Review of Drug Impaired Driving Legislation (Victoria Dec 2000) and New Random Drug Driving Legislation Based on Oral Fluid Testing
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Background In the state of Victoria in Australia, the development of effective alcohol and driving legislation has produced significant reductions in alcohol related road trauma over the past three decades. The development of drug driving legislation in recent years has followed a similar progression from providing for impairment based enforcement to the recent introduction of random roadside screening of drivers for the presence of THC and methamphetamine. This paper both outlines the history of development of legislativelybased drug-driving countermeasures, and describes the operation of newly introduced roadside drug screening procedures.
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