http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/04/08/20100408arizona-dui-medicine-cases.html
The driver was wearing his tennis shoes on the wrong feet, and he could lift his arms only halfway to his chocolate-covered face when officers stopped him at a Tucson fast-food restaurant.
He seemed impaired. Yet there was no alcohol in the 44-year-old's system.
It would take a toxicology test to learn that a cocktail of five different drugs was coursing through the driver, who was later charged with DUI.
In the Tucson case, the stop for erratic driving eventually revealed that the motorist was under the influence of anti-anxiety drugs and anti-depressants
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The number of drug-related DUI cases handled by the Arizona Department of Public Safety rose from about 4,400 in 1999 to more than 14,700 last year, an increase of more than 230 percent. The state's population in that period rose about 38 percent.
