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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This strikes me as a little different than drunk driving.  If she was given a drug and had an adverse reaction….that’s different than choosing to drink and drive.  I had a family member have an adverse reaction to an meds for dental surgery — they suddenly were trying to jump out of a moving car and hit someone.  The nicest person—it was just a weird drug reaction made them suddenly manically depressive and paranoid. 
I hope they gave her an immediate tox screen so we can know if the “given a weird drug” story has any basis.  She may have gotten weed that was heavily laced with fetanyl, unknown to her, and it induced psychosis.  [/quote]
The “I” in DUI stands for intoxicated. Doesn’t matter if it’s from drugs (including prescription drugs) or alcohol.

My understanding is that DUI does include an intent standard, but normally it’s about intent to drive a vehicle not intent to get intoxicated. I would presume that if you were unintentionally intoxicated, for example roofied, the law wouldn’t necessarily save you but prosecutorial discretion would, considering that your intoxicated state was the result of you being a victim of a separate crime.

Intentionally ingesting drugs then driving is DUI all day long. Even if you didn’t know what drugs you were ingesting.  [/quote]

I thought DUI meant Driving Under the Influence[/quote]

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