Sunday, October 31, 2021

Car crash deaths involving cannabis increasing and more likely to involve alcohol

 

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/933225

 

 News Release 29-Oct-2021
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Boston Medical Center

 

New research indicates that between 2000 and 2018, the percentage of car crash deaths in the United States involving cannabis have doubled, and the percentage of deaths involving both cannabis and alcohol, have more than doubled. Researchers from Boston Medical Center, Boston University, and University of Victoria found people who died in crashes involving cannabis had 50 percent greater odds of also having alcohol in their system. Published in the American Journal of Public Health, these results suggest that as states have loosened cannabis policies, cannabis and alcohol have increasingly been used together when driving.

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tags: drug use, drug abuse,

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