Determining standards of care for substance abuse and alcohol use in long-haul truck drivers

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• Personal Author:
  Anderson DG ; Riley P
• Description:
  The trucking industry employs approximately 9 million workers, with approximately 3 million being long-haul truck drivers. Truck drivers are exposed to a variety of stressful situations, such as working long hours, no sleep, inadequate rest and relaxation, being away from home and support systems, and driving in hazardous conditions. These risk factors place the long-haul truck driver at an increased risk for possible use or abuse of alcohol and drugs. Identification of those at risk and those who are abusing alcohol and drugs is vitally important for the health of these truckers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Alcoholic Beverages Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Sleep Sleep Initiation And Maintenance Disorders Substance-Related Disorders Workplace
• Keywords:
  Alcoholic-beverages Drug-abuse Drugs Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Risk-factors Sleep-deprivation Statistical-analysis Stress Truck-drivers Trucking Work-environment Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  0029-6465
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  357-365
• Volume:
  43
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20038930
• Citation:
  Nurs Clin North Am 2008 Sep; 43(3):357-365
• Contact Point Address:
  Debra Gay Anderson PhD, APRN, BC, College of Nursing, University of Kentucky, 315 CON Building, Lexington, KY 40536-0232, USA
• Email:
  danders@uky.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• Performing Organization:
  University of Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20020930
• Source Full Name:
  Nursing Clinics of North America
• End Date:
  20060929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:15b54799cba5ec23ce92f34fb97c18252d2ee377ae3f8b718e20783dc2a622b25bc125f5fb04b65dd4c3664308c82d4ed7305451a23124e9f9bb5ca4018c666d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192456/cdc_192456_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.20 MB ]