Jeffrey Eppler
University of British Columbia
5 Papers
Jeffrey Eppler is an academic researcher from University of British Columbia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Injury prevention. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications. Previous affiliations of Jeffrey Eppler include Kelowna General Hospital.
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Cannabis use as a risk factor for causing motor vehicle crashes: a prospective study.
Jeffrey R. Brubacher,Herbert Chan,Shannon Erdelyi,Scott Macdonald,Mark Asbridge,Robert E. Mann,Jeffrey Eppler,Adam Lund,Andrew MacPherson,Walter Martz,William E. Schreiber,Rollin Brant,Roy Purssell +12 more
TL;DR: A responsibility analysis to determine whether drivers injured in motor vehicle collisions who test positive for Δ‐9‐tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) or other drugs are more likely to have contributed to the crash than those who test negative found no evidence of increased crash risk in non‐fatally injured motor vehicle drivers.
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High 'N' Dry? A Comparison of Cannabis and Alcohol Use in Drivers Presenting to Hospital after a Vehicular Collision.
Jeffrey R. Brubacher,Herbert Chan,Shannon Erdelyi,Y. Yuan,Raoul Daoust,Christian Vaillancourt,B. Rowe,J. Lee,E. Mercier,P. Atkinson,P. Davis,D. Clarke,A. Macpherson,Marcel Émond,D. al-Hakim,C. Horwood,Ian Wishart,Kirk Magee,J. Rao,Jeffrey Eppler +19 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a study of injured drivers identifies demographic and collision characteristics associated with high tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentrations, which are more strongly associated with cannabis-related collisions.
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Prevalence of alcohol and drug use in injured British Columbia drivers.
Jeffrey R. Brubacher,Herbert Chan,Walter Martz,William E. Schreiber,Mark Asbridge,Jeffrey Eppler,Adam Lund,Scott Macdonald,Olaf H. Drummer,Roy Purssell,Gary Andolfatto,Robert E. Mann,Rollin Brant +12 more
TL;DR: Alcohol, cannabis and a broad range of other impairing drugs are commonly detected in injured drivers and more work is needed to understand the role of medications in causing crashes to guide driver education programmes and improve public safety.
Prevalence of Impairing Substance Use in Injured Drivers
Jeffrey R. Brubacher,Shannon Erdelyi,Herbert Chan,Sarah Simmons,P. Atkinson,Floyd Besserer,David B. Clarke,Phil Davis,Raoul Daoust,Marcel Émond,Jeffrey Eppler,Jacques S. Lee,A. Macpherson,Kirk Magee,E. Mercier,Robert Ohle,Michael Parsons,Jagadish Rao,B. Rowe,John Taylor,C. Vaillancourt,Ian Wishart +21 more