Drugs and Driving (eBook)

Herbert Moskowitz (Herausgeber)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
84 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4831-8784-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Drugs and Driving is a compendium of papers from a symposium of the same title presented at the U.S. Transportation Research Board. This collection reviews the effects of five classes of drugs on driving (amphetamines, tranquilizers, barbiturates, narcotics, cannabis), the other studies being made on drugs and driving, as well as some countermeasure programs against drunk driving. The papers report that amphetamines can induce risky driving behavior, tranquilizers can increase traffic accident risks, barbiturates can degrade driving skills especially when the drug is combined with alcohol, while marijuana use can impair important driving skills. Another paper evaluates drug use and driving risk among high school students in Toronto: results show that the total effect of infrequent use of drugs on accidents is small compared to alcohol use. A study of out-patients in Finland notes that the combined used of alcohol and drugs tend to increase accident frequency. One paper refutes that Alcohol Safety Action Programs in the United States are ineffective. This collection can be helpful for sociologist, psychologists, psychiatrists, traffic safety officers, and heads of urban safety and traffic divisions.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Drugs and Driving 2
Copyright Page 3
Table of Contents 4
CHAPTER 1. DRUGS AND DRIVING 6
INTRODUCTION 6
CHAPTER 2. INFLUENCE OF NARCOTIC DRUGS ON HIGHWAY SAFETY! 8
REFERENCES 11
CHAPTER 3. AMPHETAMINES AND DRIVING BEHAVIOR 14
BACKGROUND 14
LABORATORY FINDINGS 15
AMPHETAMINE ABUSERS 16
AMPHETAMINES AND ALCOHOL 16
REFERENCES 17
CHAPTER 4. TRANQUILIZERS AND DRIVING 20
LABORATORY STUDIES 21
COMBINED EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL AND TRANQUILIZERS 22
COUNTERMEASURES TO DIMINISH THE TRAFFIC RISKS CAUSED BY TRANQUILIZERS 23
REFERENCES 24
CHAPTER 5. MARIHUANA AND DRIVING 26
REFERENCES 30
CHAPTER 6. BARBITURATES AND DRIVING 32
REFERENCES 35
CHAPTER 7. DRUG USE AND DRIVING RISK AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS 38
METHOD 38
RESULTS 39
DISCUSSION 42
REFERENCES 42
CHAPTER 8. TRAFFIC ACCIDENT RATES AMONG FINNISH OUT-PATIENTS 44
INTRODUCTION 44
MATERIAL AND METHODS 44
RESULTS 45
REFERENCES 49
CHAPTER 9. MARIHUANA: EFFECTS ON SIMULATED DRIVING PERFORMANCE 50
METHOD 51
DISCUSSION 54
REFERENCES 55
CHAPTER 10. STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF "ALCOHOL SAFETY ACTION PROJECTS" 56
1. INTRODUCTION 56
2. METHODOLOGY 56
3. RESULTS 59
4. DISCUSSION 62
REFERENCES 64
APPENDIX A 64
APPENDIX B 66
APPENDIX C 71
CHAPTER 11. A CRITIQUE OF THE PAPER "STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ALCOHOL SAFETY ACTION" 72
INTRODUCTION 72
A. COMPLETENESS OF STUDY 72
B. SENSITIVITY OF STUDY 73
C. SELECTION OF COMPARISON AREAS 73
D. INTREPRETATION OF RESULTS 74
REFERENCES 75
APPENDIX 1 75
APPENDIX 2 77
APPENDIX 3 80
APPENDIX 4 82
FORTHCOMING EVENT 84

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Pharmakologie / Toxikologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bauwesen
• ISBN-10: 1-4831-8784-5 / 1483187845
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4831-8784-6 / 9781483187846