#TALES OF HISTERA DRIVERS#

Studies showed that the net reduction in crashes, deaths, serious injuries and financial savings was huge.ДЄs a young doctor, I quickly became converted to public health harm reduction interventions when shown a scale model of a new wing being constructed at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne in 1971.

#TALES OF HISTERA DRIVERS#

Seat belt critics argued that drivers would inevitably compensate for their increased safety by just driving faster and more recklessly. Concerns about the high proportion of road crashes due to drunk driving and the difficulties of reducing such deaths prompted the introduction of this legislation. In 1970, the Victorian parliament made the wearing of seat belts compulsory for drivers and front-seat passengers, the first such legislation in the world. Of course energetic efforts to reduce the frequency and severity of public drunkenness still continued. The idea behind this slogan was, for example, separating drunken pedestrians from speeding traffic.

They knew that, like the poor, some hopelessly intoxicated people in public places would always be with us. Alcohol policy wonks in the 1970s used to speak of вЂњmaking the world safe for drunksвЂќ. But long before there was harm reduction for illicit drugs, there was already harm reduction for alcohol. Harm reduction is usually associated with illicit drugs.

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