Guida di veicoli e terapia con farmaci psicotropi (Art. 187 del Codice della Strada)

Autori

  • Luca Miceli Dipartimento di Anestesia e Rianimazione, Università degli Studi di Udine
  • Rym Bednarova Dipartimento di Medicina del Dolore e Cure Palliative, ASS 5 “Bassa Friulana”, Palmanova, Udine
  • Alessandro Rizzardo Dipartimento di Anestesia e Rianimazione, Università degli Studi di Udine
  • Giorgio Della Rocca Dipartimento di Anestesia e Rianimazione, Università degli Studi di Udine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7175/pmeal.v8i4.960

Parole chiave:

Driving, Psychotropic drugs, App Safedrive

Abstract

[Driving under influence of psychotropic drugs (Article 187 Italian Road Code)]

On March 15th 2010 is promulgated the law 30/2010 that stimulates the use of the opioids for pain therapy. After a few months the Italian Road Code is modified in the article 187, eliminating the necessity of a psychophysical evaluation from a physician to the drivers sanctioning in case of biological positiveness to the psychotropic substances.

The burden of such evaluation reverts so on the police that can be not able to perform such procedures.

The patients in therapy with opioids are therefore potentially discriminated despite that their driving performances are often best of who guide with pain without therapy or whose assumes benzodiazepines, psychotropic drugs enrolled in the same ministerial list together with opioids and illicit drugs.

The authors then describe the results of an APP from them invented in degree to perform such evaluations in an objective way, repeatable and "on the road", with the purpose of prevention of the road car crash and as a tool for the police during their controls.

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2014-11-28

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