作者
Claire Nightingale, Rebecca Kippen, Bernadette Ward, Mark Stoove, Brendan Quinn, Keith Sutton, Paul Dietze
发表日期
2023/2/17
期刊
Traffic injury prevention
卷号
24
期号
2
页码范围
103-108
出版商
Taylor & Francis
简介
Objective
To examine the prevalence, frequency and characteristics of drug driving and being caught for a drug driving offense and their key correlates among people who used methamphetamine in rural and metropolitan areas of Victoria, Australia.
Methods
Cross-sectional analysis of a sample of 744 people who used methamphetamine. Outcomes included self-reported drug driving (driving within three hours of consuming drugs, yes/no) and having been caught for a drug driving offense (yes/no). Sociodemographic (including rurality) and drug use variables were included in multivariable analyses.
Results
Of the 511 participants who reported driving in the six months prior to the survey, 407 (80%) reported drug driving (driving within three hours of taking an illicit drug). Most drug drivers (92.6%) reported taking methamphetamine (in combination with other drugs (59.5%) or in isolation (33.2%)) before driving. Most …