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MMM contributed to the conception and design of the study, data acquisition, analyzed and interpreted the data, and drafted and wrote the manuscript.
HRS contributed to the conception and design of the study, to data acquisition, analysis and interpretation of the data, and also revised the manuscript.
MR critically revised the design of the study and manuscript.
VM assisted in the initial design of the study and critically revised the study proposal and the manuscript.
JM assisted in the initial design of the study and critically revised the manuscript.
BM contributed to the conception of the study, assisted in the initial design of the study, analysis and interpretation of the data and critically revised the manuscript.
All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Thank you to Stacy Salerno, David Petit, Bradley Gray, Cindy Murray, Christian Salmon, Dr. Rose Mpembeni, and Dr. Said Kilindimo fort their edits during the study proposal and data analysis.
Thank you to Dr. Margaret Salmon and the Emergency Medicine Association of Tanzania (EMAT) for helping to obtain the alcohol and drug tests necessary for this research.
Thank you to Said Saleh, the research assistant for his hard work during the data collection and follow-up.
All the authors declare that they have no competing interests.
This research was not funded.
The principal investigator used his personal time and funds to facilitate data collection.
Test kits for alcohol and illicit drugs were donated to the project by the Emergency Medicine Association of Tanzania, Dr. Brittany Murray and Dr. Margaret Salmon, none of whom have any relationship to the makers of the testing devices/supplies.
Other authors donated their time towards the project, without any funding.
© 2019 The Author(s).