{"id":94266,"date":"2013-01-18T15:54:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=94266"},"modified":"2013-01-18T15:54:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:54:35","slug":"danger-on-the-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/danger-on-the-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Danger on the roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_94273\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94273\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/014-017_Tecnociencia_201-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"140\" \/><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">L\u00e9o Ramos<\/span><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Study shows that cocaine is the drug most used by Brazilian drivers<span class=\"media-credits\">L\u00e9o Ramos<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A study carried out on Brazilian federal highways showed that 10% of 2,235 drivers whose saliva was tested had consumed some type of psychoactive drug, either prescribed or illegal.\u00a0 Conducted by researchers from the University of Bras\u00edlia (UnB) and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in collaboration with the Federal Highway Police, the study validated an analytical method that in a single test combines 32 chemical compounds related to several types of substances.\u00a0 Alone or mixed with other drugs, cocaine was the substance found to be most present in the saliva of 129 motorists (5.8%).\u00a0 Next came amphetamines in 69 samples, 31 of which are related to appetite suppressants such as fenproporex and diethylpropion, banned in Brazil in 2011.\u00a0 Of all drivers, 22 had taken more than two types of drugs, like cocaine and marijuana or cocaine and benzodiazepines (tranquilizers) for example.\u00a0 Conducted between 2008 and 2009, the study collected samples from drivers of cars (50.5%), motorcycles (29.6%), buses (10.8%) and trucks (9.1%).\u00a0 Led by Professor Eloisa Dutra Caldas at the School of Sciences and Health of UnB, the study was published in the September 24, 2012 online issue of the journal <em>Forensic Science International<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danger on the roads","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"coauthors":[93],"class_list":["post-94266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94266"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=94266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}