Our mission is to lead the efforts to eliminate drunk driving.
For over 30 years, Responsibility.org has been dedicated to eliminating drunk driving. Since 1991, our tireless efforts, collaboration, and vigilance have resulted in more than 100,000 lives being saved on our nation’s roadways. It takes all of us to stop impaired driving, and through the years we have worked tirelessly to prevent impaired driving and empower adults of legal drinking age who choose to drink to make responsible alcohol choices. Going out? If alcohol is involved, plan for your own safety and the safety of your friends by arranging in advance to use ride share services, designate a driver, or make other arrangements to get to and from your gathering. Be a responsible host by never serving anyone under the legal drinking age of 21, provide water and drink choices that do not include alcohol, having food available, and making sure everyone has a safe ride home. Remember, your responsible choices could save your life and the lives of those you care about.
In collaboration with our many partners, we have created critical and accessible resources and programs to support professionals engaged in all aspects of the DUI system. This system is comprised of members of the traffic safety field working together to eliminate impaired driving such as policymakers, law enforcement, practitioners, judges, and treatment professionals. These partnerships have allowed us to reach new audiences to further our missions and save lives.
Over the years we’ve been able to:
- Work with policymakers to strengthen state and federal drunk and drug-impaired driving laws.
- Provide data, prevention tools, advanced technology targeting recidivism, and resources for professionals (including policymakers) to support their efforts to eliminate impaired driving.
- Champion efforts and policies to strengthen the effective use of ignition interlock devices for all impaired drivers. Many states have passed strong all-offender laws, or at a minimum, required high-BAC repeat offenders to install ignition interlocks, and have passed laws that dictate when ignition interlocks may be removed from drunk driving offenders’ vehicles. We continue to focus on improving the implementation of programs and strengthening interlock program infrastructure.
- Enhance the training, detection, prosecution, toxicological testing, of impaired drivers.
- Promote screening and assessments of impaired drivers to identify substance abuse and mental health disorders in order to prevent recidivism.
To be successful in our mission to eliminate impaired driving, educating the public and working with experts at every level of the DUI system is critical. Using the resources below, learn more about DUI prevention and countermeasures, what to do about repeat offenders, multiple impairing substance-impaired driving, and access DUI data for each state.