Seithikurippu R. Pandi-perumal

Drugs, Driving and Traffic Safety Seithikurippu R. Pandi-perumal 2009 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Jacket Description/Back: 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 experts present the different methodologies to examine effects of drugs on driving, and summarize the recent scientific evidence including epidemiological studies, roadside surveys, laboratory tests, driving simulators, and the standardized driving test. The volume includes guidelines of the International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS) and the ICADTS Drugs List 2007. Drugs, Driving and Traffic Safety is written for physicians, psychiatrists and pharmacists who want to inform their patients who use psychoactive drugs. Review Quotes: "This is a substantial volume with 59 contributors providing 30 chapters and 2 appendices. The various chapters cover the gamut of topics and issues related to drugs, driving and traffic safety and the editors are to be congratulated on recruiting an internationally diverse group of well-recognised authorities in the subject matter of the various fields of interest covered. Drugs and Driving is arguably one of the broadest canvasses within Psychopharmacology but, by and large, these individual chapters do coalesce to give an integrated expert commentary. Basically there are three topic areas, though the book is in no way divided as such. The first contains contributions on aspects of health, epidemiology and traffic safety; the role of drugs and/or sleepiness as causal agents in traffic accidents; methods and measures for assessing car driving ability. The second area examines the pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic properties of drugs; the effects of alcohol, cannabis, Ecstasy, hypnotics, anxiolytics and antidepressants on measures of driving ability and the relationship between drugs, driving and traffic safety in shift-workers, Parkinson s disease, multiple sclerosis, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), sleep apnoea, pain, allergic rhinitis and diabetes mellitus. Finally, there are papers discussing predictors of accidents and patterns of drug-involved traffic accidents and countermeasures and ways of reducing/preventing impaired drivers taking the wheel ... this excellent book will provide insight for those measuring, treating, regulating and researching the effects of psychoactive drugs on car driving ability and accident liability." Ian Hindmarch - Hum. Psychopharmacol Clin Exp 2010; 25: 191"Table of Contents: Dedication -- Credits and acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Driver health and traffic safety: an overview / Henry J. Moller -- Worldwide trends in alcohol and drug impaired driving / Barry M. Sweedler, Kathryn Stewart -- Drugs, driving, and models to measure driving impairment / Katherine Owens, Johannes G. Ramaekers -- Measurement and methods to determine driving ability / Gunter Berghaus, Ralf-Dieter Hilgers -- Simulator studies of drug-induced driving impairment / Anthony Liguori -- The on-the-road driving test / Joris C. Verster, Johannes G. Ramaekers -- Epidemiology and traffic safety: culpability studies / Olaf H. Drummer -- Case-control studies / Sjoerd Houwing, Rene Mathijssen, Karel A. Brookhuis -- Prescribing and dispensing guidelines for medicinal drugs affecting driving performance / Johan J. de Gier, F. Javier Alvarez, Charles Mercier-Guyon, Alain G. Verstraete -- The relationship between drug use and traffic accident severity / Beitske E. Smink, Toine C. G. Egberts -- Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs abused in driving / Marilyn A. Huestis, Michael L. Smith -- The role of driver sleepiness in car crashes: a review of the epidemiological evidence / Jennie L. Connor -- Sleepiness, countermeasures and the risk of motor vehicle accidents / Christopher A. Alford -- Insomnia, hypnotic drugs and traffic safety / Joris C. Verster, Monique A. J., Mets, Tim R. M. Leufkens, Annemiek Vermeeren -- Drugs, driving and traffic safety in shift workers / Mark E. Howard, Melinda L. Jackson, Stuart Baulk -- Drugs, driving and traffic safety in shift workers / Monique A. J. Mets, Kenny R. van Deventer, Berend Olivier, Edmund R. Volkerts, Joris C. Verster -- Effects of anxiolytics on driving / Annemiek Vermeeren, Tim R. M. Leufkens, Joris C. Verster -- Antidepressants and traffic safety / Joris C. Verster, Johannes G. Ramaekers -- Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and driving safety / Daniel J. Cox, Margaret Taylor Davis -- Drugs, driving and traffic safety in Parkinson's disease / Yvonne Kaussner, Hans-Peter Kruger -- Drugs, driving and traffic safety in multiple sclerosis / Sylvia Kotterba -- Drugs, driving and traffic safety in acute and chronic pain / Dieuwke S. Veldhuijzen, Anne Mieke Karsch, Albert J. M. van Wijck -- Drugs, driving and traffic safety in allergic rhinitis / Eef Lien Theunissen, Annemiek Vermeeren, Eric F. P. M. Vuurman, Johannes G. Ramaekers -- Drugs, driving and traffic safety in diabetes mellitus / Igor A. Harsch, Katharina Hoesl -- Changes in and predictors of driving after drug use and involvement in traffic crasches because of drugs, 1992-2005 / Ralph W. Hingson, Wenxing Zha -- Reducing illegal blood alcohol limits for driving: effects on traffic safety / James C. Fell, Robert B. Voas -- Interventions to reduce impaired driving and traffic injury / David A. Sleet, Peter Howat, Randy Elder, Bruce Maycock, Grant Baldwin, Ruth Shults -- The alcohol ignition interlock and other technologies for the prediction and control of impaired drivers / Paul R. Marques -- Dose related risk of motor vehicle crashes after cannabis use: an update / Johannes G. Ramaekers, Gunter Berghaus, Margriet W. van Laar, Olaf H. Drummer -- Ecstasy, driving and traffic safety / Kim P. C. Kuypers, Wendy M. Bosker, Johannes G. Ramaekers -- 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 -- Subject Index. Publisher Marketing: 'Drugs, Driving and Traffic Safety' gives an overview of the effects of different psychoactive drugs and medications on driving ability. It thoroughly discusses effects of alcohol and illicit drugs on driving ability and traffic safety.