One effective event-level index that can assist in identifying risky intoxication levels among college students is blood alcohol concentration (BAC). Despite widespread exposure to BAC information, doubt exists as to whether American college students can accurately estimate their own BAC level or drinking behaviors while intoxicated. This study assessed whether students can accurately guesstima...

Extensive research has been conducted on the effects of alcohol on both human behavior and driving capability; and Hurst (3) was able to establish dose response relationships between blood alcohol concentration and accident rate. The research that has been conducted with marihuana has been far less wide spread. We are just beginning to understand its basic effects, and are far from establishing...

Breath alcohol measurements and other data collected at randomly selected roadside sites were combined with data on fatally injured drivers in crashes occurring on the same weekdays and times (Friday and Saturday nights) at locations matched by the size of the nearest town. A logistic model was fitted to these data for the years 1995-2000 to estimate the effects of alcohol, driver's age and the...

To analyze the cofactors of alcohol-related trauma at a rural, Level II trauma center, 127 admitted trauma patients were interviewed about psychological problems, social factors, and medical histories. Patients were divided into two groups, blood alcohol content (BAC) positive and BAC negative, for analysis. Seventy-one patients (56%) were BAC negative; 56 (44%) were BAC positive. Forty-three o...

AIMS To describe clinical, mental and physical signs in children with different severity acute alcohol intoxication (AAI) determined either by serum alcohol concentration (SAC) or by blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to study the diagnostic performance characteristics of clinical assessment and to establish the ratio of SAC:BAC in children. METHODS Data were analysed from 256 children aged 8....

The use of c44qatis, jspi$epprep4 throughguf thg world, and in many countries is increasing (1). After alcohol, the most frequently found psychoactive substance in the blood of motorists involved in traffic crashes is cannabis. The very high costs, in human and financial terms. of road traffic crashes underscores the need for a clear understanding of the contribution of cannabis use to the inci...