Transcript David McDonald presentation – ppt

David McDonald
Barriers and Facilitators to Translating
Research on Drug Driving Thresholds
into the Australian context
Basic Priority Rating Model
– The size of the problem, usually based on incidence or
prevalence rates;
– The seriousness of the problem, usually based on its
urgency, severity, economic loss and impact on others;
– The effectiveness of interventions available to address the
problem; and
– Other environmental factors including propriety,
economics, acceptability, legality of solutions and
availability of resources.
Drug Driving Thresholds
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Are non-zero per se drug driving laws that set drug quantity thresholds for the
drug driving offence justifiable (based on the science) and practicable in the ACT
context?
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To what extent does it matter to the ACT that the states and the NT have a zerotolerance per se legislation approach to drug driving?
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Would non-zero per se thresholds remove the disparity in penalties between drink
driving and drug driving?
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What psychoactive substances would be included in a non-zero tolerance risk
threshold based system?
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Are testing levels high enough to provide meaningful data and to have a
sufficiently strong deterrent effect as to improve road safety at the population
level?