Attention performance among Brazilian truck drivers and its association with amphetamine use: pilot study

• Main Authors: Lucio Garcia de Oliveira (Author), Bernardo dos Santos (Author), Priscila Dib Goncalves (Author), Heraclito de Barbosa Carvalho (Author), Eduardo Massad (Author), Vilma Leyton (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 2013-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The aim of this article was to describe the attention functioning of twenty-two truck drivers and its relationship with amphetamine use. Those drivers who reported using amphetamines in the twelve months previous to the interview had the best performance in a test evaluating sustained attention func...