{"id":25973,"date":"2019-07-21T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/?p=25973"},"modified":"2019-07-23T11:43:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T17:43:54","slug":"52-of-pedestrians-killed-in-traffic-accident-tested-positive-for-psychotropic-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/52-of-pedestrians-killed-in-traffic-accident-tested-positive-for-psychotropic-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"52% of pedestrians killed in traffic accident tested positive for psychotropic drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25994\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/peatones-muerte-accidente-auto-positivo-medic-psicotropica.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/peatones-muerte-accidente-auto-positivo-medic-psicotropica.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/peatones-muerte-accidente-auto-positivo-medic-psicotropica-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/peatones-muerte-accidente-auto-positivo-medic-psicotropica-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>According to the Report of the Spanish National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences, <strong>43.4% of drivers who died in traffic accidents last year had consumed alcohol, drugs or psychotropic drugs<\/strong>. More surprisingly, the study also concludes that <strong>52.7% of pedestrians killed in accidents tested positive for psychotropic drugs, mainly sleep medications<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The general director of Traffic (DGT) in Spain, Pere Navarro, has <strong>taken advantage of the presentation of the study to demand that doctors put more emphasis on the implications of the consumption of psychotropic drugs in road safety, when prescribing medications<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>In figures<\/h3>\n<p>Specifically, the <strong>report includes 751 cases of deaths (535 drivers, 143 pedestrians and 73 companions), which are not all fatalities due to traffic accidents, but a representative sample<\/strong>. Of the deceased drivers, <strong>43.4% were positive in alcohol, drugs or psychotropic drugs and of them, 94.4% were men, the majority (65%) between 25 and 54 years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>By type of substance, alcohol was the most frequent substance, with 61% of positive cases among deceased drivers (70% of them with BAC above 1.2 g \/ l), but the data on drugs were also high (44%) and at least 25% had also used psychotropic drugs. <strong>Among the drugs, the most frequent substance was cannabis (59%), followed by cocaine (51%)<\/strong>. Looking back over a decade ago, the number of deceased drivers who had consumed alcohol have fall, opposite to the growth of those who had used drugs, especially cannabis and cocaine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Regarding the pedestrians killed in an accident, the study estimates that 67% were men and 34% were over 50 years old<\/strong>. Alcohol consumption was present in 45% and drugs present in 21% of those who tested positive. The DGT is particularly concerned about the high percentage of those who had consumed psychiatric drugs, which exceeded 52% of pedestrians killed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <em>Correo Farmac\u00e9utico<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Report of the Spanish National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences, 43.4% of drivers who died in traffic accidents last year had consumed alcohol, drugs or psychotropic drugs. More surprisingly, the study also concludes that 52.7% of pedestrians killed in accidents tested positive for psychotropic drugs, mainly sleep medications. The general director &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-25973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en-la-salud","tag-casalud","cat-3-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25995,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25973\/revisions\/25995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}