By Herbert Moskowitz (Eds.)
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The significant features of the accident involvement of the groups were that despite the low exposure of the psychiatric group's nondrinkers, they were significantly more often involved in 42 M. MAKI and L. LINNOILA Table 6. Characteristics of drug use of rheumatoid arthritic, tuberculous, psychiatric patients having driver's license Control Group Rheumatoid Arthritic Group Tuberculous Group Psychiatric Group 223 319 252 The Use of Prescribed Drugs 284 n Percent Percent 8 al 59 a123 3 6 \ 41 Do Not Use Drugs Uses 1 - 2 Drugs Uses 3 or More Drugs 55>2 37J 100 100 Total Percent 16 a2 55"y84 29J 100 Percent 9*3 54"V91 37j 100 The Frequency of Drug Use 156 92 n Percent Percent 22 a4 78 49a456 51 Uses Every Week Uses Every Day 100 100 Total 247 Percent 15 a5 85 100 190 Percent 18a6 82 100 The Regularity of Drug Use 165 111 n Uses Regularily Do Not Use Regularily Total 280 202 Percent Percent Percent 78 22 81 19 93 7 73 27 100 100 100 100 Percent The Duration of Drug Use n 94 164 Percent Percent a 49 7 67 33 999 Days 1,000 - 2,999 Days 3,000 - 34 17 100 Total 100 223 Percent 4 0 a8 34 26 100 196 Percent 53 a78 34 13 100 12345678 = Statistically significant difference at the level of 1% Table 7.
The effect of the alcohol dose fell between that for the 2 higher hashish treatments. The present study was designed to shed further light on the effect of marihuana on simulated driving performance using a more complex simulator than the cited studies. tThis work was supported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. A. Ahumada, University of California, Irvine, aided in the statistical analysis, and the computer processing was performed by the Health Sciences Computing Facility and the Campus Computing Network, UCLA.
W. 0 > βΛ The fact that the present study did notfindan impairment of car handling or tracking does not, of course, eliminate this aspect as a possible driving hazard related to marihuana consumption. An earlier study of alcohol effects on this simulator also failed to show significant impairment on these measures, although it did indicate a significant increase in within-subject variability [Moskowitz, 1971]. Both the LeDain Commission [1972] and Klonoff [1974] studies of closed course driving did show an impairment in tracking.
