A state grant will help provide resources to test for more than 100 intoxicating drugs that can impair people behind the wheel.
When people drive under the influence, it’s not always from alcohol. The San Diego Sheriff’s Department says it’s creating a process to test more than a hundred intoxicants to determine what else is creating danger on the road. KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge has more.
At least half of all drivers arrested for DUI have more than one drug in their system, said Jennifer Harmon, director of the San Diego Sheriff’s crime lab. She added that any one of a long list of intoxicants can make someone dangerous behind the wheel.“The most common drugs we find in a person who is stopped, in addition to alcohol, is cannabis, methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl,” Harmon said. “We also see Xanax, which is a prescription medication.
, published in January, showed that while about 50% of people who just smoked marijuana were impaired behind the wheel, their impairment was unrelated to the content of THC found in their blood.To determine whether someone is impaired after using cannabis or fentanyl needs to be done the old fashioned way. That’s when a police officer observes their behavior, and makes them perform a standardized field test.
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