Drugs and Driving:​ Culpability and the Results from Simulator Trials By Dr Luke Downey

Associate Professor Luke Downey is an NHMRC R.D. Wright Biomedical Career Development Fellow. He leads the Drugs and Driving Research Unit at Swinburne, and specializes in human psychopharmacology with a particular interest in how individual differences in emotional intelligence contribute to human behaviour. In 2015, Dr. Downey held a visiting scholar position at Harvard Medical School.

Take-Home Points:

• Cannabis is the most commonly detected illicit drug and THC concentrations of ≥5ng/mL increase the risk of accident culpability to OR greater than 6.

• Levels of THC in the blood are higher when consumed with alcohol than when cannabis consumed alone.

• Visual scanning distribution is reduced to a “tunneling effect” in individuals with methamphetamine and alcohol in their system.

Full article: https://psychscenehub.com/video/drug-driving-culpability-results-simulator-trials/

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