The NASID Conference brings experts together to continue the strategic framework needed to fully comprehend and end impaired driving.
Washington, D.C. – Drunk and impaired driving deaths are 100% preventable, and traffic safety advocates from across the nation work together each day to find solutions that can save lives. This week, the National Alliance to Stop Impaired Driving (NASID), a coalition established and led by Responsibility.org, will host a conference focused on multi-substance impaired driving prevention in Arlington, VA, to further develop a strategic framework for preventing and eliminating all forms of impaired driving. The expanded legalization and decriminalization of cannabis in addition to greater use of prescription and over-the-counter medications, an ongoing opioid epidemic, and continued challenges with alcohol-impaired driving result in dangerous and challenging road risks which account for nearly one-third of total traffic fatalities.
The NASID conference will convene the nation’s top experts to examine the challenges and complexities of multiple substance impaired driving and continue building a pathway for better understanding of ways to detect, prosecute, and ultimately eliminate the needless loss of lives that plague US roadways. Participants will engage in discussions about advanced technology to detect and prevent impaired driving, legislative and advocacy best practices, public awareness campaigns, standardization of detection protocols and more.
“Each of us understands that there are significant challenges in making our roads safer for our communities, friends, and family,” said Darrin Grondel Senior Vice President of Traffic Safety at Responsibility.org and Director of NASID. “We need the expertise of each attendee and expert involved in the NASID Conference to continue to work together to tackle the alarming drunk, drugged, and impaired driving traffic fatalities that result in too many deaths on our roads each year.”
Despite the higher fatality risks associated with multiple substance impaired driving, it is an underreported problem, and leading experts and officials continue to work on ways to gain complete and accurate information, data, education, and training to recognize, treat, and prevent it. Convening at the NASID conference allows this knowledge to be shared amongst peers and action to be strategized and put into action.
“No one should have to share the road with a driver who is drunk or impaired,” said Leslie Kimball, Executive Director of Responsibility.org. “We established NASID to address this growing issue of multi-substance impaired driving to make sure that people arrive safely to their destinations and needless tragedy is eliminated. I’m proud of this work on both a personal and a professional level.”
The National Alliance to Stop Impaired Driving Conference begins Monday, November 18, at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel in Arlington and runs through Wednesday, November 20. For more information or to register to attend the sessions, please visit www.nasid.org/conference or contact Katie Beaumont at [email protected].
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About NASID
The National Alliance to Stop Impaired Driving is a coalition established and led by Responsibility.org to eliminate all forms of impaired driving, especially multiple substance impaired driving, through effective and proven measures such as DUI system reform, DUI detection, and improved use of data and technology. To learn more visit NASID.org.
About Responsibility.org
Responsibility.org is a national not-for-profit that aims to eliminate drunk driving and work with others to end all impaired driving, eliminate underage drinking, and empower adults to make a lifetime of responsible alcohol choices. Responsibility.org is funded by the following distillers: Bacardi USA, Inc.; Brown-Forman; Campari Group; Constellation Brands; DIAGEO; Edrington, Hotaling & Co.; Mast-Jägermeister US, Inc.; Moët Hennessy USA; Ole Smoky, LLC; Pernod Ricard USA; Suntory Global Spirits; and William Grant & Sons. Since 1991, Responsibility.org has transformed countless lives through programs that bring individuals, families, and communities together to inspire a lifetime of responsible alcohol choices. To learn more, please visit www.Responsibility.org.
