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UGA study finds alarming rate of drinking and driving among rural middle schoolers

Researchers, whose results appear in the November issue of the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention, surveyed 290 middle school students in the Mississippi Delta and found that 17 percent had driven an automobile after drinking.

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