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Drug-accident link is far from proved
Financial Review, Australia Friday 30 Jun 2000 Financial Review, Friday, 30 June 2000 p 85 Research at the Macfarlane Burnet Centre on illicit durg use and driving has shown that many heroin users drive to buy their drugs and some routinely consumed herion before driving away. However, research by Professor Olaf Drummer at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, has found that opiate users were not significantly more likely to be culpable in fatal accidents than non-users unless they had also recently consumed alcohol. For cannabis users the likelihood of culpability was actually slightly lower than for drug-free drivers, but not significantly so. Research indicates that certain drug prohibition policies may have unintended adverse effects by encouraging the consumption of drugs prior to driving.
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