国家大麻法律和致命伤害司机中的大麻阳性
Thea Clare Leavitt1, Stanford Chihuri2, Guohua Li3,4
1Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 722 West 168th St, New York, NY, USA.
Injury epidemiology
|April 11, 2024
概括
在有娱乐大麻法律的州的司机更有可能对大麻进行阳性测试. 这项研究使用死亡数据检查了大麻合法化对驾驶安全的影响.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 交通安全 交通安全 交通安全
背景情况:
- 大麻合法化在美国各州各不相同,有24个州和华盛顿特区拥有娱乐和医疗用途法律 (RMCL-states).
- 14个州仅允许医用大麻 (MCL州),而12个州没有全面的法律 (NoCL州).
- 了解这些政策对驾驶安全的影响至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查州级大麻合法化状态与致命受伤的司机中大麻阳性之间的关联.
- 评估娱乐用和医用大麻法律对驾驶安全结果的影响.
主要方法:
- 使用的2019-2020年命运分析报告系统 (FARS) 数据.
- 对14079名致命受伤的司机的毒理学结果进行了多变量后勤回归.
- 包括对缺乏毒理学结果的司机的多重归算数据的灵敏度分析.
主要成果:
- 33.4%的致命受伤的司机测试结果为大麻阳性.
- 大麻阳性在RMCL状态 (38.2%) 与MCL状态 (32.8%) 和NoCL状态 (30.7%) 相比较高.
- 与NoCL州相比,RMCL州的司机测试大麻阳性的几率高1.54倍.
结论:
- 超过三分之一的致命车祸的司机对大麻的检测呈阳性.
- 娱乐大麻法律显著增加了致命受伤的司机大麻阳性可能性.
- 医用大麻法律对致命受伤的司机中大麻阳性率的影响很小.
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