opioids

Opioid-specific driving impairment: morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone, fentanyl, methadone, buprenorphine, and heroin — opioid analgesics and illicit opioids causing sedation, slowed reaction, and respiratory/CNS depression at the wheel. This tag claims the opioid drug class specifically, pulling opioids OUT of prescription_meds (which covers non-opioid sedating prescriptions) and out of illicit_drugs (non-opioid illegal drugs); distinct from alcohol and cannabis.

72 paper(s) · ranked by relevance to this topic

1. Schedule II Opioids and Stimulants & CMV Crash Risk and Driver Performance: Evidence Report and Systematic Review · 2014 · Brittle, Christine et al. · archived
2. Review of Selected 2-Phenylethylamine Derivatives and Opioids, Systematic Review of Their Effects on Psychomotor Abilities and Driving Performance: Psychopharmacology in the Context of Road Safety ↗ · 2025 · Żełabowski, Kacper et al. · indexed
3. Opioid dependence and driving ability: a review in the context of proposed legislative change in Victoria ↗ · 2000 · LENNÉ, MICHAEL G. et al. · indexed
4. A Framework for “Driving Under the Influenceof Drugs” Policy for the Opioid Using Driver ↗ · 2012 · Wilhelmi, Brian G. · indexed
5. The Effect of Opioids on Driving and Psychomotor Performance in Patients With Chronic Pain ↗ · 2005 · Byas‐Smith, Michael G. et al. · indexed
6. The impact of therapeutic opioid agonists on driving-related psychomotor skills assessed by a driving simulator or an on-road driving task: A systematic review ↗ · 2018 · Ferreira, Diana H et al. · indexed
7. I107. OPIOIDS AND DRIVING ↗ · 2017 · Searle, Rob · indexed
8. Maintenance Therapy with Synthetic Opioids and Driving Aptitude ↗ · 2004 · Schindler, Shird‐Dieter et al. · indexed
9. The association between opioid analgesics and unsafe driving actions preceding fatal crashes ↗ · 2009 · Dubois, Sacha et al. · indexed
10. The effects of the opioid pharmacotherapies methadone, LAAM and buprenorphine, alone and in combination with alcohol, on simulated driving ↗ · 2003 · Lenné, Michael G. et al. · indexed
11. Evaluating Drugged Driving: Effects of Pain and Anxiety Medications · 2017 · Gaffney, Gary R. et al. · archived
12. Evidence Report: Licit Schedule II Drug Use and Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Safety (Comprehensive Review) · 2006 · NHTSA · archived
13. Self-Reported Opioid Use and Driving Outcomes among Older Adults: The AAA LongROAD Study · 2020 · Betz, Marian E. et al. · archived
14. Road traffic crashes and prescribed methadone and buprenorphine: A french registry-based case–control study · 2012 · Corsenac, Philippe et al. · archived
15. Drugs and Human Performance Fact Sheets: 2024 · 2024 · Couper, Fiona J. et al. · archived
16. Driving functions in a video simulator in chronic non‐malignant pain patients using and not using codeine ↗ · 2010 · Nilsenl, Halvard K. et al. · indexed
17. State of Knowledge of Drug-Impaired Driving · 2003 · Jones, R. K. (Ralph K.) et al. · archived
18. Do Drowsy Driver Drugs Differ? ↗ · 2015 · Brown, Timothy et al. · indexed
19. Effects of Opioids on Driving Ability ↗ · 2000 · Galski, Thomas et al. · indexed
20. Differential effects of stimulant versus opiate drugs on driving performance ↗ · 2020 · Tabibi, Zahra et al. · indexed
21. Drugs and Human Performance Fact Sheets [2014] · 2014 · Couper, Fiona J. et al. · archived
22. Drugs and Human Performance Fact Sheets [2004] · 2004 · Couper, Fiona J. et al. · archived
23. Countermeasures Against Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drug-Impaired Driving · 2018 · AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety · archived
24. Analgesics and road traffic crashes in senior drivers: An epidemiological review and explorative meta-analysis on opioids ↗ · 2013 · Monárrez-Espino, Joel et al. · indexed
25. Drugged Driving Expert Panel Report: A Consensus Protocol for Assessing the Potential of Drugs to Impair Driving · 2011 · Logan, Barry K. et al. · archived
26. Pharmacists’ Role in Road Safety: A Qualitative Study on Driving While Using Prescribed Opioids ↗ · 2025 · Lee, Michael Joseph et al. · indexed
27. Benzodiazepines, opioids and driving: An overview of the experimental research ↗ · 2011 · LEUNG, STEFANIE Y. · indexed
28. Drug driving, sedation, reaction time and blood levels: a prescriber’s approach to the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Act 2022 ↗ · 2025 · van Oeveren, Marleen et al. · indexed
29. Driving communication forward: improving communication for palliative care patients around driving and opioids – a quality improvement report ↗ · 2023 · Ismail-Callaghan, Seline et al. · indexed
30. Effects of three therapeutic doses of codeine/paracetamol on driving performance, a psychomotor vigilance test, and subjective feelings ↗ · 2013 · Amato, Jean-Noël et al. · indexed
31. 134 Acute effects of methadone, buprenorphine or naltrexone on sleep-like parameters evaluated with actigraphy in male rhesus monkeys ↗ · 2021 · Berro, Lais et al. · indexed
32. Driving under the influence of opioids among high school students in Atlantic Canada: Prevalence, correlates, and the role of medical versus recreational consumption ↗ · 2015 · Asbridge, Mark et al. · indexed
33. The effects of psychoactive prescription drugs on driving. ↗ · 2017 · Beirness, DJ · indexed
34. Do Opioid Prescriptions Lead to Fatal Car Crashes? ↗ · 2021 · Betz, Michael et al. · indexed
35. Drugs and Driving: A Research Review · 1977 · Joscelyn, Kent B. et al. · archived
36. Use of Controlled Substances and Highway Safety: A Report to Congress · 1988 · Compton, Richard P. · archived
37. Medications and Impaired Driving ↗ · 2014 · Hetland, Amanda et al. · indexed
38. Drugs, driving and the law : a report to the governor and General Assembly of Virginia. · 1973 · Lorman, Alvin J · archived
39. Drugs and driving ↗ · 2006 · Gull, David G et al. · indexed
40. Driving Simulator Performance After Administration of Analgesic Doses of Ketamine With Dexmedetomidine or Fentanyl ↗ · 2019 · Hayley, Amie C. et al. · indexed
41. Drug Abuse and Driving Performance · 1972 · Blomberg, Richard D. et al. · archived
42. Drug Use and Highway Safety: A Review of the Literature · 1971 · Nichols, James L. · archived
43. Drugs and Driving: Information Needs and Research Requirements · 1979 · Joscelyn, Kent B. et al. · archived
44. The Effects of Transdermal Fentanyl on Driving, Cognitive Performance, and Balance in Patients with Chronic Nonmalignant Pain Conditions ↗ · 2004 · Menefee, Lynette A. et al. · indexed
45. Use of Potentially Impairing Medications in Relation to Driving, United States, 2021 · 2022 · AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety · archived
46. A review of drug use and driving: epidemiology, impairment, risk factors and risk perceptions ↗ · 2004 · KELLY, ERIN et al. · indexed
47. Drugs and Driving: A Selected Bibliography: Supplement One · 1978 · Joscelyn, Kent B. et al. · archived
48. Drug Research Methodology. Volume 5, Experimentation in Drugs and Highway Safety: The Study of Drug Effects on Skills Related to Driving · 1980 · Joscelyn, Kent B. et al. · archived
49. Driving Under the Influence, Public Policy, and Pharmacy Practice ↗ · 2014 · Sigona, Nicholas et al. · indexed
50. Prescription medication use and crash risk: taking responsibility for a new global challenge ↗ · 2021 · Downey, Luke A et al. · indexed
51. A Pilot Study to Test Multiple Medication Usage and Driving Functioning · 2008 · Staplin, L. K. et al. · archived
52. Concentration Ratios of Morphine to Codeine in Blood of Impaired Drivers as Evidence of Heroin Use and not Medication with Codeine ↗ · 2001 · Ceder, G. et al. · indexed
53. Drug Effects on Driving Performance ↗ · 2000 · de Waard, Dick et al. · indexed
54. Medication use and driving patterns in older drivers: preliminary findings from the LongROAD study · 2020 · Hill, Linda L. et al. · archived
55. Psychoactive Medication and Traffic Safety ↗ · 2009 · Verster, Joris C. et al. · indexed
56. Evidence of Specific Cognitive Deficits inPatients with Chronic Low Back Pain underLong-Term Substitution Treatment of Opioids ↗ · 2014 · Wang, Haili · indexed
57. Antihistamines and Driving-Related Behavior: A Review of the Evidence for Impairment · 2004 · Moskowitz, Herbert, 1925- · archived
58. A scoping review of motor vehicle operator performance assessments for benzodiazepine receptor agonists ↗ · 2024 · Murphy, Andrea et al. · indexed
59. An Analysis of Driving Performance Measures Used to Assess the Effects of Medications on Drowsiness, Sedation and Driving Impairment ↗ · 2001 · Watson, Ginger S et al. · indexed
60. The acute effects of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine and methamphetamine on driving: A simulator study ↗ · 2012 · Stough, Con et al. · indexed
61. Thirty Years of Dutch Drugs and Driving Research: Strengths and Limitations of the On-The-Road Highway Driving Test and Future Challenges ↗ · 2012 · C. Verster, Joris et al. · indexed
62. How to measure driving ability under the influence of alcohol and drugs, and why ↗ · 1998 · Brookhuis, K. · indexed
63. 2013–2014 National Roadside Study of Alcohol and Drug Use by Drivers: Drug Results · 2017 · Kelley-Baker, Tara et al. · archived
64. Relationship Between Patients Dispensed Prescription Opioids, Opioid Treatment Admissions and Overdose Deaths: 2006-2018 and Beyond ↗ · 2025 · Aubry, Larry et al. · indexed
65. Sustained Attention in Methadone Patients ↗ · 1982 · Appel, Philip W. · indexed
66. Opioid use disorder in Germany: healthcare costs of patients in opioid maintenance treatment ↗ · 2019 · Reimer, Jens et al. · indexed
67. Morphine-Induced Reduction of Intraocular Pressure and Pupil Diameter: Role of Nitric Oxide ↗ · 2006 · Dortch-Carnes, Juanita et al. · indexed
68. Doctors to Blame or Not to Blame? Patients to Suffer or Not to Suffer? These Are the Questions ↗ · 2026 · Haddadan MD, Kayvan et al. · indexed
69. Expectations and communication in opioid pain management: a qualitative study of patients' experience ↗ · 2026 · Amin, Jennifer R. et al. · indexed
70. 56 Pilot study of syringe driver prescribing practice highlights challenges faced by non-palliative care teams ↗ · 2023 · Chase, Hannah et al. · indexed
71. Fumaric acid regulates morphine tolerance in bone cancer pain through spinal MrgC receptor modulation ↗ · 2026 · Liu, Sijie et al. · indexed
72. 3-D electrochemical degradation of water-borne tetracycline using red mud-derived CaFe2O4 particle electrode: Mechanisms and detoxification effects ↗ · 2026 · Rangappa, Harsha S et al. · indexed