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A little advanced planning can make your time as a designated driver much more enjoyable. Be sure that the vehicle you will be driving has enough space for everyone in your party. And make sure that everyone chips in for gas money. Before heading to the main event of the evening, grab a bite to eat with your group. It will be good for those who will be drinking to have some food in their systems, and it will also provide a time for you to all enjoy some sober time together.

But if you stick to the same rules every time you volunteer to drive, hopefully a few will stick in their heads. While volunteering to drive is a very noble thing - do you really want to? For important occasions like results day or Christmas, the risk of you feeling left out and having 'just one drink' is much higher. So why put yourself in that position? Club together with your mates and book a big taxi. Most companies have 8 seaters or even bigger, and between that many people it's actually an affordable way to get home.

Being the only person not drinking can be a bit annoying. But if you look at this a different way, there are a lot of perks: Your mates will buy you food because they LOVE you, no really man, honestly Any joke you tell will be hilarious because the average IQ has dropped several points Out of the driving seat, your phone is your friend - capture the beautiful embarrassing moments for blackmail Being the most attractive member of your group is guaranteed by about 10pm Work out a rota If you go out with the same group of friends every Friday night, put the weeks or events into a hat each month and draw lots.

Cited in Voas, R. Drinking and Driving in the U. Congress on Alcohol and Health, June , U. Jones and John M. VI, No. Dearing and E. Skip to content Center for Health Communication. Harvard T.

Center for Health Communication Menu. Search for:. Why did the Designated Driver Campaign succeed? The CHC did not attempt to address the entirety of alcohol use and abuse in American society. Rather, the CHC took a highly complex problem, broke it down into separate, manageable components, and selected one component where there seemed to be a meaningful opportunity to achieve change at the time. The message was not anti-alcohol. The timing was right. Mothers Against Drunken Driving MADD , launched in , had built a strong foundation of public understanding of the drunk driving problem, and successfully advocated for tough laws that saved many lives.

However, media attention to the problem declined sharply by the mids, and annual fatalities had leveled off. Jacqueline Lewis does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

The designated driver DD is a successful public health strategy dating back to the late s. Similar to the DD, the aim of the proposed buddy circle initiative is to challenge norms and promote behaviour change in order to reduce harm. The buddy circle concept, however, expands on that of the designated driver, taking into account other substances and risks — including COVID and social media — in order to build a more comprehensive harm mitigation strategy for the 21st century.

The project involved a partnership with major television networks and Hollywood studios. Over the past 30 years this program has achieved its goals , integrating the DD into our language and culture.



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