PLEASE BE FOREWARNED

I have been on the same psychiatric medications for several years and I do not feel any mental impairment as my body has become used to their effects. I do not take recreational drugs, drink or use any other controlled substances. The course of treatment that I chose to treat a severe back injury is injections of a type of steriod, again with no mental impairment.
However, all five of my psych meds have caution labels regarding driving and operating heavy equipment and that drowsiness is a risk.
In November, while backing out of my parking space, I accidentally brushed my bumper against the mailbox. The apartment manager that was aware of my diagnosis and judgemental (disabled housing, therefore, I had to disclose my diagnosis) witnessed this accident. While I was pulling out my insurance card, she called the police and told them that I was driving under the influence of drugs. They responded and did the field sobriety test and I failed two of the several tests because of my lack of ablility to stand on one foot and had difficulty with balancing while walking the line due to my back injury. The breathalzyer revealed my blood alcohol level at .00 (no alcohol involved). Yet because the apartment manager told them I was on drugs and the mixed results of the field sobriety test, I was arrested for DUI and convicted of DUI as my blood test revealed that I was taking a benzodiazepine. $7000 in legal fees and fines, eviction from my apartment, 12 months probation (at $55 per month and $25 for drug testing), mandatory treatment in the form of group therapy for drug addicts and alcoholics as well as mandatory AA meetings and 6 month revocation of my drivers license resulted. The judge had the option of dropping the case or lowering the charge to reckless driving but chose instead to throw the book at me as hard as the law allowed even though I provided him with proof of my prescriptions and the blood test revealed medications were within therapeutic levels.
I am so frustrated and angry that the law was applied in this fashion. I am medicinally compliant to enable recovery and not having any of the side effects that I first experienced when introduced to my medication. I was not impaired. Having been involved in MADD, the last thing I would ever do is drive impaired, yet, I have been convicted of doing so.
Conclusion: I don't feel like I should have to choose between treatment of a diagnosed psychiatric condition and operating a vehicle if I am not impaired. Yet, in the age of drunk/drugged driving awareness, the stigma still associated with mental illness and law as written being applied without compassion, I feel like I either need to sell my car and take a bus or go off my med, risking suicide and relapse.