & Exposition, the industry's leading event that brings together wholesalers, suppliers, service providers, importers and exporters under one roof.
Even before women could vote, they were leaders in the effort to curb major social and family problems created by alcohol. Today, the media portrays these women as cartoon characters bent on being moralistic buzz-kills.