SIMULATED DRIVING PERFORMANCE OF BENZODIAZEPINE USERS

The basic aim was to study if benzodiazepine users exhibit impaired performance in simulated car driving and in laboratory tests. Effects of a small dose of alcohol on performance were also studies. The users exhibited greater intra individual speed variation at simulated driving, and impaired performance on simple reaction time and memory. No other differences were found. No relationship was found between dosage and behavior. Alcohol had no effects on performance. The results of the study do not give any clear indication that persons who use prescribed medication with benzodiazepines would constitute a notable traffic safety problem.

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• Corporate Authors:

  International Association for Accident and Traffic Medicine

  Huddinge University Hospital Center, Traffic Medicine Center
  Stockholm,   Sweden  141 86
• Authors:
  • TORNROS, J
  • Vikander, B
  • Ahlner, J
  • Jonsson, K-A
• Publication Date: 2000

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 67-80
• Serial:
  • Journal of traffic medicine
  • Volume: 28
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: International Association for Accident and Traffic Medicine
  • ISSN: 0345-5564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcohol effects; Benzene; Drivers; Drug effects; Impaired drivers; Laboratory tests; Performance evaluations; Simulation
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00806079
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 17 2001 12:00AM