Medicines

What medicines are dangerous to take when you would like to drive? All medicines, alleviate anxiety and function as sedatives or soporitics, can effect your mind and body in a way so it will be dangerous to drive. The most common is the group of bensodiazepines, which have all the effects. They will affect the center in the nervesystem, which keeps the feelings and reactions in control. The most known in Sweden is Valium.

Side effects

When you use medicines, like bensodiazepines, you can get some unwonted side effects. The Swedish Medicinelabour has received reports about side effects. There can be over 40 different side effects. The most common are:

mental problems
indisposition
vomiting
tiredness

There have also been cases when the body temperature has been lower then normal.

Addiction

When you take a form of sedative you can easily become addicted and when you try to quit or you don't get as much as you want, you get withdrawal symptoms. There are many different withdrawal symptoms, but every one doesn't affect your driving. They who will affect your driving are as follows:

trembling
unreal experience
confusion
sight and hearing illusions
epileptical attacks
tiredness
memory disturbance
difficulty concentrating

Many sedative have such a long effect that it will be dangerous to drive the day after you have take the medicine. Is it possible that the addiction is more dangerous than the medicine? A yellow triangle with a red border is a sign on the bottle, which means that the medicine can affect your body and mind so that it will be dangerous to drive. Tobacco Tobacco does not affect your body or mind in any way so that it will be dangerous to drive, but when people try to quit they can easily get withdrawal symptoms. And that can affect your driving in a negative way. Many people are smoking at the same time as they are driving. It can be annoying for passengers, but it may also disturb the driver's concentration.

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