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Several years ago Judy Hazlett gave a speech at the Annual Parkinson's Conference in London, Ontario, about how she had worked on the development of a presentation for the Toronto Police Department about Parkinson's and its effects upon automobile drivers. At the time I thought it a great idea, and I offered to help spread the presentation over Canada and the U.S.A. We never did get together on it, and I have no idea as to whether or not anything more has been done as far as spreading the presentation beyond the Toronto area. If we could use some of Judy's experience as a guideline, perhaps we would not have to "reinvent the wheel" all over the world. Art At 12:00 PM 8/13/2006, Arnie wrote: >I support the idea of training police about PD. > >I had an experience about a month ago, when the police pulled me >over for weaving among lanes and thought I was drunk. (I had >been having problems with daytime and evening sleepiness and was >apparently dozing off for a few seconds at a time without being >aware of it. My neurologist has since prescribed Provigil, which >seems to do a good job of keeping me alert.) > >What's relevant here is that the officers kept on asking me how >long it had been since I had taken my medication, apparently >going on an alcohol-based model that you're intoxicated for a few >hours after taking a drink. I explained that the medication made >me better, not worse, but it did not seem to register. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn