Citation

Hingson R. Transp. Res. Circular 2006; (E-C096): 47-50.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, U.S. National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board)

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Abstract

The large numbers of persons who report driving after drinking and driving after drug use indicate it is important to study whether driving after drug use in the absence of alcohol increases traffic crash risk and whether driving after drug use further increases the already clearly established risks of driving after drinking alcohol. Evidence will need to be triangulated from a variety of different types of studies: experimental laboratory studies, road course and driver simulation studies, self report surveys and observational roadside surveys that use breath and blood tests and/or saliva tests as well as case/control studies that compare drivers in crashes with drivers stopped in roadside surveys not in crashes. In addition to those studies, driver crash culpability studies and longitudinal driver record studies of patients prescribed specific medications will need to be examined. This paper also comments on potential interventions to reduce drug impaired driving.