Driving While Ability Impaired By Drugs (DWAID)

Driving While Ability Impaired by Drugs (DWAID):

This arrest and charge differs from a DWI. Typically, law enforcement is alleging that your ability to operate a motor vehicle safely is ‘Impaired’ by drugs. The drugs can be legal, such as prescription drugs administered or prescribed by a physician, or illegal (e.g., a narcotic drug such as heroin or cocaine.) There is no per se threshold amount in the law with drugs (i.e., such as the .08% that exists with alcohol.).Therefore, with a DWAID allegation, the officer only needs to demonstrate that probable cause existed to believe you were “Impaired” by drugs, not Intoxicated. Unlike with a DWI arrest, the court does not take or physically seize your driver’s license at arraignment when you are charged with Driving While Ability Impaired Drugs (DWAID).

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