Footnotes
1. Ormston, R. (2003). Evaluation of the Drug driving TV Advert, Scottish Executive Social Research, Edinburgh http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/health/ddtva-00.asp
2. Kelly et al., (2004). "A review of drug use and driving: epidemiology, impairment, risk factors and risk perceptions" Drug and Alcohol Review.
3. Ingram, D., Lancaster, B. and Hope, S. (2000). Recreational Drugs and Driving - Prevalence Survey, Edinburgh: The Scottish Executive Central Research Unit
4. McVie, S., Campbell, S. and Lebov, K. (2004). Scottish Crime Survey 2003, Scottish Executive Social Research, Edinburgh. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/justice/sccs-00.asp
5. Stradling et al., (2003). The speeding driver: Who, How and Why? Scottish Executive Social Research, Edinburgh http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/finance/tsdw-00.asp
6. Roe, S. (2005). Drug misuse declared: findings from the 2004/05 British Crime Survey (England and Wales) Home Office Statistical Bulletin 16/05, London.
7. In 2004 MORI and TNS Social undertook a repeat of the 2003 Scottish Crime Survey as part of a study to estimate the impact of switching crime survey data collection to telephone interviewing. This involved collecting data on drug use from a random sample of Scottish adults. The data are not yet published and cannot be reported here but the estimates from the survey have been used as part of this exercise with the agreement of the SCVS project manager.
8. Respondents were only asked about driving after using drugs if they had reported using drugs. Any under-reporting of drug use would therefore have a direct impact on the measure of drug driving.
9. Ormston, R (2003) Evaluation of the Drug driving TV Advert, Scottish Executive Social Research, Edinburgh http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/health/ddtva-00.asp
10. www.knowthescore.info
11. Zuckerman, M (1979) Sensation seeking: Beyond the optimum level of arousal. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
12. Arnett, J. (1994) Sensation seeking: A new conceptualisation and a new scale. Personality and Individual Differences
13. A standard line is used throughout this report to indicate where a swear word was used.
14. see Chapter 5
15. The authors of the UK part of the IMMORTAL study, which sought to relate accident risk to drug impairment concluded that while " …it was desirable in this study to set threshold levels for drugs, above which impairment is likely, and report the prevalence of drugs above these thresholds. Unfortunately, no accepted impairment thresholds exist for oral fluid - so for estimating and reporting drug prevalence in this study, it was decided to include only cases where drug levels equalled or exceeded the confirmatory test cut-off concentrations for oral fluid proposed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ( SAMHSA). Cases that equal or exceed these SAMHSA levels indicate a positive drug usage but not necessarily impairment." The British part of the IMMORTAL study was by S C Buttress, B Sexton, R J Tunbridge and J Oliver (2005) The prevalence of drug driving and relative risk estimations: a study conducted in the Netherlands, Norway and United Kingdom
16. Sexton, S.R. et al. (2000) The influence of cannabis on driving Road Safety Division, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions