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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2019

Ethical Acceptability of Reducing the Legal Blood Alcohol Concentration Limit to 0.05.

Stephanie Morain, Emily Largent

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Article in American journal of public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stephanie MorainStephanie Morain is with the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. Emily Largent is with the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Emily LargentStephanie Morain is with the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. Emily Largent is with the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Twenty-nine Americans die in alcohol-impaired driving crashes daily. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report that identified strategies to reduce alcohol-impaired driving deaths. One strategy suggests amending state laws to reduce the legal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limit from 0.08 to 0.05. Although BAC 0.05 laws would likely reduce alcohol-related deaths, they are also controversial. Critics object to these laws because they restrict individual liberty and fail to consider that individuals value social drinking. We explored the ethical acceptability of BAC 0.05 laws. We made an ethical argument in support of BAC 0.05 laws, which include preventing harm to both drinking drivers and to others. We then considered and rejected liberty-based objections to BAC 0.05 laws. We concluded that BAC 0.05 laws are not only ethically defensible but desirable. States and Congress should work to promote them.

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Blood Alcohol ContentAccidents, TrafficAlcohol DrinkingAlcoholic IntoxicationAutomobile DrivingDriving Under the InfluenceHumansUnited StatesBlood Alcohol Content

Identifiers

PMID30789764
PMCPMC6459633
OpenAlexW2915441393

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