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Article: Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD)
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- Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
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STUDENTS AGAINST DESTRUCTIVE DECISIONS (SADD)
In 1981, Robert Anastas, a health educator and hockey coach in Wayland, Massachusetts, stood helplessly by as two of his students died of injuries sustained in two separate alcohol-related traffic crashes. Anastas decided to fight back and developed a fifteen-session high school course on driving while impaired. Rather than a curriculum focusing solely on the effects of alcohol while driving, he taught strategies for preventing driving after drinking, and he emphasized the legal consequences of getting caught. In this sense, the curriculum was a significant departure from traditional driver-education approaches.
Students who took Anastas's ...