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ALCOHOL AND AQUATIC DISASTERS
Author(s) -
Mackie Ian
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1978.tb112612.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , psychology , operations research , computer science , mathematics
Seventy-four years and 2 million road deaths later we are still battling with this problem to which we now find added the problems of heroin, cannabis, LSD, barbiturates, tranquillizers, and so on. Furthermore, the collectors of statistics provide us with little in the way of encouragement. The relationship between alcohol and motor vehicle accidents has been the subject of a considerable volume of medical literature and, of course, has received abundant exposure in the lay press. The effects of alcohol on human performance have been studied and documented very clearly by psychologists, pharmacologists and other research workers." 3 4 5 6 Their publications on human perceptual, cognitive, and motor performance form the basis of our im-