T2000 Special Issue

May 2000

ISSN 1016-0477

THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL, DRUGS AND TRAFFIC SAFETY

The International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS) is an independent nonprofit body made up of internationally known researchers and policy makers whose goal is to reduce mortality and morbidity brought about by misuse of alcohol and drugs by operators of vehicles in all modes of transportation. To accomplish this goal, the committee sponsors international and regional conferences to collect, disseminate and share essential information among professionals in the fields of law, medicine, public health, economics, law enforcement, public information and education, human factors, and public policy. It also sponsors working groups on a variety of key topics in order to publish reports providing guidance to policy-makers and practitioners.

ICADTS EXECUTIVE BOARD

PAST PRESIDENTS OF ICADTS

ICADTS MEETINGS

Fifty years ago, the International Committee on Alcohol and Traffic, forerunner of ICADTS, was established at the first international conference in Stockholm. One hundred forty six participants from nineteen countries met for four days to discuss the role of alcohol in traffic safety. That was the beginning. Since then, thirteen additional conferences have been held, generally at three-year intervals. T2000 again brings the conference to Stockholm during the jubilee year of ICADTS.

Proceedings of all of the major conferences, satellite conferences, regional meetings and jointly-sponsored workshops have been published. This amounts to thousands of pages of material which provide a history of the development of research over the last four decades in alcohol, drugs, and traffic safety.

Following is a list of all of the official ICADTS conferences and the proceedings documents.

1st - 1950 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
Alcohol and traffic. Proceedings of the first International conference on alcohol and traffic. Stockholm, Sweden 1950 August 30 - Sept. 1. Ed. R. Wagnsson. Stockholm, 1951. 336 p.

2nd - 1953 TORONTO, CANADA
Alcohol and road traffic. Proceedings of the second International conference on alcohol and road traffic. Toronto, Canada, September 9 to 12, 1953. Toronto, 1955. 167 p.

3rd - 1962 LONDON, ENGLAND
Alcohol and road traffic. Proceedings of the third International conference on alcohol and road traffic. London, September 3-7, 1962. Ed. John Havard. London: British Medical Association, 1963. 362 p.

4th - 1965 BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, USA
Alcohol and traffic safety. Proceedings of the fourth International conference on alcohol and traffic safety. Bloomington, Ind., December 6-10, 1965. Ed. R. Harger. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University, 1966. 353 p.

5th - 1969 FREIBURG IM BREISGAU, WEST GERMANY
Alcohol und Verkehrssicherheit. Konferenzbericht der 5. Internationalen Konferenz über Alkohol und Verkehrssicherheit, Freiburg im Br. 1969. Freiburg im Breisgau, 1970. 467 p.

6th - 1974 TORONTO, CANADA
Alcohol, drugs and traffic safety. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs, and Traffic Safety, Toronto, September 8-13, 1974. Ed. S. Israelstam and S. Lambert Toronto, Canada. Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario, 1975. 939 p.

7th - 1977 MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
Seventh International conference on alcohol, drugs and traffic safety. Proceedings. Melbourne 23-28 January 1977. Ed. Ian R. Johnston. Canberra: Australian government publishing service. 1979. 712 p.

8th - 1980 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
Alcohol, drugs and traffic safety. Proceedings, 8th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, June 15-19, 1980, Stockholm, Sweden. Ed. Leonard Goldberg. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1981. 3 vol. 1489 p.

9th - 1983 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
Alcohol, drugs and traffic safety. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, September 1985, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Ed. S.Kaye and G. Meier. Report No. DOT-HS-806-814, United States Department of Transportation.

10th - 1986 AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
Alcohol, drugs and traffic safety. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, Sept. 9-12, 1986, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Ed. P.C. Noordzij and R. Roszbach, The Netherlands, 1987. 685 p.

11th - 1989 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA
Alcohol, drugs and trqffic safety. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, October 24-27, 1989, Chicago, Illinois. Ed. M. W. Bud Perrine. Chicago, IL, USA, National Safety Council, 1990. 970 p.

12th - 1992 COLOGNE, GERMANY
Alcohol, drugs and traffic safety - T92. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, September 28-October 2, 1992, Ed. H.D. Utzelmann, G. Berghaus, G. Kroj, Cologne, Germany, 1993, 3 Vol., 1602 p.

13th - 1995 ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA
Alcohol, drugs and traffic safety. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, August 13-18 , 1995, Ed. C.N. Kloeden & A. J. McLean, NHMRC Road Accident Research Unit, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, 1995, 2 Vol., 957 p.

14th - 1997 ANNECY, FRANCE
Alcohol, drugs and traffic safety. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, September 21-26, 1997, Ed. C. Mercier-Guyon, CERMT, Annecy, France, 1997, 3 Vol.

15th - 2000 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
Alcohol, drugs and traffic safety. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety, May 21-26, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden, Eds. Hans Laurell and Frans Schlyter.

In addition, ICADTS has co-sponsored the following international conferences and workshops:

• Roadside Surveys, Umea, Sweden, June 23-25, 1980
• Punishment and/or Treatment for Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and Other Drugs, Stockholm, Sweden, October 19-20, 1984
• Congener Alcohols and their Medicolegal Significance, Dusseldorf, Germany, September 6-7, 1987
• Women, Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic, Stockholm, Sweden, September 29-30, 1988
• High Alcohol Consumers and Traffic, Paris, France, November 28-30, 1988
• The Vulnerable Road User, New Delhi, India, Jan. 27-30, 1991
• Methodology in Man-Machine Interaction and Epidemiology on Drugs and Traffic Safety, Padova, Italy, October, 1991
• The Nature of the Reasons for the Worldwide Decline in Drinking and Driving, The Hague, The Netherlands, September 23, 1993
• Strategies for Dealing with the Persistent Drinking Driver, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, July, 1994
• Combatting Impaired Driving in an Era of Diminished Resources and Shifting Priorities, Irvine, California, August, 1996
• Issues and Methods in the Detection of Alcohol and the Drugs, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, July, 1998
• Research Needs and Priorities, Irvine, California, August, 1999

(To obtain the proceedings of the above mentioned meetings, contact the Reporter's editors.)

THE WIDMARK AWARD

The Widmark Award was established in 1965 at Indiana University in honor of Professor Erik M. P. Widmark of the University of Lund in western Sweden, whose comprehensive research work during the first half of this century touched on all the aspects of the pharmacology of alcohol. The Award is the highest honor that ICADTS can confer on individuals and organizations who have made outstanding contributions to our basic knowledge of the effects of alcohol and other mood-altering drugs on traffic safety..

Widmark Laureates

1965	Professor R. N. Harger, U.S.A.
1968	Professor Leonard Goldberg, SWEDEN
1974	Professor Robert F. Borkenstein, U.S.A.
1977	Dr. Norman McCallum, AUSTRALIA, Professor Joachim Gerchow, F.R.G. Mr. Robert Donigan, U.S.A.
1980	Professor Kurt M. Dubowski, U.S.A. Professor Gottfried Machata, AUSTRIA
1983	Professor Oskar Gruener, F.R.G., Dr. Milan R. Valverius, M.D., SWEDEN
1986	Dr. John Birrell, AUSTRALIA, Professor Ulrich Heifer, F.R.G.
1989	Dr. John Havard, U.K. Dr. H. Laurence Ross, U.S.A.
1992	Dr. Jarmo Pikkarainen, FINLAND Dr. Herbert Simpson, CANADA Dr. Hans Klette, SWEDEN
1995	Hans Laurell, SWEDEN Dr. Patricia Waller, U.S.A.
1997	Dr. A. W. Jones, SWEDEN Dr. Herbert Moskowitz, U.S.A. Dr. Allan F. Williams U.S.A.
2000	Dr. Robert B. Voas, U.S.A.

Special Widmark Centennial Award

1989	Professor Wolfgang Bonte, F.R.G.

Widmark Institutional Awards

• The National Safety Council, U.S.A.
• The British Medical Association, U.K.
• The Kurataorium fur Verkehrssicherheit, AUSTRIA
• The Traffic Injury Research Foundation, CANADA
• The Bund Gegen Alcohol im Strassenverkehr, F.R.G.
• The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, U.S.A.
• The Northwestern University Traffic Institute, U.S.A.
• The University of North Carolina, Highway Safety Research Center, U.S.A.
• The Vermont Alcohol Research Center, U.S.A.
• The Centre of Behavioural and Forensic Toxicology, ITALY
• The Institute for Human Psychopharmacology, The NETHERLANDS
• Mothers Against Drunk Driving, U.S.A.
• The National Public Services Research Institute, U.S.A.
• Remove Intoxicated Drivers, Inc., U.S.A.

Special Presidential Awards

• Dr. Robert F. Borkenstein
• Dr. Milan R. Valverius

ICADTS MEMBERSHIP

In order to become a member of ICADTS, individuals in the alcohol, drugs and traffic safety field must be sponsored by two current ICADTS members and approved by a vote of the ICADTS Executive Board. To receive information on ICADTS membership, check the ICADTS Web Site or contact ICADTS Secretary Elizabeth Wells-Parker, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762 USA, Tel: 601-325-7959, Fax: 601-325-7966, Email: bwparker@ssrc.msstate.edu. Current dues for ICADTS are $60 per year.

THE ICADTS NEWSLETTER

The ICADTS Reporter is the official newsletter of ICADTS and is available to members and other interested parties free of charge by contacting the editors, Kathryn Stewart or Barry Sweedler at 9804 Peppermill Place, Vienna, VA 22182, USA, Tel: 301-984-6509, Fax: 301-984-6559, Email: Stewart@pire.org, Sweedlb@ntsb.gov, or by visiting the ICADTS web site: http://raru.adelaide.edu.au/icadts.