What kinds of drugs, other than alcohol, can affect your driving ability?
- An allergy medicine
- Marijuana
- A cold remedy
- All of these choices ✓
Answer: D. All of these choices
The answer is all of these choices: allergy medicine, marijuana, and cold remedies can affect your driving ability.
Why this is the answer
The handbook groups prescription and over-the-counter medications with illegal substances as drugs that can change your ability to drive. It specifically tells you to check the label on a cold or allergy remedy and says marijuana/cannabis is included among drugs that can impair driving. Because each listed item falls within that warning, the complete answer is all of these choices, not just one of them.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. An allergy medicine — Choosing only an allergy medicine misses that the handbook also warns about cold remedies and marijuana/cannabis as drugs that can affect driving.
- B. Marijuana — Choosing only marijuana misses that over-the-counter cold and allergy remedies are also named as drugs that can affect your driving.
- C. A cold remedy — Choosing only a cold remedy misses that allergy medicine and marijuana/cannabis are also covered by the same warning.
Remember it
Memory hook: medicine, remedy, drug — check before you drive.