Mon 19 Feb 2007
Drinking is a growing problem in US schools. “As many as half of our kids are doing this,” says Reynolds. An estimated 1700 US high-school students died from alcohol poisoning or related accidents in 2005 alone.” - Andy Coghlan, NewScientist.Com, Teenage Drinkers Face Alcohol Tests
Personally, I don’t see a problem with testing out this program. There are arguable flaws with the standard Breathalizer Tests that the police administer. Then again, I grew up in the ‘first generation’ of the M.A.D.D. program. Boy were they good at scare tactics. You know - putting a different crumpled-up/totaled car on the lawn of the high school, in plain sight as you enter the parking lot, every morning leading up to Prom Night.
I think anything that pro-actively attempts to get drunk drivers off the road and doesn’t violates the driver’s rights in any way - is a good thing.


