Prescription Medication DUI

If you have been arrested for driving under the influences of prescription medication the effects of that arrest are exactly the same as if you were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol, cocaine or methamphetamine.

Most pill bottles whether prescription or over the counter contain a warning that you shouldn't drive a motor vehicle unless you know the effects of that particular drug on your abilities to operate heavy machinery. Law enforcement in the state of California has been charged with the responsibility of going out and removing drivers off the road even if they are taking prescription medications exactly the way their doctor has prescribed and intended.

The pharmacokinetic effects and pharmaceutical effects of most medications are significantly less than the time they remain in your body. What that means is if you take some sort of pain killer it might only kill your pain for four hours but twenty four hours later if you're stopped by an officer and they say, "Have you taken any medications in the last twenty four hours?" And you say, "Sure, I had a Vicodin twenty four hours ago." They can arrest you charge you and you can be convicted for driving under the influence of Vicodin, even though the effect of that Vicodin ended eighteen hours before.

You need a lawyer who understands the pharmacokinetic and pharmaceutical effects of each drug classification on the human body. And that's exactly what we do.