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Author:  Chame Blackburn, M.D..; Dan Mayer, M.D..


Source: Volume 09, Number 03, Summer 2005 , pp.53-54(2)




Impaired Driving Update

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Abstract: 

This article contains medical studies involving the use of more resources on patients who abuse alcohol, screening tests for those who are at risk of abusing alcohol, the efficacy of brief interventions, the Surgeon General’s statement about the effects of alcohol on fetuses, a new medicine shown to help addicts curb their addiction, and the shift of intoxicated driver deaths from 20-24 year olds to 40 -44 year olds.

Keywords: Annals of Emergency Medicine; emergency department (ED); National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA); Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA); AUDIT (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test); Randomized Con

Affiliations:  1: Albany Medical College; 2: Regular Contributor.

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