Abstract
ANYTIME ALL 100 US senators can agree on something, it's news. The problem that's brought them to unanimous agreement: the public health menace of drunken driving. This week, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, MD—who has been pondering the problem for some time—was expected to assign staff to develop a plan through which he and his successors can work with the states and other agencies to cope with the drunken driving menace. Koop has in hand a letter from senators, who call the situation a "national crisis." The one-page letter summarizes some statistics relating to alcohol-related road accidents: Two of five Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related accident at some point in their lives. Two million alcohol-related crashes occur in the United States each year at a cost of at least $10 billion to $15 billion annually. Alcohol is a factor in over half of fatal motor vehicle accidents. Every
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