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Despite widespread support among newly-legal students, officials from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) have voiced vehement opposition...
...MADD National President Katherine Prescott said in a statement that the law will lead to more alcohol-related car accidents and signals "a huge step backward in our fight against drunk driving and underage drinking...
...with safety, I suggest that they turn their attention to combating drunk driving, not higher speed limits. If we could get the drunks off the road and keep them off, our highway fatality statistics would be a lot less worrisome. Accidents are inevitable, but as Mothers Against Driving Drunk (MADD) reminds us, substance-related crashes are no accidents...
Wechsler contends that the battle against smoking and the campaign against drunk driving have both overcome the vague definition of moderation. The success of Mothers Against Drunk Driving in curbing deaths has been substantial, but MADD was able to overcome the challenges created by misattribution by focusing their campaign on a particularly harmful action and emphasizing the effects drunk driving has had on mother-child relationships. Wechsler's "second hand binge effects," approach has not displayed that kind of specificity or rigor necessary to combat the difficulties posed by the effects of attribution theory on the perceptions and attitudes...
...course, such logic is most unwelcome to MADD, a modern-day reincarnation of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. To them, the issue is a simple moral equation; alcohol is bad, and cracking down on it can't help but be good...