DRUGS, DRIVING, AND TRAFFIC SAFETY

As part of a continuing effort to develop information and stimulate greater research efforts on the impact of drugs on traffic safety, the World Health Organization and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA, convened a meeting of experts in April 1981, and this publication is one of the outcomes of that meeting. While its content deals mainly with methodological issues and techniques, it is hoped that it will have a broad impact in many countries and will help to bring about improved public health measures to reduce drug-related road accidents and fatalities in the future. Contents are as follows: introduction; epidemiology; effects of drugs on driving performance; the role of public health authorities; and international collaboration and future approaches to the problem.

• Corporate Authors:

  World Health Organization

  20 Avenue Appia
  1211 Geneva 27,   Switzerland 
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 57 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cooperation; Driver performance; Drivers; Drugs; Epidemiology; International; International compacts; Personnel performance; Policy; Public health; Traffic safety
• Old TRIS Terms: Future policies
• Subject Areas: Highways; Policy; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00395720
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: Offset Pub 78, HS-038 025
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 30 1985 12:00AM