Topic 6 · Alcohol, Drugs, and Driving (DUI Laws)
What effect do painkillers (opioids) have on driving?
- Improve reaction time
- No effect
- Can cause drowsiness and clouded thinking — correct answer
Why
Opioids cause drowsiness and cloudy thinking. They support a DUI charge exactly as alcohol does, prescription or not.
Practise this in the real format
Reading one answer is not the same as sitting the test. The simulator runs the first-time adult form: 36 questions, 6 mistakes allowed, 83% to pass.
Source: California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, rev. 6/2025), the document the DMV writes the real test from. Edited by Fernando Aguilera. Aprobify is not affiliated with the California DMV.
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