Drugs and driving

1978 ◽  
Vol 16 (17) ◽  
pp. 65-67
Keyword(s):  
Driving Performance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Driving Licence ◽  
Ability To Drive ◽  
Driving Licence Regulations ◽  
Drugs And Driving

The Problem - Many drugs may adversely affect driving performance, athough doctors do not always warn their patients of this possibility.1 Every doctor should be familiar with possible unwanted reactions or interactions of drugs he prescribes and with the driving licence regulations, and should advise his patients accordingly. It is an offence to drive or be in charge of a vehicle when the ability to drive is impaired by drugs. A licence holder must notify any relevant or prospective disability which is likely to last more than 3 months to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre. Relevant means a disability which could possibly be a source of danger to the public while driving. This article mainly deals with drugs which might impair driving but whose unwanted effects may be so unobtrusive that they are ignored by the patient. Laws relating to alcohol are not considered here. Some drugs (e.g. anticonvulsants for epilepsy)2 may make driving safer.

Prescription drugs and driving performance

JAMA ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 254 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Cowart
Keyword(s):  
Prescription Drugs ◽  
Driving Performance ◽  
Drugs And Driving

scholarly journals Prediction of Driving Ability in People with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Using the Stroke Driver Screening Assessment

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abiodun Emmanuel Akinwuntan ◽  
Christina O'Connor ◽  
Erin McGonegal ◽  
Kristen Turchi ◽  
Suzanne Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Predictive Accuracy ◽  
Driving Performance ◽  
Driving Ability ◽  
The Road ◽  
Relapsing Remitting ◽  
Screening Assessment ◽  
Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Ability To Drive

The ability to drive is often affected in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) because of the motor, visual, or cognitive deficits commonly associated with the condition. In this study, we investigated the accuracy with which the Stroke Driver Screening Assessment (SDSA), an established battery for the prediction of driving performance of stroke survivors, would predict driving performance of individuals with MS. Driving performance of 44 individuals with relapsing-remitting MS (mean ± SD age, 46 ± 11 years; 37 females and 7 males) who were currently driving at least once a month was predicted using their performance on the SDSA. Outcomes of a road test and the Useful Field of View (UFOV) test were used as measures of driving ability. Participants' performance on both the road and UFOV tests was predicted with more than 80% accuracy. The SDSA was more accurate in predicting who would pass the two tests than who would fail the tests. The SDSA battery appears to be a good predictor of driving performance of individuals with relapsing-remitting MS, especially those who have sufficient cognitive skills to continue driving. Larger studies are needed to definitively establish its predictive accuracy and confirm the validity of the predictions.

Drugs and driving

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (5) ◽  
pp. 376-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. Perry
Keyword(s):  
Drugs And Driving

Replications can cause distorted belief in scientific progress

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Białek
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
The Public ◽  
Psychological Science

AbstractIf we want psychological science to have a meaningful real-world impact, it has to be trusted by the public. Scientific progress is noisy; accordingly, replications sometimes fail even for true findings. We need to communicate the acceptability of uncertainty to the public and our peers, to prevent psychology from being perceived as having nothing to say about reality.

Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Robert Chatham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Municipal Hospital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Benefit Corporation ◽  
The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

Democrazy—Dem Go Craze, O: Monitoring the 1999 Nigerian Elections

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
Darren Kew
Keyword(s):  
Transition Program ◽  
The Political ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Political Class ◽  
Soccer Match ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Military

In many respects, the least important part of the 1999 elections were the elections themselves. From the beginning of General Abdusalam Abubakar’s transition program in mid-1998, most Nigerians who were not part of the wealthy “political class” of elites—which is to say, most Nigerians— adopted their usual politically savvy perspective of siddon look (sit and look). They waited with cautious optimism to see what sort of new arrangement the military would allow the civilian politicians to struggle over, and what in turn the civilians would offer the public. No one had any illusions that anything but high-stakes bargaining within the military and the political class would determine the structures of power in the civilian government. Elections would influence this process to the extent that the crowd influences a soccer match.

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