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Article: Fed: Common drug diminishes a person's driving ability: study
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- July 18, 2005
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AAP General News (Australia)
07-18-2005
Fed: Common drug diminishes a person's driving ability: study
By Janelle Miles, National Medical Correspondent
BRISBANE, July 18 AAP - A commonly-prescribed medication, often abused by recreational
drug users and truckies, diminishes a person's driving ability even at low doses, Australian
research has found.
PhD student Beata Silber, of Melbourne's Swinburne University of Technology, tested
20 occasional drug users on a driving simulator - once when they were given Dexamphetamine
and also when they were taking a placebo, or dummy tablet.
She found that when the men and women, aged between 21 and 35, were given therapeutic
doses of the drug - an ...