Citation

Brauchle P, Weinmann W, Pollak S. Blutalkohol 1997; 34(6): 385-395.

Affiliation

Institut fur Rechtsmedizin, Klin. der Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, International Committee on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety and Bund gegen Alkohol und Drogen im Straßenverkehr, Publisher Steintor Verlag)

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Abstract

This study examines in retrospect, 131 cases of drivers with conspicuous behaviour in road traffic of the year 1995 in the area of southern Baden. In these cases the samples were analysed chemical-toxicologically at the Institute of Legal Medicine of the University of Freiburg under suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs (DUID). These cases represent 4 per cent of the 3 289 cases tested for alcohol. The evaluation showed a positive result in 74 per cent of all suspicuous DUID-cases when tested for drugs in blood and/or urine. The most frequently detected drugs in the samples were: Cannabinoids in 31 per cent. opiates in 28 per cent, benzodiazepines in 28 per cent and cocaine in 11 per cent of all cases. In 50 per cent of the cases tested positive for drugs, more than one drug was detected. Often there was also a combination of drugs with alcohol. Benzodiazepines and cannabinoids were more frequently combined with alcohol than opiates. In more than half of the cases there was a time span of over 1 hour between the incident and the sampling. Overall there were seven times as many men as there were women. The results found in the southern Baden area are being compared with similar studies from Homburg/Saar, Zurich and Lausanne.

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