Prevalence of alcohol and other drugs and the concentrations in blood of drivers killed in road traffic crashes in Sweden

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 177-183

  Ahlner, Johan ^a   Holmgren, Anita ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alcohol; driving; drugs; impairment; traffic fatalities

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; DRUG; STREET DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CAR DRIVING; CHILD; DRIVING; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; HUMAN; IMPAIRMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC FATALITIES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ALCOHOL; DRIVING; DRUGS; IMPAIRMENT; TRAFFIC FATALITIES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CHILD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STREET DRUGS; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894489858     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: 16511905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1403494813510792     Document Type: Article

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