Journal Published Online: 01 January 1979
Volume 24, Issue 1

Drugs (Other than or in Addition to Ethyl Alcohol) and Driving Behavior: A Collaborative Study of the California Association of Toxicologists

CODEN: JFSCAS

Abstract

The influence of the consumption of ethyl alcohol on motor vehicle driver behavior is well established [1,2]. Innumerable other psychoactive drugs are now used widely by the populations of developed countries. That these drugs are also used by motor vehicle drivers on occasion has been documented [3] and discussed [4]. The effects of these drugs alone, in combination, or with ethyl alcohol on driver behavior are not fully understood. Approaches that could clarify such effects include prospective experimentation with human volunteers in simulated driving situations, prospective experimental studies with human volunteers in actual driving situations, retrospective toxicological analyses of fatal automobile accident victims in mass statistical studies, reconstruction of fatal automobile accidents, and comparative study of individuals with specific, observed driving behavior in real-life situations who were subsequently determined to be with and without drugs.

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Lundberg, GD
School of Medicine, University of California, Davis
White, JM
, Santa Ana, Calif
Hoffman, KI
University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles
Pages: 9
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Stock #: JFS10810J
ISSN: 0022-1198
DOI: 10.1520/JFS10810J