Samenvatting
With the aim of highlighting the role played by psychotropic substances (alcohol, drugs of abuse, psychoactive drugs) in causing road accidents, a survey based on clinical and chemico-toxicological analyses was carried out on car drivers in the Veneto region during the weekends of the three-month periods June-August 1994 and 1995, and in January 1995 and January 1996. The aim of the present study was to focus on the correlation between clinical signs found on objective examination and alcohol and psychoactive substances in drivers' biological fluids. (A)