Drugs, Driving and Traffic Safety

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Verster, Joris C. (Editor), Pandi-Perumal, S. R. (Editor), Ramaekers, Johannes G. (Editor), Gier, Johan J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhũser Basel, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Toxicology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Human Physiology.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-9923-8

Drugs, Driving and Traffic Safety gives a comprehensive overview of the effects of different medical conditions like neurological disorders, anxiety and depression and their pharmaceutical treatment on driving ability. In addition, the effects of alcohol and drugs of abuse are discussed. Leading exp...

Table of Contents:

• Overview
• Worldwide trends
• Models to measure driving impairment
• Measurement & methods to determine driving ability
• Simulator studies
• The on-the-road driving test
• Culpability studies
• Case-control studies
• Guidelines for medicinal drugs
• Relationship between drug use & traffic accident severity
• Pharmacokinetics & pharmacodynamics of drugs
• Driver sleepiness and countermeasures
• Insomnia & hypnotic drugs
• Sleep apnea
• Shift workers
• Anxiolytics
• Antidepressants
• ADHD
• Parkinson<U+0019>s disease
• Multiple sclerosis
• Acute & chronic pain
• Allergic rhinitis
• Diabetes mellitus
• Changes & predictors, 1992<U+0013>2005
• Reducing illegal blood alcohol limits for driving
• Interventions to reduce impaired driving
• The alcohol ignition interlock
• Cannabis
• Ecstasy
• ICADTS drug listing.