Preventing Drunk Driving shows what is being done today, in research and practice, to reduce impaired driving and the fatalities and injuries it produces and to curtail the spread of this tragic social epidemic. In this informative book, you ll discover how current research and prevention programs are increasing the success of designated driver programs. You ll also find out how communities, friends, and experts are making drinkers aware of their levels of intoxication and discouraging them from driving to keep the roads safer. You ll see when intervention works, when it doesn t, and how you...

Program Implementation in Preventive Trials shows you how you can take a more active part in program evaluation and how you can direct existing programs toward new horizons of more effective service. In this concise, focused look at community-based psychology and its operative programs, you ll see how and why community programs should be comprehensively evaluated. You ll see the importance of understanding how interventions were conducted before making conclusions about a program s impact, and you ll discover why there s an ever-widening gap between what is planned and what actually gets...