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OfflineWronguy

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NSW govt to up drug driving deterrence
    #7816578 - 12/31/07 10:33 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

http://news.smh.com.au/nsw-govt-to-up-drug-driving-deterrence/20071231-1jkp.html

NSW govt to up drug driving deterrence

The NSW government has defended its efforts to curb drugged driving after a survey found an alarming number of young people admitted to the practice.

The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre survey found 73 per cent of young people at nightclubs admitted to being passengers in a car while knowing the driver was under the influence of ecstasy, ice, cocaine or cannabis, at some stage.

Almost 40 per cent of respondents admitted they took ecstasy before driving and 30 per cent admitted they had driven after taking methamphetamine.

Nearly one in five drove after taking cocaine and a similar number drove after taking ice.

Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell has accused Labor of failing to provide police with enough drug buses to conduct random roadside testing.

The state government commissioned a drug testing bus in January and plans to have two more on the road early in the new year.

But Mr O'Farrell said even then NSW would be lagging behind Victoria.

"We will only have three [drug buses] when Victoria has eight, despite the fact NSW's population is 25 per cent greater," Mr O'Farrell told reporters in Sydney.

"The state government needs to get serious about this issue."

Police Minister David Campbell said the government was committed to tackling the problem, while conceding that "Victoria started this process before NSW".

"We've watched closely and learnt from the Victorian experience," Mr Campbell said.

The minister said existing mobile drug testing methods and technology was "quite cumbersome" and the government would more readily deploy it as technology "evolved".

Premier Morris Iemma said the survey also found that 46 per cent of drug drivers would change their behaviour if they thought they could be pulled over and tested.

"The survey has highlighted a change in attitude as we saw with ... random breath testing," Mr Iemma told reporters.

"It changed culture and it changed attitudes and this one [random drug testing] will as well."


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Invisiblegtrisket
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Re: NSW govt to up drug driving deterrence [Re: Wronguy]
    #7816717 - 12/31/07 11:25 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Wronguy said:

30 per cent admitted they had driven after taking methamphetamine.

Nearly one in five drove after taking cocaine and a similar number drove after taking ice.





Maybe I am confused and you guys can help me out. I thought that "ice" was meth... which means this article first states 30% then 20% of people have taken meth and driven... am I the only one confused?


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Offlinedarklucidity
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Re: NSW govt to up drug driving deterrence [Re: gtrisket]
    #7816934 - 12/31/07 12:37 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Nah, the journalist is too.
:smile:


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Re: NSW govt to up drug driving deterrence [Re: darklucidity]
    #7817007 - 12/31/07 01:01 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

There are a few ways to take "meth", but ice means smoked crystal, if that means anything =/


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Re: NSW govt to up drug driving deterrence [Re: shroom_ninja]
    #7817014 - 12/31/07 01:03 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Stupid Australians.


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Re: NSW govt to up drug driving deterrence [Re: Wronguy]
    #7819135 - 01/01/08 06:54 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Wronguy said:
Almost 40 per cent of respondents admitted they took ecstasy before driving and 30 per cent admitted they had driven after taking methamphetamine.

Nearly one in five drove after taking cocaine and a similar number drove after taking ice.




Actually it states 1/5 people (20%) drove after cocaine, similar number drove after taking ice. The similar # is approximately 1.5/5 people (or 30%).  Sure thats why they said similar to cocaine as 1.5 is not a whole number and I've never met anyone that is more than 1 whole person :wink:.

I do agree that it's a stupid policy to just breath/drug test random drivers.  Hope that never happens in the US.  At least here they are supposed to have probable cause.


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