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Alcohol, drugs and fatigueQuestion 246 of 296

You take a medicine that can affect your driving. What is the danger of also drinking alcohol?

  1. The alcohol makes the medicine work faster and safer
  2. The alcohol has no effect on the medicine
  3. The medicine removes the alcohol from your blood
  4. The two together can cause serious impairment
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Correct answer: The two together can cause serious impairment

Alcohol together with a drug or medicine can cause serious impairment. Do not drink when you take a medicine that can affect your driving.

Source: Nova Scotia Driver's Handbook (Service Nova Scotia, 2000, reprinted with revisions to 2017), Chapter 6, Driving and Impairment: Drug impairment, page 155

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Questions last reviewed: 18 October 2026