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Comparison of the prevalence of alcohol, cannabis and other drugs between 900 injured drivers and 900 control subjects: results of a French collaborative study.
Patrick Mura,Pascal Kintz,Bertrand Ludes,Jean-Michel Gaulier,P. Marquet,Sophie Martin-Dupont M.D.,Françoise Vincent,A. Kaddour,J.P. Goulle,Jean Nouveau,Mustapha Moulsma,S. Tilhet-Coartet,O. Pourrat +12 more
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A higher prevalence of opiates, alcohol, cannabinoids and the combination of these last two compounds in blood samples from drivers involved in road accidents than in those from controls, which suggests a causal role for these compounds in road crashes.About:
This article is published in Forensic Science International.The article was published on 2003-04-23. It has received 322 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Poison control.read more
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Adverse health effects of non-medical cannabis use
Wayne Hall,Louisa Degenhardt +1 more
TL;DR: The most probable adverse effects include a dependence syndrome, increased risk of motor vehicle crashes, impaired respiratory function, cardiovascular disease, and adverse effects of regular use on adolescent psychosocial development and mental health.
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Acute cannabis consumption and motor vehicle collision risk: systematic review of observational studies and meta-analysis
TL;DR: Acute cannabis consumption is associated with an increased risk of a motor vehicle crash, especially for fatal collisions, and could be used as the basis for campaigns against drug impaired driving, developing regional or national policies to control acute drug use while driving, and raising public awareness.
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Dose related risk of motor vehicle crashes after cannabis use
TL;DR: Combined use of THC and alcohol produced severe impairment of cognitive, psychomotor, and actual driving performance in experimental studies and sharply increased the crash risk in epidemiological analyses, suggesting that recent use of cannabis may increase crash risk, whereas past use of Cannabis does not.
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What has research over the past two decades revealed about the adverse health effects of recreational cannabis use
TL;DR: The epidemiological literature in the past 20 years shows that cannabis use increases the risk of accidents and can produce dependence, and that there are consistent associations between regular cannabis use and poor psychosocial outcomes and mental health in adulthood.
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The more you drink, the harder you fall: A systematic review and meta-analysis of how acute alcohol consumption and injury or collision risk increase together
Bruce Taylor,Hyacinth Irving,Fotis Kanteres,Robin Room,Robin Room,Guilherme Borges,Cheryl J. Cherpitel,Thomas K. Greenfield,Jürgen Rehm +8 more
TL;DR: No level of consumption is safe when driving and less than 2 drinks per occasion should be encouraged to reduce the risk of injury, and efforts to reduce drinking both on an individual level and a population level are important.
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The prevalence of alcohol, cannabinoids, benzodiazepines and stimulants amongst injured drivers and their role in driver culpability: part ii: the relationship between drug prevalence and drug concentration, and driver culpability.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between the prevalence and concentration of drugs and the culpability of the driver using an objective method for assessing culpability, and found a significant concentration-dependent relationship between alcohol and culpability: as blood alcohol concentration increased, so did the percentage of culpable drivers.
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Acute and Residual Effects of Marijuana in Humans
TL;DR: Although robust acute effects of marijuana were found on subjective and physiological measures, and on smooth pursuit eye tracking performance, no effects were evident the day following administration, indicating that the residual effects of smoking a single marijuana cigarette are minimal.
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Sweat Testing in Opioid Users with a Sweat Patch
TL;DR: It was concluded that sweat testing appears to offer the advantage of being a relatively noninvasive means of obtaining a cumulative estimate of drug exposure over the period of a week, and this new technology may find useful applications in the treatment and monitoring of substance abusers, as the patch provides a long-term continuous monitor ofdrug exposure or noncompliance.
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Effect of cannabis use on cognitive functions and driving ability.
Ilse Kurzthaler,Martina Hummer,Carl Miller,Barbara Sperner-Unterweger,Verena Günther,H. Wechdorn,Hans-Jürgen Battista,W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker +7 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that perceptual motor speed and accuracy, 2 very important parameters of driving ability, seem to be impaired immediately after cannabis consumption.
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Behavioral pharmacokinetics of marijuana
TL;DR: The covariation between phamacodynamics of performance and pharmacokinetics of THC in plasma was investigated and a significant linear correlation was found between tracking errors under divided attention and THC plasma levels over 5–25 ng/ml for approximately 2 h after smoking.