ArticleCureus2025
Alcohol and Drug Use Among Injured Drivers: Insights From an Emergency Room Study at an Institute of National Importance in India.
Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Road traffic accidents & climatic factors in an urban area in Kerala, India: A time series approach.The Indian journal of medical research · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) remain a leading global public health challenge, with driving under the influence of psychoactive substances significantly elevating crash risk. Despite India's high burden of road traffic injuries, data on substance use among injured drivers - particularly in central India - are limited. Objective This study aimed to determine the prevalence and patterns of alcohol and drug use among drivers involved in MVCs, presenting to the Emergency Department of a tertiary care hospital in Raipur, India. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted with 170 drivers who were admitted to the Trauma and Emergency Department of a tertiary care centre. The drivers were tested for the presence of various substances, including alcohol, cannabis, benzodiazepines, opioids, amphetamines, cocaine, and barbiturates, using rapid detection kits. Data on demographics, crash characteristics, and substance use were analysed using descriptive statistics and chi-square tests. Results Alcohol (45.9%), cannabis (21.9%), and benzodiazepines (9.4%) were the most detected substances, exceeding national averages. Polydrug use was common (14.1%), though benzodiazepines were never detected alone. Urban drivers showed higher substance use rates (cannabis: 59.1%; alcohol: 42.3%; opioids: 16.5%). No female drivers tested positive. Substance use was associated with life-threatening injuries in a significant population (79.2%). Conclusion The high prevalence of substance use among injured drivers underscores the need for stricter enforcement of impaired driving laws (e.g., roadside testing) and public health interventions targeting at-risk populations. Multicentric studies are warranted to validate these findings.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.