The Dangerous Pattern of Concurrent Use of Alcohol and Cocaine Among Drunk-Drivers of Northeast Italy

Alcohol and Alcoholism : International Journal of the Medical Council on Alcoholism
R SnenghiD Favretto

Abstract

To estimate the prevalence of drug and polydrug use among drunk-drivers during the driving license regranting program, in order to assess the inclusion of toxicological tests on hair and urine samples in the systematic methodology in this category of subjects. A total of 2160 drunk-drivers were tested for alcohol and drugs during driving license regranting. Thirty-one subjects showed alcohol use, 212 illicit drug use and, among these, 131 were polydrug users. Nineteen different patterns of drug and polydrug use were found. Cocaine was detected in 165 subjects. The study was performed on 2160 drunk-drivers examined at Legal Medicine and Toxicology Unit of the University of Padova, in a 3-year-period (2014-2017). The positivity for one or more illicit drugs in hair or urine samples was confirmed by LC/MS and GC/MS methods. Chi-square test, Fischer's exact test and Cochran-Armitage Trend test were used to study the correlation between general characteristics of the examined sample and the presence of drug/polydrug use. Thirty-one subjects showed alcohol use, 212 illicit drug use and, among these, 131 were polydrug users. Nineteen different patterns of drug and polydrug use were found. Cocaine was detected in 165 subjects in whom 1...Continue Reading

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