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And while the press is talking about illegal drugs, I'm talking about all the prescription drugs people are taking before they get behind the wheel. It is those prescription drugs that often impair mental function and turn ordinary people into unsafe drivers. Statin drugs, for example, are well known to impair coginitive ability. Antidepressants promote violent, aggressive behavior, just like we often see in road rage incidents.
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Drug-driving may be more of a problem than drink-driving, it is claimed, after more than half of the motorists killed in accidents in one police area were found to have taken drugs.
- Campaigners also say young people are twice as likely to agree to be driven by someone on drugs rather than by someone who has been drinking.
- The statistics were quoted at the launch of a Christmas campaign against drug-driving today.
- The London Drug Policy Forum initiative is aimed at drivers between the ages of 18 and 30 who are unaware of the dangers of driving after taking drugs.
- Posters on London's buses and Underground will highlight the penalties of being convicted of drug-driving.
- Campaign organiser David MacKintosh said: "We know there are people who would not dream of drinking and driving but who would happily drop a few 'Es' or smoke a few spliffs before driving.
- "We want to alert them that drug-driving has the same penalties as drink-driving and impairs people in the same way."
- Drugs such as cocaine tend to make people take more risks and narrow their senses, while cannabis impairs reactions in the same way as drinking.
- The campaign, funded by the Corporation of London, was originally aimed at recreational drug users in the City.
- Now, backed by the Metropolitan and City of London police forces and the RAC Foundation, it is hoped to extend the campaign across the country.
- The RAC Foundation said police in Durham had examined blood samples from 23 people killed in road accidents.
- Fifty per cent had traces of cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy or other drugs.
- Edmund King, executive director of the RAC Foundation, said: "For too long the real problem of drugs and driving has been a taboo subject.
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