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Legally, just what is "drunk driving?":
A drunk driving offense, sometimes called driving while intoxicated DWI or driving under the influence DUI, really has three general meanings:

• Driving with any amount of alcohol in your system that causes your physical abilities to be impaired in any way.
• Driving with a level of alcohol in your system that amounts to a measurement of.08 of blood alcohol content. To be guilty of this offense, absolutely no impairment of any of your physical abilities is necessary. You may well be the world's most talented, careful and safest driver, but if your blood alcohol content registers .08 or above you are guilty of a criminal offense.
• Driving with drugs in your system or with a combination of drugs and alcohol, no matter what the amounts of those substances may be, where your physical abilities have become impaired in any way.

It does not matter if the drugs are legal, over the counter medications like antihistamines, nor does it matter if you have a prescription to take the drugs. If you are impaired as a result of taking them, then you are guilty of a criminal offense.

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