OTHER DRUGS’ EFFECT ON YOU AND YOUR ABILITY TO DRIVE

Page 382-388 of the driver’s education text book

1. Alcohol is not the only drug that can impair your ability to drive. Both legal and illegal drugs can impair your driving ability.

2. Drugs that affect your driving ability.

NARCOTICS / DEPRESSENTS / STIMULANTS / HALLUCINOGENS
Heroin / Alcohol / Amphetamine / Marijuana
Codeine / Barbiturates / Cocaine / Lsd
Morphine / Methadone / Pcp
Sleeping pills / Hashish
tranquilizers

3. What types of legal drugs impair your driving ability?

Over the counter, prescription, alcohol and illegal drugs

4. over the counter drugs can be purchased legally in drug stores and supermarkets without a doctor’s prescription.

5. You can get prescription drugs at a pharmacy or drugstore, but you cannot buy them unless your doctor writes a prescription or prescribes them for you.

6. Many prescription drugs have warnings on the package or bottle that will advise you not to driver or take the medication in combinations with alcohol. Obey the warnings.

7.depressantsare prescription drugs that slow down, or depress the central nervous system. When used properly their basic affect is to calm you down.

8. What is an example of the most common abused depressant?

Alcohol

9. What are three classes of illegal drugs?

Stimulants, hallucinogens, narcotics

10. How do stimulants affect your body and what are some examples?

Speed up central nervous system ex: caffeine, cocaine

11. hallucinogens , or mind altering drugs, change the way a person thanks, sees, and acts, all of which definitely impair driving ability. The abuse of these drugs and result in temporary psychosis or long term mental damage.

12. List four examples of hallucinogens.

Lsd, pcp, marijuana, hashish

13. Explain the effect of narcotics on the body and give two examples and how they are used.

Strong depressant effect, create a euphoria. This leads to serious addictions EX: heroine and codeine. Smoked or injected

14. Synergism is another drug mixed with alcohol to enhance the effects of one or both .

15. Give an example of a Synergism.

Pain pill and alcohol

16. How can alcoholism or Drug abuse be prevented? (use page 386-387)

Support groups, legal measures

17. Potential losses for young people resulting from drug abuse or alcohol abuse include money , freedom , health , friends , family , drivers license and life .