 It's interesting when you look at the misconceptions and myths around drug driving They're very similar to those that were around 30 years ago when people looked at drink driving. A lot of the people then as now say My drug intake doesn't affect my driving or I'm a very experienced driver. I only consume a little bit I can tell when I'm impaired Some people actually say I drive a lot better after consuming my substance Unfortunately, what we are seeing is that the strike rate is more prevalent these days In terms of drug driving for the amount of tests that we're undertaking In comparison to drink driving with drug driving for every two tests that have been undertaken by officers We are having a positive return in driving. You need your reactions. You need your perceptions You need to be able to coordinate the body. You need to be able to think and plan ahead One of the worst things you can do is mixing psychoactive drug use with driving There's a high prevalence for cannabis being detected in the saliva and methamphetamine based drugs on top of that Cannabis uses their responses to situations such as breaking and hazard perception is much slower More increasingly detected on the roadside is methamphetamine. You find that people are much more aggressive in their driving There they take many more risks. If you are consuming illicit drugs You are more than 10 times likely to be involved in an accident if you are driving Unlike alcohol where you have a discrete measured dose of alcohol in a container or a drink There's great variation in these illicit drugs So what may occur as a time frame for one person may be very different for another person So effectively if you are driving you are operating anywhere from two to three tonne of glass rubber and steel If you are consuming drugs and you are involved in an incident you are making extraordinarily poor choices and The impact reaches beyond you and reaches out to other people whom you may either Injure main permanently or in worst-case scenario Result in a fatality if you are under the influence of drugs do not get behind the wheel