Research Papers
The MADD Canada public policy team compiled this collection of links and articles to inform the public on current and available research respecting the most important impaired driving issues facing Canadians today.
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The Latest Statistics
- Alcohol, Trauma and Impaired Driving - Updated November 2009
- The Magnitude of the Alcohol/Drug-Related Crash Problem in Canada - Revised April 2008
- More statistics
A Lower BAC
- The BACs of Dead, Alcohol-Positive Drivers in Canada from 1987 – 2008
- The ABCs of BAC
- The Case for a 0.05% Criminal Code BAC Limit
- Calculating BACs For Dummies: The Real-World Significance of Canada's 0.08% Criminal BAC Limit for Driving
- BAC to the Future - Modernizing the Criminal Drinking-Driving Threshold
- Effects of a Reduced Alcohol Limit for Driving
- "The Effectiveness of Reducing Illegal Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) Limits for Driving", PIRE Research - September 2003
- The Tooth Fairy
- The BACs of Dead, Alcohol-Positive Drivers in Canada from 1987 to 1999: What Do The Numbers Tell Us?
- Vast majority of Canadians want effective impaired driving laws and appropriate sentences
- Blood Alcohol Concentration Limits Worldwide, International Center for Alcohol Policies
Young Drivers and Drugs and Alcohol Impairment
- Youth and Impaired Driving in Canada : Opportunities for Progress
- The Case for a Provincial 0.00% BAC Limit for All Drivers Under the Age of 21
- Alcohol Policy and Young People, The Globe (2004)
- Statistics Relating to Impaired Driving and Youth from MADD US
- Reasons for the reduction in young alcohol-impaired drivers. From the International Conference on Drugs and Traffic Safety (Montreal)
- Zero blood alcohol concentration limits for drivers under 21: lessons from Canada
Drug Impaired Driving
- Collisions of alcohol, cannabis and cocaine abuse clients before and after treatment. From the International Conference on Drugs and Traffic Safety (Montreal)
- Drinking, cannabis use and driving among Ontario students. Canadian Medical Association Journal (2003)
- Alcohol, Trauma and Impaired Driving (PDF) - Updated February 2006
- MADD Canada supports Federal Government's Violent Crime Bill (drug impaired driving legislation)
- NEW MEASURES TO STRENGTHEN ENFORCEMENT OF DRUG-IMPAIRED DRIVING - Justice Canada
- SENATE OF CANADA FINAL REPORT: CANNABIS: OUR POSITION FOR A CANADIAN PUBLIC POLICY
- 'If you're high, you can't drive' - MADD Canada's awareness campaign against drug impaired driving
Suspended Drivers
- Trends In First Time One-Year Licence Suspensions: Ontario (1991 - 2001) - May 2004
- Fatal and Injury Crashes among Unlicensed Drivers in Ontario: 1996 - 2003 MAY 2007
- Trends in First-Time Disqualifications in Saskatchewan - April 2006
- Driving While Disqualified in Saskatchewan - July 2006
Police Enforcement
- Random Breath Testing (RBT): A Review of the Evidence
- Random Breath Testing – MADD Canada’s Response to Charter Concerns
- Impaired Driving Survey for Transport Canada/MADD Canada - Final Report
- Impaired Driving and Other Traffic Offences - 2002, Juristat
- Proportion of injured alcohol-impaired drivers subsequently convicted of an impaired driving criminal code offence in British Columbia
Federal Policies
- Enforcing Impaired Driving Laws Against Hospitalized Drivers
- Reforming the Federal Impaired Driving Legislation: Next Steps - Feb. 2009 (Aussi disponible en français)
- MADD Canada's Mother's Report: Federal Priorities for New Impaired Driving Legislation (2006)
- Taking Back Our Roads
- MADD Canada supports Federal Government's Violent Crime Bill (drug impaired driving legislation)
- C-2 Federal Legislation Policy Background, Justice Canada (including drug impaired driving)
- Canada's Strategy to Reduce Impaired Driving Experience to Date and Future Aspirations, CCMTA presentation to the International Conference on Drugs and Traffic Safety (Montreal)
- Impaired Driving Workshop Proceedings May 2001 - CCMTA summary presentation
Provincial Policies
- MADD Canada Model 2009
- Rating The Provinces: The 2009 Report Card
- Rating The Provinces: The 2006 Report Card
- See the latest on MADD Canada's on-going Rating the Provinces policy
- Estimating the Presence of Alcohol and Drug Impairment in Traffic Crashes and their Costs to Canadians: 1999 to 2006 (Revised February 2009 -- contains provincial breakdowns)
- Ontario's administrative licence suspension (ALS) program
Effective Technologies (e.g. - ignition interlocks)
- The Alberta Interlock Program: the evaluation of a province-wide program on DUI recidivism
- Comparative and joint prediction of DUI recidivism from alcohol ignition interlock and driver records
- California department of justice evidential portable alcohol system (EPAS), From the International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (Stockholm)
- Technology Partnership for Preventing Deaths and Injuries on Canadian Road
- Rating the Provinces and Territories on Ignition Interlock Programs: The 2008 Report Card
- Elements of a Model Ignition Interlock Program
MADD Canada's Effectiveness
- Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD): The First 25 Years
- Analysis of Lives Saved due to Reduction in Alcohol Related Fatal Crashes For the Years 1982 through to 2006: 30,589 (Revised April 2008)
Impact of Privatization
- Alcohol Retail Monopolies and Privatization of Retail Sales in Ontario - May 2010
- Provincial Liquor Boards: Meeting the Best Interest of Canadians - May 2011
