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[9-5] DRIVING DANGERS: DREAM RIDE
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): This year, Americans will [1]fill about 60 million prescriptions for sleeping pills, including Ambien, the drug that made headlines last month when Kerry Kennedy [2]crashed her car on a highway. Did you know that some sleeping pills can [3]stay in your body for as long as 12 hours? So, we wondered, when is it safe to drive? We wanted to [4]see it firsthand and tonight, ABC's Lisa Stark [5]takes a groundbreaking test.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS) (VO): You are looking at the first test of its kind ever done in the US.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(OC): [6]I drifted off there for a second.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(VO): I'm [7]in a driving simulator, [8]swerving all over the road, nearly hitting a pedestrian, barely keeping my eyes open.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(OC): Ah.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(VO): I'm not drunk. [9]I'm testing another type of impairment, [10]driving on the nation's most popular sleeping pill, Ambien, and [11]its generic version Zolpidem. There are cases all over the country, those who [12]pop the pill on the way home, or try to drive too soon. And perhaps the most terrifying of all…
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(VO): This New Jersey woman had no idea she was even driving. She had taken Ambien and alcohol, gone to bed, ended up on the road, [13]a frightening case of sleep driving.
OFFICER (NEW JERSEY): You hit something with your car.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(VO): With 60 million annual prescriptions for sleeping pills in the US, there's increasing concern. That's what brought us to the University of Iowa and [14]the nation's most sophisticated driving simulator. Researchers watch my every move.
OMAR AHMAD (NATIONAL ADVANCED DRIVING SIMULATOR): We can see the speed of your vehicle. We have cameras pointed at your eyes and we're [15]tracking the movement of your pupils.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(OC): Big moment, take my sleeping pill.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(VO): The drug is designed to [16]act fast, very fast.
OMAR AHMAD (NATIONAL ADVANCED DRIVING SIMULATOR): So it's been a little over 30 minutes since Lisa took the medicine.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(VO): Only 30 minutes.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(OC): I'm a little dizzy, but I think I can do it.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(VO): I'm wrong.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(OC): Am I on the wrong side of the road?
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(VO): I'm awake enough to know something's not right, but I can't help swerving all over the road.
OMAR AHMAD (NATIONAL ADVANCED DRIVING SIMULATOR): So this is very dangerous.
DOCTOR SUSAN CHRYSLER (NATIONAL ADVANCED DRIVING SIMULATOR): She's really [17]stopped blinking.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(VO): An indication my brain thinks I'm asleep and that I don't need to blink.
DOCTOR SUSAN CHRYSLER (NATIONAL ADVANCED DRIVING SIMULATOR): She's really just [18]zoned out. [19]She's sort of in la-la land.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(VO): After a nap, [20]the maximum Ambien stupor, 90 minutes in, I try again.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(OC): I just fell asleep. I like totally just fell asleep for a second.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(VO): When I tried to make a turn…
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(OC): That wasn't so good a turn.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(VO): And then I [21]smash into a big rig.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(OC): Oh.
OMAR AHMAD (NATIONAL ADVANCED DRIVING SIMULATOR): Whoa. If she was in a real car, this would be the end.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(OC): That was like [22]being in never-never land.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(VO): At four hours, two-thirds of the drug gone, I think I'm okay.
OMAR AHMAD (NATIONAL ADVANCED DRIVING SIMULATOR): Put on your seatbelt.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(OC): Okay.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(VO): But see this red light, right through it.
OMAR AHMAD (NATIONAL ADVANCED DRIVING SIMULATOR): People who are impaired don't necessarily know how impaired they are. So they may think they are driving fine but they're not.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(VO): And remember the woman who never realized she was behind the wheel? I drove three times impaired but recalled only two. And the minute the car was turned off, I was out like a light.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(OC): Now, the pill's developer says it stands behind the safety of Ambien when taken as directed. And there is a clear warning on the drug to make sure you get a full seven or eight hours sleep. But [23]the pill doesn't really clear your system entirely for a good 12 hours. So Diane, the label also warns not to drive until you fell fully awake.
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): Fully awake. But what about these cases of people who didn't even know they were driving? What's behind that?
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(VO): Well, what the manufacturer says is that they're abusing the drugs. That they're drinking, they're using alcohol with it. They're taking too many pills. And it can happen with any sleeping pill. You have to be very careful.
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): But you didn't remember one time you took the test?
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(OC): They told me [24]I took four drives. I didn't believe it. But apparently I did.
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): All right. Lisa Stark awake and alert tonight.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(OC): Yes.
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): Thanks so much for that.
LISA STARK (ABC NEWS)(OC): Thank you.
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): Eye-opening.
[1] 약 6천만 건의 수면제 처방을 받는다
[2] 하이웨이에서 자기 차량 충돌 사고를 냈다
[3] 무려 12시간 동안 체내에 잔류한다
[4] 직접 확인하다
[5] 사상 초유의 테스트를 하다
[6] 저기에서 잠깐 경로를 벗어났어요
[7] 주행 시뮬레이터에 있다
[8] 도로 전체에서 방향을 마구 틀다
[9] 또 다른 종류의 장애를 테스트하고 있다
[10] 우리 나라에서 가장 상용되는 수면제를 먹고 운전하기
[11] (Ambien의) 일반의약품인 졸피뎀
[12] 집에 오는 중에 그 약을 먹다
[13] 아주 무서운 졸음 운전 상황
[14] 미국에서 가장 최첨단인 주행 시뮬레이터
[15] 동공의 움직임을 추적하다
[16] 빠른 효과를 보이다
[17] 눈 깜빡임을 중단했다
[18] 잠이 들었다
[19] 일종의 꿈나라에 있는 것이다
[20] 앰비엔으로 인해 가장 혼미한 상태
[21] 대형 트럭에 충돌하다
[22] 꿈의 나라, 즉 의식이 없는 상태가 되다
[23] 앰비엔은 족히 12시간 동안은 의식을 완전히 회복시키지 않는다
[24] 네 차례 주행했다
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