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[–] 57 points 2 months ago (20 children)

codeine is an opiate. you're not allowed to drive on that.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    let me literally tell you what my pain management MD told me. "Practice doing the sobriety tests on opioids until you can pass" i think i had the worst doctor.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    In UK you can if it doesn't affect your driving.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    and how do you tell if it has? imagine if the standard for alcohol was the same...

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    If you can drive safely then go ahead but if you're impaired by too much of anything that you would drive poorly then don't. I thought this was common sense.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (5 children)

    the uk sticks out in the statistics of legal limits for alcohol in europe at 0.8‰ BAC; most countries are at 0.2 with some having a zero-tolerance policy, because it affects people so differently and it's hard to tell.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    Interesting, if other countries have less driving accidents then it may be worth considering lowering our legal limit. That is, if we can actually detect something is affecting them. Unless the driver is already driving erratically then we must presume the effects of any drink or other drugs isn't affecting them. Mandatory testing or randomly pulling people over to test them would be a gross over-reach. We trust people to change their own break pads, I trust them to know if they can drive on painkillers.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    Mandatory testing or randomly pulling people over to test them would be a gross over-reach.

    that's... the standard in all of europe.

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  • [+] -20 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I am here

    I take one tablet, if I need to

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  • [–] 45 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    "Take opioids instead of non-psychoactive cannabinoids for pain" is a wild take my guy

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  • [+] -10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    There was an injection of tongue in cheek with the first comment as well, but that seemed to have missed most

    There’s a big difference between one Panadeine forte and the opioids you might be thinking of. Sometimes it’s just a paracetamol

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    ...paracetamol is not an opioid.

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