Drugs, Driving and Traffic Safety /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Verster, Joris C. (Editor), Pandi-Perumal, S. R. (Editor), Ramaekers, Jan G. (Editor), de Gier, Johan J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Driver health and traffic safety: an overview
  • Worldwide trends in alcohol and drug impaired driving
  • Drugs, driving, and models to measure driving impairment
  • Measurement and methods to determine driving ability
  • Simulator studies of drug-induced driving impairment
  • The on-the-road driving test
  • Epidemiology and traffic safety: culpability studies
  • Case-control studies
  • Prescribing and dispensing guidelines for medicinal drugs affecting driving performance
  • The relationship between drug use and traffic accident severity
  • Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs abused in driving
  • The role of driver sleepiness in car crashes: a review of the epidemiological evidence
  • Sleepiness, countermeasures and the risk of motor vehicle accidents
  • Insomnia, hypnotic drugs and traffic safety
  • Drugs, driving and traffic safety in sleep apnea
  • Drugs, driving and traffic safety in shift workers
  • Effects of anxiolytics on driving
  • Antidepressants and traffic safety
  • Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and driving safety
  • Drugs, driving and traffic safety in Parkinson's disease
  • Drugs, driving and traffic safety in multiple sclerosis
  • Drugs, driving and traffic safety in acute and chronic pain
  • Drugs, driving and traffic safety in allergic rhinitis
  • Drugs, driving and traffic safety in diabetes mellitus
  • Changes in and predictors of driving after drug use and involvement in traffic crashes because of drugs, 1992-2005
  • Reducing illegal blood alcohol limits for driving: effects on traffic safety
  • Interventions to reduce impaired driving and traffic injury
  • The alcohol ignition interlock and other technologies for the prediction and control of impaired drivers
  • Dose related risk of motor vehicle crashes after cannabis use: an update
  • Ecstasy, driving and traffic safety
  • Appendix I ICADTS Drug List 2007
  • 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.