Efforts To Understand the Nation’s Drugged Driving Problem Stall Under Trump

Two state transportation workers died in a crash caused by a driver under the influence of oxycodone and THC, highlighting the nation's drugged driving problem. The Trump administration's cuts to the federal workforce have slowed efforts to expand and improve tracking of impaired-driving deaths. Nearly half of Mesa County's traffic deaths from 2017 to 2024 involved a driver intoxicated with alcohol, drugs, or a combination.