AUTOMOBILE INJURIES RELATED TO DRUG ABUSE: AN INTRODUCTION TO SOME OF THE BASIC CONSIDERATIONS IN PREVENTION AND RESEARCH

The paper holds that research and preventive measures to reduce injuries stemming from the use of alcohol and other drugs in relation to motor vehicles need not always be concerned with the pharmacologic agents in crash initiation and with the characteristics of their users. It would be more constructive from the standpoint of reducing injuries to give more emphasis to those characteristics of these events whose practical modification would ameliorate or completely prevent the final result, injury of given severity. The author presents a matrix to sort out the pieces of comprehensive data collection, research, preventive or other approach to losses associated with vehicle use. The matrix also points out where alcohol and other drugs fit in the overall picture. In this matrix, the general sequence of events which lead to given totals of losses on public or private balance sheets divides into three phases of interactions which are labelled PreEvent, Event, and PostEvent. The use of the matrix and the method is discussed.

  • Supplemental Notes:
    • Presented, October 18, 1983, Second Binational Symposium, U.S.-Israel, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
  • Corporate Authors:

    Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

    1005 North Glebe Road
    Arlington, VA  United States  22201
  • Authors:
    • Haddon Jr, W
  • Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

  • Features: Figures; References;
  • Pagination: 53 p.

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00392777
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  • Report/Paper Numbers: HS-037 495
  • Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
  • Created Date: Feb 28 1985 12:00AM