Drugs and driving].

N Duquet

Service Projets Scientifiques, CDSP-CWOA, APB. nathalie.duquet@apb.be

Journal de pharmacie de Belgique 2013 Jun

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Driving requires alertness at every moment. If everybody knows that between drink and drive, you must choose, few people know that many drugs can have an adverse effect on their ability to drive a vehicle. Most often it is because they can cause drowsiness, make them less attentive or slow reflexes that some drugs increase the risk of accidents, but they can also affect the ability of judgment, impair the view or cause dizziness what becomes dangerous when you're on the road. It is the responsibility of the pharmacist to attract the attention of the patient during the provision of these drugs on the negative impact they can have on driving.