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Xanax DUI arrest up 4425% since 1998 |
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Monday, 13 August 2007 |
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Tampabay.com reported recently that DUI arrests in Hillsborough County
Florida have increased from 4 in 1998 to 177 in 2006. This
represents almost a 4000% increase. Xanax is an anti-anxiety
medication that reacts strongly with alcohol. More and more
a drug of choice for teenagers who experience an alcohol like euphoria
with no detectable odor for suspecting parents to discover especially
in Henry County. We have also found that the drug is widely used
by exotic dancers in the Atlanta Area. It is also the fifth-most
commonly prescribed drug in America also known as Alprazolam according
to data from health care information companies.
In 2006, 37.5-million prescriptions for it were dispensed, up from
29.9-million in 2002. Unfortunately, Xanax reacts in such a way
that people who consume one or two drinks appear as if they have had
five or more on field tests and in impaired driving
manifestations. In Metro Atlanta, we have gone from one or two
Xanax DUIs a year to it being not uncommon to see one or two a
month. In Georgia, if you have a prescription for a given drug,
the State must prove that your are incapable of driving safely.
If you don't have a prescription, the State must prove only that you
were a less safe driver. Perplexingly, Georgia Appellate Courts
have equated the two standards of "less safe" and "incapably of driving
safely" as being the same.
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