In November 2008 and again in March 2009, an expert panel was convened by the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration with the goal of determining whether a list could be …

Rationale Use of psychotropics is relatively prevalent amongst motor vehicle drivers
because mobility is also important for persons suffering from psychiatric illness. However …

The overall assessment of the effects of medicinal drug use on driving performance results
from the literature on epidemiology, impairment, risk assessment and risk factors, risk …

Background This study was designed to compare two methods (direct measurement of
exposure and quasi-induced exposure) for assessing the effect of age and sex on the risk of …

Dramatic events such as crashes could alter driver behavior and change driving risk during
post-event period. This study investigated the influence of crashes on driving risk using the …

Background The current generation of older adults reports a higher lifetime prevalence of
prescription, over-the-counter, and recreational drug use. The purpose of this analysis is to …

Objective This study examines contribution of substance use (including alcohol,
cannabinoids, stimulants, narcotics, depressants, and hallucinogens) on the probability of …

Introduction: Concerns have been raised that the nonlinear relation between crashes and
travel exposure invalidates the conventional use of crash rates to control for exposure. A …

This report reviews recent studies of the incidence of drug use by drivers. Only reports
published since a 1980 state of knowledge report were included. The report is divided into …

Potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) identified by the American Geriatrics Society
should generally be avoided by older adults because of ineffectiveness or excess risk of …