CdwJava
Senior Member
Ambien can also be impairing according to this article from the Journal of Forensic Sciences:
http://breathtest.wsp.wa.gov/SupportDocs\DRE_Forms\publications\drug\Zolpidem and Driving Impairment.pdf
And, according to the PDR people taking zolpidem may experience effects similar to those associated with alcohol. This is, of course, why impairment would have to be shown at court. Memory loss by itself should not be sufficient to prove impairment. I suspect there is something more to this that the officer or witnesses put in the report, and that is what the DA read.
- Carl
http://breathtest.wsp.wa.gov/SupportDocs\DRE_Forms\publications\drug\Zolpidem and Driving Impairment.pdf
And, according to the PDR people taking zolpidem may experience effects similar to those associated with alcohol. This is, of course, why impairment would have to be shown at court. Memory loss by itself should not be sufficient to prove impairment. I suspect there is something more to this that the officer or witnesses put in the report, and that is what the DA read.
- Carl