Sunday, March 14, 2010

Driving While Medicated: 72 Percent of Older Drivers Have No Idea Their Meds Impair Driving

February 1, 2010 by Gia Zavala  
Filed under Health


(NaturalNews) Even though the vast majority of elderly drivers use one or more medications, few of them area aware of the effects that their drugs can have on driving performance, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Alabama-Birmingham and released as a report by the nonprofit AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. “That’s really scary,” said Peter Kissinger of the AAA Foundation. “The risks are real.” The researchers interviewed 630 drivers between the ages of 56 and 93, and found that 78 percent of them were taking one or more medications. Yet only 28 percent of the respondents knew of the potential risks from driving while medicated. Only 18 percent of those taking drugs especially known to impair driving ability — including ACE inhibitors, beta blockers and sedatives — had received warnings about the effects from their doctors or pharmacists. Health care workers yet “are not effectively communicating known risks,” Kissinger said. The researchers also found that awareness of the risks of …

Henry Kissinger New World Order 2007

November 16, 2009 by Gia Zavala  
Filed under New World Order


I caught Kissinger again on that show calling for a NWO, these are the only videos of Kissinger talking about it, I think.

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