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Prescription medicines from March 2015
From March 2015 it will be illegal in England and Wales to drive with certain illegal drugs in the blood, even if you’re not unfit to drive.
It will also be illegal to drive with certain levels of certain legal drugs if you’re unfit to drive.
Talk to your doctor about whether you should drive if you’ve been prescribed any of the following drugs:
clonazepam
diazepam
flunitrazepam
lorazepam
methadone
morphine or opiate and opioid-based drugs
oxazepam
temazepam
You can drive after taking these drugs if:
you have been prescribed them and advised how to take them by a healthcare professional
they aren’t causing you to be unfit to drive
Source: https://www.gov.uk/drug-driving-law
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