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The "homogamy" of road rage: understanding the relationship between victimization and offending among aggressive and violent motoristsMark Asbridge
Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Violence Vict 18:517-31. 2003..Moreover, road rage was not isolated among young adults; rather, road rage was prominent across all ages, with the exception of seniors. Consistent with the existing literature, road rage was higher in urban settings...- Drugs and driving: when science and policy don't mixMark Asbridge
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, 5790 University Avenue, Halifax, NS B3H 1V7
Can J Public Health 97:283-5. 2006..Finally, a brief surveillance of international policy literature on drugs and driving is offered, along with some sober thoughts on the potential difficulties that may emerge in the enforcement of the proposed legislation... 
Private space second-hand smoke exposure and the mental health of non-smokers: A cross-sectional analysis of Canadian adultsMark Asbridge
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, 5790 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 1V7 Electronic address
Addict Behav 38:1679-86. 2013....
Acute cannabis consumption and motor vehicle collision risk: systematic review of observational studies and meta-analysisMark Asbridge
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 1V7
BMJ 344:e536. 2012..To determine whether the acute consumption of cannabis (cannabinoids) by drivers increases the risk of a motor vehicle collision...- Whither RDS? An investigation of Respondent Driven Sampling as a method of recruiting mainstream marijuana usersAndrew D Hathaway
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1
Harm Reduct J 7:15. 2010..Because they are less visible, responsible recreational users of illicit drugs have been more difficult to study... - The relationship of home smoking bans to the physical and mental health of smokersMark Asbridge
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, 5790 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 1V7, Canada
Nicotine Tob Res 13:70-7. 2011..The second suggests that home smoking bans have a negative relationship to smokers' mental health by increasing marginalization and social isolation... - Driving under the influence of alcohol: examining ethno-specific rates and the mediating effects of psychological distress and harmful and problematic drinkingMark Asbridge
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Accid Anal Prev 42:1408-15. 2010..Implications of study findings are considered with respect to the role of ethnicity in impaired driving research and its impact on programs and policies directed at reducing impaired driving... - Homicide in Chicago from 1890 to 1930: prohibition and its impact on alcohol- and non-alcohol-related homicidesMark Asbridge
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Addiction 104:355-64. 2009..The aim of the current paper is to examine the impact of the enactment of constitutional prohibition in the United States in 1920 on total homicides, alcohol-related homicides and non-alcohol-related homicides in Chicago... - Can we prevent road rage?Mark Asbridge
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Trauma Violence Abuse 7:109-21. 2006..The strengths and weaknesses of these strategies are discussed... - Motor vehicle collision risk and driving under the influence of cannabis: evidence from adolescents in Atlantic CanadaMark Asbridge
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Accid Anal Prev 37:1025-34. 2005..A series of models were analyzed adjusting for demographic characteristics, driver experience, and substance use... - Ethno-specific patterns of adolescent tobacco use and the mediating role of acculturation, peer smoking, and sibling smokingMark Asbridge
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Addiction 100:1340-51. 2005..The objectives of this study are to identify the relationship between ethnic identity and tobacco use, and to examine the mediating effects of peer and sibling smoking and acculturation... - The criminalization of impaired driving in Canada: assessing the deterrent impact of Canada's first per se lawMark Asbridge
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, 5790 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 1V7, Canada
J Stud Alcohol 65:450-9. 2004.... - Self-reported collision risk associated with cannabis use and driving after cannabis use among Ontario adultsRobert E Mann
Social, Prevention and Health Policy Research Department, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Traffic Inj Prev 11:115-22. 2010.... - Risk of depression and multiple sexual risk-taking behaviours in adolescents in Nova Scotia, CanadaDon Langille
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sex Health 9:254-60. 2012..We tested associations between multiple sexual risk-taking and risk of depression, controlling for other factors, including social capital, in high school students in Nova Scotia, Canada... - Cannabis use and self-reported collisions in a representative sample of adult driversRobert E Mann
Social, Prevention and Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Safety Res 38:669-74. 2007..This study examines the relationships between collision involvement and several measures of cannabis use, including driving after using cannabis, among drivers, based on a population survey of Ontario adults in 2002 and 2003... - Suicidal behaviours in adolescents in Nova Scotia, Canada: protective associations with measures of social capitalDonald B Langille
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, 5849 University Avenue, Halifax, NS, B3H 3H7, Canada
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 47:1549-55. 2012.... - The effects of drinking-driving laws: a test of the differential deterrence hypothesisRobert E Mann
Social, Prevention and Health Policy Research Department, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Addiction 98:1531-6. 2003..We test the differential deterrence hypothesis which would predict that social or lighter drinkers would be more affected by the Administrative Driver's License Suspension law than heavier drinkers... - Adolescent passengers of drunk drivers: a multi-level exploration into the inequities of risk and safetyChristiane Poulin
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Addiction 102:51-61. 2007..This study determined the individual-, neighbourhood- and provincial-level effects of rural residence, socio-economic status (SES), substance use and driving behaviours on adolescents' riding with a drunk driver (RDD)... - The utilization of antidepressants and benzodiazepines among people with major depression in CanadaChiranjeev Sanyal
Graduate Student, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Can J Psychiatry 56:667-76. 2011.... - Age group differences in collision riskRobert E Mann
Social and Epidemiological Research Department, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
J Safety Res 41:445-9. 2010..The purpose of the current study was to examine differences in factors associated with self-reported collision involvement of three age groups of drivers based on a large representative sample of Ontario adults... - Drinking-driving fatalities and consumption of beer, wine and spiritsRobert E Mann
Social, Prevention and Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada
Drug Alcohol Rev 25:321-5. 2006..In North America, beer is taxed at a lower rate than other alcoholic beverages. The role of taxation policies as determinants of drinking-driving deaths is discussed... - Passengers' decisions to ride with a driver under the influence of either alcohol or cannabisJennifer Cartwright
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, 5790 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3L 1W6
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 72:86-95. 2011..The purpose of the present study was to identify the risk factors associated with passenger decisions to ride with a driver who is under the influence of either alcohol or cannabis... - An overview of injuries to adolescents and young adults related to substance use: data from Canadian emergency departmentsKaren Black
Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
CJEM 11:330-6. 2009..This paper provides an overview of alcohol-related injury among adolescents and young adults presenting to Canadian emergency departments (EDs)... - Associations of sexual risk-taking with having intercourse before 15 years in adolescent females in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, CanadaDonald B Langille
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H3H7, Canada
Sex Health 7:199-204. 2010..This study was carried out to determine whether having first vaginal intercourse before 15 years of age is independently associated with sexual risk behaviours in Canadian female adolescents aged from 15 to 19 years... - Prevalance and determinants of antidepressant use among Canadian Forces members experiencing major depressive episodesChiranjeev Sanyal
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
J Popul Ther Clin Pharmacol 18:e54-64. 2011..Major depression affects a significant proportion of individuals including those serving in the military; but, there is less information on the pharmacological treatment they receive... - Public place restrictions on smoking in Canada: assessing the role of the state, media, science and public health advocacyMark Asbridge
Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, 725 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2J4
Soc Sci Med 58:13-24. 2004..Results lend support to the quantitative study of the policy adoption process and to theories of policy making that consider multiple influences on policy adoption... - Associations of risk of depression with sexual risk taking among adolescents in Nova Scotia high schoolsKevin Wilson
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Can J Psychiatry 55:577-85. 2010..We examined the relation between depression and sexual risk-taking behaviours in adolescents after accounting for the effects of other variables... - Diet quality and academic performanceMichelle D Florence
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
J Sch Health 78:209-15; quiz 239-41. 2008..This study examines the association between overall diet quality and academic performance... - Passengers' Decisions to Ride With a Driver Under the Infl uence of Either Alcohol or CannabisJennifer Cartwright
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, 5790 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3L 1W6
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 72:86-95. 2011..J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 72, 86-95, 2011)... - Psychiatric distress among road rage victims and perpetratorsReginald G Smart
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Russell Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2S1
Can J Psychiatry 48:681-8. 2003..To investigate the relation between psychiatric distress and road rage, paying particular attention to the potential link between psychiatric illness and frequent involvement in serious forms of road rage... - Letter to the editor and reply on: "Drugs and driving," Traffic Injury Prevention, 5:241-253, 2004Mark Asbridge
Traffic Inj Prev 6:197; author reply 197. 2005 - Illicit drug use, alcohol use and problem drinking among infrequent and frequent road ragersJennifer E Butters
Centre for Urban Health Initiatives, University College, Room 259A, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont, Canada M5S 3H7
Drug Alcohol Depend 80:169-75. 2005..Further work is needed to identify the mechanisms by which illicit drug use and problem drinking are linked to road rage... - Our favourite melodies: musical consumption and teenage lifestylesJulian Tanner
Department of Social Science, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada
Br J Sociol 59:117-44. 2008..Our findings are then discussed in the light of current debates about the nature and dimensions of listening audiences for music...