{"title":"LOW-DOSE ALCOHOL EFFECTS ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND PERFORMANCE","authors":"F. Holloway","doi":"10.1037/e410462004-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/e410462004-001","url":null,"abstract":"This literature survey reviews the effects of alcohol on human behavior and performance, especially low alcohol dose effects. This review consisted of 155 empirical studies dating from 1985 to mid-1993, using the alcohol effect schema of Kruger. Several general conclusions that were largely in agreement with previous reviews on this topic were reached. First, sensitivity to the subjective intoxicating effects of alcohol was greater than that for all other performance classes and appeared to display a \"threshold\" with respect to blood alcohol concentration (BAC), rather than the linear relation evident in performance data. Second, sensitivity to performance impairment in \"controlled\" performance and simulator tasks was greater than that for psychophysical function or \"automatic\" performance. Finally, a variety of task-, subject-, and environmental-characteristics or conditions were found to mediate the magnitude and sensitivity to alcohol effects, particularly at lower doses. This review concluded that since alcohol sensitivity can vary from time to time, person to person, and situation to situation, the setting of a \"safe\" BAC will always be arbitrary, being based on a low, but non-zero, incidence of effects below that level.","PeriodicalId":80408,"journal":{"name":"Alcohol, drugs, and driving : abstracts and reviews","volume":"1 1","pages":"39-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89752681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FATIGUE AND DRIVING","authors":"N. McDonald","doi":"10.1108/9780080555874-014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/9780080555874-014","url":null,"abstract":"The accumulation of recent evidence on accident rates in relation to exposure to risk makes it possible to re-evaluate the contribution of fatigue to road safety, particularly in relation to the working hours of professional drivers. While there is little evidence that the actual task of driving itself is a major contributor to fatigue, a range of temporal and other variables have shown strong associations with accident rates, including hours of work, time of day, type of shift, together with age of driver and type of transport operation. There is some evidence for cumulative effects over several days. However, fatigue should not be thought of as a simple function of these variables, because there are various ways and strategies of coping with fatigue over the short term, and over the longer term, processes of adaptation and selection are also important.","PeriodicalId":80408,"journal":{"name":"Alcohol, drugs, and driving : abstracts and reviews","volume":"14 1","pages":"185-192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82097758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adolescent problem drinking: Psychosocial aspects and developmental outcomes","authors":"R. Jessor","doi":"10.1007/978-3-662-02475-1_13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02475-1_13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80408,"journal":{"name":"Alcohol, drugs, and driving : abstracts and reviews","volume":"73 1","pages":"241-264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83402553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE LIKELIHOOD OF ACETONE INTERFERENCE IN BREATH ALCOHOL MEASUREMENT","authors":"J. Frank, A. Flores","doi":"10.1037/e485852008-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/e485852008-001","url":null,"abstract":"This report discusses the significnce of possible interference of acetone in breath alcohol testing. The following dimensions are considered: (1) what levels of acetone concentration may appear on the breath, (2) what levels of acetone concentration may produce significant breath alcohol concentration readings by breath testers, and (3) which instrument types may be sensitive to the presence of acetone. The issue of acetone interference was found to have no practical significance in traffic law enforcement for the following reasons: (1) The level of actone on the breath that would be required to produce even minimal breath alcohol concentration readings (e.g. 0.01%) is rarely seen in the on-the-road arrest situations (i.e. less than 0.028% of the situations). (2) Diabetic and dieting individuals who are well enough to drive do not have sufficient levels of acetone on their breath to increase breath alcohol concentration readings more than a very small amount (practical maximum of 0.01% to 0.02%). (3) The number of evidential breath testers in use that are unable to discriminate between acetone and ethyl alcohol is very small, estimated to be less than 1,000 nationwide. Most commercially available evidential breath testers sold today are made to distinguish acetone from ethyl alcohol, so that the issue is moot in almost all cases.","PeriodicalId":80408,"journal":{"name":"Alcohol, drugs, and driving : abstracts and reviews","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90520495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}