[Opinionating difficulties in cases concerning the use of psychoactive agents by traffic participants]

Arch Med Sadowej Kryminol. 2007 Apr-Jun;57(2):210-4.
[Article in Polish]

Abstract

In recent years, there has been observed an increasing number of traffic participants being under the influence of drugs or other than alcohol agents that affect the central nervous system. In the period from 1997 until June 2006, 435 blood samples collected from traffic participants suspected of having ingested psychoactive agents were examined in the Forensic Medicine Department, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice. Eighty-five blood samples were positive.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Academic Medical Centers
  • Accidents, Traffic / statistics & numerical data*
  • Alcoholism / diagnosis
  • Central Nervous System Depressants / blood*
  • Central Nervous System Stimulants / blood*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Expert Testimony / standards*
  • Female
  • Forensic Medicine / standards
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Poland / epidemiology
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Risk Factors
  • Substance Abuse Detection / methods*
  • Substance-Related Disorders / blood
  • Substance-Related Disorders / diagnosis*

Substances

  • Central Nervous System Depressants
  • Central Nervous System Stimulants