Context, acute tolerance, and subjective response affect alcohol-impaired driving decisions.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Alcohol intoxication produces effects that can impair judgment and increase engagement in risky behaviors, including alcohol-impaired driving (AID). Real-world AID decisions are informed by contextual circumstances and judgments of associated risk. How individuals vary in their AID decision-making across contexts and whether subjective alcohol responses (stimulation, sedation, acute tolerance) differentially affect AID decisions are critical, but under-studied research questions.

Objectives

We systematically investigated predictors of AID decisions at different hypothetical driving distances across the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) curve.

Methods

Young adults (n = 40; 55% female) completed two laboratory sessions in a within-subjects alcohol/placebo desi

SUBMITTER: Motschman CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7686294 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature