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Don't Drive Drugged
Drivers
under the influence of prescription medicine or illicit drugs
are becoming an increasing problem on our nation's highways.
Just as with drunk driving or distracted driving,
driving while drugged endangers lives and puts people at risk.
The National Roadside Survey of Alcohol and Drug Use by Drivers,
a nationally representative
survey by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA), found that in 2007, 16 percent of weekend nighttime
drivers (roughly one in six) tested positive for licit or
illicit drugs. Moreover, approximately one in ten high school
seniors responding to the 2008
Monitoring the Future Study (MTF) reported driving after
smoking marijuana within two weeks prior to the survey
interview.
To help address this problem, the federal Office of Drug
National Drug Control Policy and other partner agencies have
launched an awareness campaign
to help educate the public -
especially parents and younger drivers - about drugged driving
and its associated risks.
An important message from ONDCP director Gil
Kerlikowske is below.
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