Efforts To Understand the Nation’s Drugged Driving Problem Stall Under Trump By Jace DiCola May 19, 2026

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/drugged-driving-impairment-research-stalled-trump-policies/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_si58uacm5zjVFggfqdweB9XgMHsslqzmd7grERdzXzlVvzbgYymUcTqz95mEz6swCgHOzHIOR-lPzaKkDaT-oCPycEQ&_hsmi=419442247&utm_content=419442247&utm_source=hs_email KFF Health News: Efforts To Understand The Nation’s Drugged Driving Problem Stall Under Trump Two state transportation workers were replacing a sign on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 6 in western Colorado one morning when a Jeep Grand Cherokee swerved off the road and struck them. The workers, Nathan Jones and Trent Umberger, died in the September 2024 crash, as did a passenger in the Jeep. Tests found that the driver, Patrick Sneddon, then 59, had oxycodone and six times Colorado’s presumed impairment threshold for THC — the psychoactive compound in cannabis — in his blood. He pleaded guilty and is serving 30 years in prison on three counts of vehicular homicide and other charges. (DiCola, 5/19)