Alcoholism and Traffic Deaths
- 8 September 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 275 (10) , 532-536
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196609082751005
Abstract
RECENT reports have suggested that a substantial proportion of traffic accidents involving alcohol may be attributable to people with a drinking problem rather than to social drinkers. This argument finds support in 7 types of studies:Comparison of blood alcohol levels of people involved in traffic accidents and of people not so involved. Among the drinkers in both groups the levels reached by the accident group are much higher than those of the nonaccident group and suggest an ingestion pattern that, at best, is at the extreme end of the social drinking scale.15 Comparison of admissions to alcoholism rehabilitation programs . . .Keywords
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