Drugs, Driving and Traffic Safety (eBook)

Contents 5
Dedication 8
Credits and acknowledgements 9
List of contributors 10
Preface 15
Driver health and traffic safety: an overview 17
Worldwide trends in alcohol and drug impaired driving 39
Drugs, driving, and models to measure driving impairment 58
Measurement and methods 74
Simulator studies of drug- induced driving impairment 90
The on- the- road driving test 98
Epidemiology and traffic safety: culpability studies 107
Case- control studies 121
Prescribing and dispensing guidelines for medicinal drugs affecting driving performance 135
The relationship between drug use and traffic accident severity 149
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs abused in driving 165
The role of driver sleepiness in car crashes: a review of the epidemiological evidence 200
Sleepiness, countermeasures and the risk of motor vehicle accidents 219
Insomnia, hypnotic drugs and traffic safety 245
Drugs, driving and traffic safety in sleep apnea 257
Drugs, driving and traffic safety in shift workers 282
Effects of anxiolytics on driving 300
Antidepressants and traffic safety 317
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and driving safety 324
Drugs, driving and traffic safety in Parkinson’s disease 340
Drugs, driving and traffic safety in multiple sclerosis 356
Drugs, driving and traffic safety in acute and chronic pain 364
Drugs, driving and traffic safety in allergic rhinitis 380
Drugs, driving and traffic safety in diabetes mellitus 391
Changes in and predictors of driving after drug use and involvement in traffic crashes because of drugs, 1992– 2005 405
Reducing illegal blood alcohol limits for driving: effects on traffic safety 422
Interventions to reduce impaired driving and traffic injury 445
The alcohol ignition interlock and other technologies for the prediction and control of impaired drivers 463
Dose related risk of motor vehicle crashes after cannabis: an update 483
Ecstasy, driving and traffic safety 506
Appendix I: ICADTS Drug List 2007 524
Appendix II: International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety. Guidelines on experimental studies undertaken to determine a medicinal drug’s effect on driving or skills related to driving 546
Subject Index 558