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Cocaine, methamphetamine don’t impact your ability to drive well, but they may make you drive more impulsively. Opiates, benzos, and alcohol all affect technic

Cocaine, methamphetamine don’t impact your ability to drive well, but they may make you drive more impulsively. Opiates, benzos, and alcohol all affect technical driving skills in a negative way. I’m not opening the THC and driving can of worms.

kerkeslager 7y ago
> Cocaine, methamphetamine don’t impact your ability to drive well, but they may make you drive more impulsively. I'm very skeptical of this claim. Do you have any evidence? Note that impressions of ones own performance while on drugs are not necessarily accurate.
- quickthrowman 7y ago
  As it turns out, I was using my own experience as a guide, but this meta study[0] supports my claim. Lab tests imply better driving skills while real word experience shows the opposite. Cocaine and methamphetamine increase impulsivity, and “real users” (addicts) of meth in particular are prone to stay up for extremely long periods of time, long enough where the meth wouldn’t counteract the physical exhaustion, which would account for meth leading to more accidents in real life conditions. I still maintain that cocaine or meth would improve the driving skills and response times for a rested person. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22842792/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22842792/
  - kerkeslager 7y ago
    > I still maintain that cocaine or meth would improve the driving skills and response times for a rested person. Yeah, it does look like the evidence supports that. Interesting stuff. If restedness is the real factor, it becomes pretty difficult to regulate that. There are two problems I can think of: 1. I don't think that someone being on meth or cocaine meets the burden of proof to say they aren't rested. 2. People drive without adequate rest, even without stimulants. If someone is hasn't slept in 48 hours, it seems like it would be better for them to be on stimulants than not.
ThrustVectoring 7y ago
>Cocaine, methamphetamine don’t impact your ability to drive well, but they may make you drive more impulsively. Stimulant therapy on adults with ADHD has been shown to improve driving skill. Furthermore, ADHD is found more often in cocaine users than in the general population, likely due to self-medicating tendencies.
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kerkeslager 7y ago

> Cocaine, methamphetamine don’t impact your ability to drive well, but they may make you drive more impulsively. I'm very skeptical of this claim. Do you have any evidence? Note that impressions of ones own performance while on drugs are not necessarily accurate.

quickthrowman 7y ago
As it turns out, I was using my own experience as a guide, but this meta study[0] supports my claim. Lab tests imply better driving skills while real word experience shows the opposite. Cocaine and methamphetamine increase impulsivity, and “real users” (addicts) of meth in particular are prone to stay up for extremely long periods of time, long enough where the meth wouldn’t counteract the physical exhaustion, which would account for meth leading to more accidents in real life conditions. I still maintain that cocaine or meth would improve the driving skills and response times for a rested person. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22842792/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22842792/
- kerkeslager 7y ago
  > I still maintain that cocaine or meth would improve the driving skills and response times for a rested person. Yeah, it does look like the evidence supports that. Interesting stuff. If restedness is the real factor, it becomes pretty difficult to regulate that. There are two problems I can think of: 1. I don't think that someone being on meth or cocaine meets the burden of proof to say they aren't rested. 2. People drive without adequate rest, even without stimulants. If someone is hasn't slept in 48 hours, it seems like it would be better for them to be on stimulants than not.

ThrustVectoring 7y ago

>Cocaine, methamphetamine don’t impact your ability to drive well, but they may make you drive more impulsively. Stimulant therapy on adults with ADHD has been shown to improve driving skill. Furthermore, ADHD is found more often in cocaine users than in the general population, likely due to self-medicating tendencies.

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