You can get a DUI for having prescribed medication in your system, even if taken as prescribed, because it means you can still be impaired.
“For a misdemeanor DUI, that can be anything from you actually having alcohol or THC, so marijuana, in your system. You can even get a DUI for having prescribed medication. So a lot of people think hey, if I'm taking my prescriptions even if you're taking them the way you're supposed to be, you can't get a DUI. The problem is that's not completely true.”
“So let's take Ambien for example. Ambien is, I'm sure a lot of you have heard, people take Ambien and then they'll wind up downstairs raiding the kitchen fridge, eating a whole bunch of stuff and not remembering it. That's one of the dangers with Ambien is it's one of those more powerful prescription medications. So I've had clients who have actually come and been charged with DUI for having an Ambien in their system, even though it's a prescribed medication, even though we show that they are allowed to have that in their bloodstream, it means that you can still be impaired.”
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