Condução Sob o Efeito do Álcool

Alguns excertos e ligações a textos sobre a taxa de alcoolemia e sua influência na condução.

• Selected references on the effect of lowering the drink drive legal limits, do Institute of Alcohol Studies.
• Relatório Eurocare sobre o consumo de álcool em Portugal.
• Eurocare: Marketing Alcohol to Young People.
• Eurocare: Counterbalancing the Drinks Industry.
• Debate de 15 de Março de 2001 na Assembleia da República sobre a taxa de alcoolémia.
• Impairment at .08 BAC
• Factline on Alcohol Doses, Measurements, and Blood Alcohol Levels
• Automóvel Clube Italiano reconhece alterações com 0,2 g/l.
• África do Sul aprova 0,2 para os profissionais.
• Estudo sobre o risco relativo de acidentes fatais devido à taxa de alcoolemia.  Excerto da pág. 6:

  "Based on extensive research over several decades, we now have overwhelming evidence showing that even BACs as low as 0.02% impair driving-related skills. One line of such evidence grows out of laboratory research with dosed subjects (Moskowitz and Robinson, 1987; see also U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 1997, Chapter 7). Confirming evidence comes from field research that compares the BACs of crash-involved with non-crash-involved drivers to determine the relative risk of crash involvement (Zador, 1991; see also Perrine et al., 1989, for a review)."

  (Ver Gráfico na pág. 13: risco aumenta cerca de 10 vezes nos jovens dos 16 aos 20 anos.)

• Debate nos EUA sobre a taxa de alcoolemia de 0,2 g/l.  Ponto de vista do American Beverage Institute.
• Citações sobre álcool e condução nos EUA.  Ponto de vista do American Beverage Institute.
• Conselhos de La Prévention Routière (França).
• Redução da taxa de alcoolemia para 0,2 em Portugal vista em Espanha.
• Artigo sobre a taxa de alcoolemia e a morte na estrada no Brasil:

  B. Carlini-Cotrim e A.A. da Matta Chasin, "Blood alcohol content and death from fatal injury: a study in the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo, Brazil", Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 32(3):269-75, Julho-Setembro, 2000.
  
  (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Brazil.)
  
  This study analyzed 5,690 toxicological screenings carried out on blood and viscera of fatally injured victims at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in the Metropolitan area of Sao Paulo during 1994. The screenings analyzed correspond to 39.5% of all deaths due to injury in this metropolitan area during the same period. Almost half of the victims (48.3%) presented a positive blood alcohol content (BAC). The exact proportion however, varied according to the cause of death with 64.1% of victims of drowning testing positive for alcohol, 52.3% of homicides, 32.2% of suicides and 50.6% of motor vehicle accidents. Blood alcohol concentration was also found to vary, with suicide victims presenting low concentrations and 70% of pedestrians hit by cars presenting high concentrations (0.2% or greater). Few cases tested positive for drugs other than alcohol, and of those who did, the majority were positive for cocaine. However, it should be emphasized that the methods used for the detection of substances other than alcohol were only accurate enough to detect cases of overdose. These findings highlight the need to improve surveillance of alcohol-related fatalities in Brazil and suggest an important link between alcohol intoxication and fatal injury.