AAA's Senior Driving webpage is a tool to keep yourself and others safe on our roads and highways. It is useful for anyone who is not sure how a drug may impact driving ability. Click on this link
and learn how to drive safely this holiday season and into the New Year.
Here's some
info, directly from AAA's site:
Eight out of
ten drivers age 65 and older take medications on a regular basis. And despite
high prescription and over-the-counter medication use, almost half of seniors
using medications have never talked with their health care providers about how
the drugs might affect their safe driving abilities.
Roadwise Rx is
a free, confidential tool developed by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety that
adults can use to explore how medications may affect safety behind the wheel.
How it works
Roadwise
Rx offers a way for you to record all of your medications in one central
location. It also provides customized feedback on how your prescription and
over-the-counter drugs, herbal supplements and foods, as well as their
interactions with each other, can affect safety behind the wheel.
PS:
For some reason marijuana does not come up in the search criteria, but methamphedamine does. I have sent an email to AAA asking them to add marijuana's side effects so that people are aware that marijuana does impair motor skills.
For more visit: www.seniordriving.aaa.com
