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| June 7: Is it possible to get home safely after drinking alcohol and to wake up with your own car parked on your driveway? Could this service be available for absolutely no cost to the person being driven home? The most recent recipient of our signature Platinum Key of Life Award makes this possible 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Throughout the Los Angeles area, Scooterpatrol makes this possible. |
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Anthony Panzica II, the President of Scooterpatrol, has invigorated a base of volunteers who each work to make sure that people have a safe and completely convenient method for protecting the safety of themselves, their friends, and their fellow community members by choosing not to drive drunk. In addition many restaurants, bars and taverns now will call Scooterpatrol on behalf of patrons who might otherwise make the decision to drive drunk. It would be a fair assessment that there is no group of volunteers doing more to fight drunk driving on a daily basis than Scooterpatrol. We wish them continued success as they grow and hope that someday the service they provide will be available wherever people live and drive. Scooterpatrol celebrates its 2nd anniversary this May and we are proud to feature them on the DFDD website. |
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| March 18: Doctors for Designated
Driving is proud to announce the latest recipient of our Platinum
Key of Life Award, FestUSA,
L.L.C. FestUSA brings spirits events to cities across the
country. In addition to featuring the world's finest distilled spirits
makers, FestUSA promotes designated driver use and responsible
decision-making. "We are happy to promote designated driver
use at our events because we believe that a smooth finish requires
smart planning" says Stephen Gilberg, FesUSA CEO. The
next Spirits Festival will be held April 19th overlooking
New York's Grand Central Station. Visit the FestUSA
website to learn more. |
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| March 7: Read
the article about Doctors for Designated Driving in the current
issue of The New Physician Magazine. The New Physician Magazine
is a national publication geared towards doctors-in-training. Special
thanks to Pete Thomson who wrote the article. |
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| February 9: Read a editorial
about Doctors for Designated Driving, and the need for physician
activism to prevent drunk driving, from the BASIS
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The journal is published by the Division on Addictions
of Harvard Medical School and The Cambridge Health Alliance. We are
extremely proud that faculty from such a prestigious medical center
have chosen to dedicate an editorial to the cause of preventing drunk
driving and appreciate their positive review of Doctors for Designated
Driving.
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| January 27: Doctors for Designated
Driving is proud to announce the most recent recipient of the Platinum
Key of Life Award, NightRiders
Inc. Based in Colorado, NightRiders offers an innovative
and inexpensive professional designated driver solution to avoid
driving under the influence. The NightRiders Plan allows you to
wake up with your own car securely parked outside your home. How?
When you call them, a NightRiders driver arrives at your location
on a collapsible motor scooter. The driver places this scooter in
the trunk of your car and drives you home. Once you arrive home,
the driver unfolds the scooter and is off to assist another customer.
NightRiders saves lives and provides peace of mind for their customers
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They have been featured
in Time Magazine, honored on the floor of the US Congress, praised by
The Colorado State Patrol and deemed a Corporate Leader by the National
Commission Against Drunk Driving. The organization has been received well
by both customers and the hospitality community.
Many establishments throughout Colorado advertise their service and the
company is seeing increased demand every weekend. NightRiders service
can be used whether you are out at a restaurant or bar, traveling home
from a private party, or even at a friend's home. Doctors for Designated
Driving looks forward to the day when NightRiders will offer their service
throughout the country. We encourage you to visit their website to learn
more about them. When we visit Colorado, we know who our designated driver
will be, NightRiders Inc. |
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| January 12:
Doctors for Designated Driving is proud to announce our first retail store
recipient, The Brown Jug of Alaska, of the Platinum Key of Life
Award for fighting drunk driving through the promotion of designated
driving. Brown Jug’s program, led by Ed O’Neill and O.C.
Madden III, exemplify corporate citizenship, as well as the spirit
of partnering for safety that Doctors for Designated Driving strives to
highlight and promote. |
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| January 6:
Now that Doctors for Designated Driving is in the process of completing
all of the necessary paper work for our incorporation, it is important
to recognize the lawyer and law firm, without which, Doctors for Designated
Driving would not exist. Ms. Joana Rosensaft, Associate of Kramer
Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, has worked tireless hours volunteering
her legal expertise to assist DFDD. In addition to her pro bono work on
behalf of Doctors for Designated Driving, Ms. Rosensaft has participated
in the Holocaust Victims Assets Litigation Project. Ms. Rosensaft received
her Law Degree from the University of Pennsylvania where she was a member
of the Law Review and was admitted to the New York Bar in 2004. Kramer
Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP is a world-class, full-service law firm
with offices in New York and Paris. Thank you very much to Ms. Rosensaft
and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP |
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| December 14: Read
the article on designated driver use by Howard Forman published
in Facts and Fears Magazine published by the American Council
on Science and Health. The American Council on Science and Health
(ACSH) is a consumer education consortium concerned with issues
related to food, nutrition, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, lifestyle,
the environment and health. The nucleus of ACSH is a board of 350
physicians, scientists and policy advisors. Special thanks to Dr.
Ruth Kava and Mr. Todd Seavey of the ACSH for their help
in editing the article. |
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| December 7:
Doctors for Designated Driving is proud to be featured in the latest issue
of the Columbia
College Today. The article highlights the organization's strong
and proud connection to Columbia University. Howard Forman, Aileen
Love and Dan Machleder, and Kate Devine all graduated from Columbia College.
Special Thanks to Shira Boss-Bicak who wrote the story. |
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| December 6:
The American Medical Association Medical Student Section unanimously endorsed
the founding principles of Doctors for Designated Driving at their interim
meeting in Atlanta, GA. The American Medical Association is the largest
organization of medical students in the country. They will be advocating
for endorsement of designated driver promotion by the entire American
Medical Association this June. |
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| November 4: The
Medical Society of the State of New York, representing approximately
30,000 practicing physicians in New York State, voted today to endorse
the founding principles of Doctors for Designated Driving. MSSNY also
voted to use their “credible voice” to work with the hospitality
industry to create a safer New York. DFDD wishes to thank the MSSNY leadership
for making the issue of drunk driving prevention a high priority issue
and looks forward working side-by-side with them to fight for the health
and well being of all New Yorkers. It is our hope that all state medical
societies will follow the lead of MSSNY in adopting designated driver
use promotion as policy. |
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| November 1:
The Bronx County Medical Society, founded in 1914, recently became the
first county Medical Society to endorse the founding principles of Doctors
for Designated Driving. Visit their site for membership benefits and information:
http://www.bronxdocs.org. DFDD expresses great gratitude to all the
members of the Bronx County Medical Society for their support in our efforts
to make our community safer from drunk driving. We hope that other county
and state medical societies will follow their lead. |
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| October 25:
Congressman Peter Deutsch, who represents the 20th Congressional District
of Florida, became the latest elected official to endorse Doctors for
Designated Driving. DFDD can now proudly announce that we have bi-partisan
support in the US House of Representatives. Please read the letter he
recently sent to the DFDD office, expressing his support for our mission
of bringing the medical and hospitality communities side-by-side to fight
drunk driving. Special thanks to Tessa Valk, Legislative Correspondent
of Congressman Deutsch who brought our mission to the attention of Congressman
Deutsch. |
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| October
22: Doctors for Designated Driving
is proud to announce a new partner in the fight against drunk driving,
ABQFindIt.com, the leading web guide to the city of Albuquerque.
In addition to promoting Doctors for Designated Driving’s Platinum
Key of Life Award within the hospitality and medical communities
of Albuquerque, ABQFindIt.com will be featuring the DFDD logo on
their well-known city maps so that when people are planning a night
out on the town, they will be reminded to make sure it is not only
fun, but also safe. |
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| October 19:
Diane Helentjaris, MD, President of the American Medical Women’s
Association is the latest physician to sign on to endorse Doctors for
Designated Driving’s founding principles. Dr. Helentjaris also currently
serves as Health Director of the Lord Fairfax Health District in Virginia.
AMWA is the national organization of women physicians and medical students
dedicated to meeting the educational needs of all physicians regarding
women’s health. We encourage all eligible medical professionals to
join Dr. Helentjaris in endorsing DFDD
and to join
AMWA to ensure that health needs of all women are best served. |
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| October 2:
Doctors for Designated Driving is proud to announce the addition of Sergeant
Edward D. Mullins, member of the New York City Police Department since
1982 and President of the Sergeants
Benevolent Association, to our Board of Directors. "Adding a
law enforcement leader held in such high regard by his colleagues from
the country's most respected revered police force is a great accomplishment
for our organization. I know that Sergeant Mullins will allow Doctors
for Designated Driving to save more lives and prevent more harm in less
time that we could have possibly imagined just months earlier." |
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| September 23: The biggest
honor in Doctors for Designated Driving’s short history was bestowed
by Congressman Ander Crenshaw in remarks he made on the floor of
the United States House of Representatives. In his remarks, Congressman
Crenshaw focused on DFDD’s desire to bring the medical community
and the hospitality community together to make America safer through promotion
of Designated Driver use. Congressman Crenshaw also highlights the ability
for Designated Drivers to ensure that all of their passengers are wearing
seat belts. We wish to express our deep gratitude to Congressman Crenshaw
and invite you to read the complete
text of his remarks from the Congressional Record. |
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| September 13: The National
Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University is the
latest organization to run the story about DFDD from the Bronx Times on
their website. Founded in 1992 by former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare Joseph A. Califano, Jr., CASA has assembled an interdisciplinary
staff of more than 70 professionals, including four lawyers, 16 Doctorates,
and 14 individuals with Master's degrees. Their experience and expertise
are in the fields of substance abuse and addiction, communications, criminology,
education, epidemiology, government, journalism, law, psychology, public
administration, public health, public policy, social work, sociology and
statistics. |
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| September 12:
Doctors for Designated Driving is proud to be featured in a news story
on the Mothers Against Drunk Driving Website. MADD carried
the Bronx Times Article which has been featured on many advocacy websites
around the country. MADD is the brand-name of drunk driving prevention
organizations, and we invite all people to visit their website for more
information on preventing drunk driving, as well as ways to help the victims
of this preventable public safety threat. MADD membership is free and
open to all individuals who are interested in preventing drunk driving. |
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| September 9: We would like
to thank the FACE program for choosing to publish the article from the
Bronx Times, featuring an interview with DFDD Vice-President Arkady Broder,
in their weekly newsletter. We hope that DFDD and FACE will be able to
find productive ways to work together to make America safe. Read
the Article on FACE’s website and see some of the products they
sell to prevent high-risk drinking. |
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| September 8: For adults
who choose to consume alcohol, DFDD recommends that it solely be done
in moderation. We feel that moderation is best defined by the USDA in
their 2000
Dietary Guidelines. |
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| September 6: Watch News
Channel 12's story about Doctors for Designated Driving. This was the
lead story on the Sunday September 5 newscast. Special thanks to 12's
Sheri Sagan who spent a great deal of time putting together this story
for her network. |
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| September 5: The official
newsletter of the New York State Restaurant Association Long island Chapter
features a supportive column by their President, and an article informing
restaurant owners about Doctors for Designated Driving’s Platinum
Key of Life Award. President Francis D’Orazi writes that in return
for being a Platinum Partner, "restaurants will be rewarded with
many advertising and marketing strategies free of cost." We applaud
the NYSRA-LI for working to spread the word that DFDD is simultaneously
pro-responsibility, pro-safety, and pro-hospitality. We also congratulate
the NYSRA on passing recent legislation to prevent drunk driving in New
York State. Special thanks to Claudia Bruno at the NYSRA-LI for helping
DFDD build relationships within Long Island. |
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| September 4: Doctors for
Designated Driving is featured on Join Together’s Webpage and e-newsletter.
Join Together, founded in 1991, supports community-based efforts to reduce,
prevent, and treat substance abuse across the nation. Arkady Broder, Senior
Vice-President "With endorsers from over 20 states and now attention
from Join Together, I think we can see Doctors for Designated Driving
grow from the minds of a few medical students to an organization making
our nation safe from drunk-driving". |
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| September 3: Richard Izquierdo,
M.D., founder of the 60 physician non-profit Urban Health Plan Practice
and a leading member of the Bronx County Medical Society, attends the
Doctors for Designated Driving news conference. At the news conference
Dr. Izquierdo announces "I personally endorse the founding principles
of Doctors for Designated Driving and hope that they will be successful
in their mission of promoting the use of designated drivers by adults
who choose to drink." It is our hope that Dr. Izquierdo will be the
first of many prominent physicians who take time out of their busy schedule
to publicly endorse our mission. Please learn about the great work Dr.
Izquierdo does here in The Bronx by visiting www.urbanhealthplan.org |
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| August 30: Read the interview
with Arkady Broder in the Bronx Times Reporter Magazine. Mr. Broder is
the senior vice-president of DFDD and responsible
for all of our partner restaurants in The Bronx. |
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| August 24:
This Friday join DFDD at City Island’s Bambu Bar and Grill at
1:00 PM for a celebration to mark their joining forces with DFDD to
make the Bronx safer. Assemblyman Jeff Klein will be on hand to present
Arkady Broder a Bronx resident since immigrating to the United States,
with a certificate of merit for his service to the borough. Mr. Broder
is Senior Vice-President of DFDD and is responsible for all of the Bronx
restaurant partnerships we have. Come to Bambu, located at 500 City
Island Avenue and enjoy free food, free non-alcoholic drinks for designated
drivers, and great deals on all other bar items. |
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