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Impaired Driving: Alcohol vs. Other Drugs  


Author:  Marcia J. Cunningham.


Source: Volume 06, Number 02, Spring 2002 , pp.32-33(2)




Impaired Driving Update

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Abstract: 

As with alcohol, it is illegal in all 50 states to drive under the influence of drugs. Unfortunately, prosecuting cases of impaired driving due to drug (rather than alcohol) ingestion poses greater difficulties. This article compares alcohol cases and drug cases and presents to complexities that make drug cases harder to prove.

Keywords: BAC; Drug Recognition Experts (DREs);

Affiliations:  1: National Traffic Law Center of the American Prosecutors Research Institute.

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