{"id":10716,"date":"2015-03-09T13:09:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T13:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=10716"},"modified":"2015-03-09T13:09:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T13:09:23","slug":"one-in-half-drivers-test-positive-for-drugs-in-northern-grampians-drug-driving-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2015\/03\/one-in-half-drivers-test-positive-for-drugs-in-northern-grampians-drug-driving-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"One in half drivers test positive for drugs in Northern Grampians drug driving crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Grampians Highway Patrol said roughly one in two drivers tested positive for drugs like cannabis or methamphetamines.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Sergeant Shaun Allen said they were disappointed in the results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re certainly over-represented now in our statistics and especially in relation to serious collisions, we&#8217;re finding that more and more are positive in regards to drugs,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He is urging people not to get behind the wheel if they have been using drugs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We random drug test drivers and if they become positive with our tests, they get sent away for a proper laboratory test and then if it comes back then we prosecute on that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no level with drugs, you&#8217;ve either got them in your system or you haven&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/\u00a0\u00a0 Feb.2015<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Grampians Highway Patrol said roughly one in two drivers tested positive for drugs like cannabis or methamphetamines. Acting Sergeant Shaun Allen said they were disappointed in the results. &#8220;They&#8217;re certainly over-represented now in our statistics and especially in relation to serious collisions, we&#8217;re finding that more and more are positive in regards to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-effects-of-drugs","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}