Prescription Drug DWI
Prescription drugs can be vital to your health. However, prescription drugs can impair one’s driving, even if taken in the amount specified by your physician. Many prescriptions such as Valium, Flexeril, and Hydrocodone have similar side effects. These side effects include dizziness and drowsiness, as well as confusion and some memory problems. Each of these side effects can be used as evidence for probable cause to stop you for impaired driving. If these kinds of prescription drugs are found in your system, they can be used as evidence that you were driving while impaired, regardless of the amount found. If an officer has probable cause to stop a vehicle due to impaired driving, the field sobriety tests that he may ask you to perform are the same for an alcohol DWI (the one leg stand, the walk and turn, and the HGN).
Even if you pass all of the standardized field sobriety tests with flying colors, you may have your breath, urine, and blood tested for impairing substances. If the inspecting officer finds even the slightest trace of impairing substance, you may be convicted of driving while impaired. Because there is no legal limit of prescription drugs that you can have in your system while driving, all that is required to make an arrest is a trace of these selected prescription drugs with potentially impairing side effects.
Fight A Prescription Drug DWI With Our Help
If you or a loved one has been charged with a DWI while on medication, it is crucial that you contact a criminal defense lawyer immediately. The consequences of being convicted of a DWI charge are difficult to endure, and no one should be wrongly accused, especially in a case if you were taking prescription medicine. Do not allow the pressures of a DWI charge to cause you to make a wrong decision. You need an attorney who will carefully assess the evidence of your case and will defend you energetically and persuasively against false or twisted evidence, in addition to actively protecting your constitutional rights. Contact our firm as soon as possible to fight for your rights!
