At a meeting of the Nation's top drug regulators and driving safety experts, researchers warned that cold, allergy, and anxiety medications may impair drivers. Investigators suggest that such drugs may slow users' reaction times even though they don't feel tired.
Nevertheless, doctors rarely warn against driving while taking prescription or over-the-counter drugs, and a list of such impairing medications doesn't exist. For now, users will have to settle for fine-print warnings on some over-the-counter medications.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) claims that since 1987 more than 150 accidents were at least partially caused by the effects of cold, allergy, and anxiety medications. 72 of these accidents were fatal.