DRINKING, DRUG USE AND ACCIDENTS: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Following a discussion of some common characteristics of social epidemiological surveys of alcohol and drug use, this paper addresses the basic question: What is known from epidemiological studies about patterns of alcohol and drug use that can improve our understanding of their relationship to automobile accidents? The following three answers are discussed: (1) The United States experienced an epidemic of illicit drug use beginning around 1965; (2) There are relatively invariant developmental stages of drug involvement, these stages being cumulative rather than substitutable; and (3) Consequences are more likely to occur if two or more drugs are consumed so that their effects overlap.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Full title of publication is Alcohol, Drugs and Driving: Abstracts and Reviews in Alcohol and Driving.
• Corporate Authors:

  Brain Information Service

  California University, Center for Health Science
  Los Angeles, CA  United States  90024
• Authors:
  • CLAYTON, R
• Publication Date: 1985-6

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 1-15
• Serial:
  • ALCOHOL, DRUGS AND DRIVING
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue Number: 1-2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcoholic beverages; Crashes; Data collection; Drugs; Epidemiology; Surveys
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00452024
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-039 204
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 31 1986 12:00AM