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Psychoactive substances in seriously injured drivers in Denmark
K. Wiese Simonsen,Anni Steentoft,Inger Marie Bernhoft,Tove Hels,Brian Schou Rasmussen,Kristian Linnet +5 more
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Ethanol was the most frequently identified compound exceeding the legal limit, which is 0.53g/l in Denmark, and young men (median age 31 years) were over-represented among injured drivers who violated Danish law for alcohol and drugs.About:
This article is published in Forensic Science International.The article was published on 2013-01-10. It has received 37 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Driving under the influence & Poison control.read more
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Abbreviated injury scale unification : The case for a unified injury system for global use
TL;DR: Mango et al. as discussed by the authors compared five anatomic severity systems and two impairment systems in terms of purpose, code structure, and use and discussed the reasons for the differences between these systems.
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Risk of severe driver injury by driving with psychoactive substances.
TL;DR: Alcohol still poses the largest problem in terms of driver risk of getting injured among psychoactive substances, but there was a decrease in the risk of severe driver injury with increasing age.
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Prevalence of alcohol and drug use in injured British Columbia drivers.
Jeffrey R. Brubacher,Herbert Chan,Walter Martz,William E. Schreiber,Mark Asbridge,Jeffrey Eppler,Adam Lund,Scott Macdonald,Olaf H. Drummer,Roy Purssell,Gary Andolfatto,Robert E. Mann,Rollin Brant +12 more
TL;DR: Alcohol, cannabis and a broad range of other impairing drugs are commonly detected in injured drivers and more work is needed to understand the role of medications in causing crashes to guide driver education programmes and improve public safety.
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Alcohol and drugs use among drivers injured in road accidents in Campania (Italy): A 8-years retrospective analysis.
TL;DR: An improvement of the protocols currently applied in Italy for the assessment of DUI or DUID crimes is needed and the confirmation analysis on blood should be considered mandatory.
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The involvement of drugs in drivers of motor vehicles killed in australian road traffic crashes
Olaf H. Drummer,Jim Gerostamoulos,Helen P Batziris,M-L Chu,John R. M. Caplehorn,Michael D. Robertson,Philip Swann +6 more
TL;DR: There were non-significant, weakly positive associations of opiates and benzodiazepines with culpability, and drivers showing the highest culpability rates were in the under 25 and over 65 age groups.
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Psychoactive substance use and the risk of motor vehicle accidents
Kris L. L. Movig,M. P. M. Mathijssen,P.h.a. Nagel,T. van Egmond,J. De Gier,Hubert G. M. Leufkens,Antoine C. G. Egberts +6 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that drug use, especially alcohol, benzodiazepines and multiple drug use and drug-alcohol combinations, among vehicle drivers increases the risk for a road trauma accident requiring hospitalisation.
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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
TL;DR: 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.
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Simultaneous Screening and Quantification of 29 Drugs of Abuse in Oral Fluid by Solid-Phase Extraction and Ultraperformance LC-MS/MS
TL;DR: An ultra performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS) method makes it possible to detect all 29 analytes in 1 chromatographic run, including Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol and benzoylecgonine, which previously have been difficult to incorporate into multicomponent methods.
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Drug and alcohol use among drivers admitted to a Level-1 trauma center.
J. Michael Walsh,Ron Flegel,Randolph Atkins,Leo Cangianelli,Carnell Cooper,Christopher Welsh,Timothy J. Kerns +6 more
TL;DR: Within the total MVC patient pool, passenger drug/alcohol use was equivalent to the driver population; however, injured pedestrians had higher rates of alcohol only than other MVC victims, and there were no significant differences in drug and alcohol use between MVCs and trauma admissions of other causes.