Drugs and Alcohol

Racing Welfare

Information and support
www.racingwelfare.co.uk
t. 0800 6300 443

 

RaceWISE

Confidential Reporting Line
t. 0800 0852 580

Professional Jockeys Association

Information and support
www.thepja.co.uk
t. 0844 800 6873

 

BHA Medical Department

Information and support
t. 020 7152 0000

Public contact and helplines

Talk to Frank

Info and support
www.talktofrank.com
t. 0300 123 6600

Know the Score

Info and support
www.knowthescore.info
t. 0800 587 5879

DrugWise

Evidence based drugs info
www.drugwise.org.uk

Global Drug Survey

World’s biggest drug survey
www.globaldrugsurvey.com

Mental Health Services

www.mentalhealth-uk.org

Mentor UK

Children and young people
www.mentoruk.org.uk

Narcotics Anonymous

Recovery group
www.ukna.org
t. 0300 999 1212

NEPTUNE

Novel Psychoactive Substances
www.neptune-clinical-guidance.co.uk

Release

Drugs and the law
www.release.org.uk
t. 020 7324 2989
[email protected]

 

 

  • Impaired coordination and judgement
  • Lack of awareness of the surroundings
  • Increased sense of well-being
  • Impaired ability to self-appraise
  • Tiredness: liability to sleep
  • Impaired reaction time
  • Impaired ability to multi-task
  • Reduced blood sugar levels resulting in hunger
  • Dilated peripheral blood vessels
  • Reduced body temperature
  • Increased urine flow
  • Reduced auditory threshold
  • Narrowed auditory range
  • Short term memory
  • Impaired vision
  • Willingness to take unnecessary risks
  • Inability to recognise danger

Alcohol and drugs have a vast number of effects on the body. These substances can also have specific effects when driving, which can be particularly potent. Alcohol and drugs always impair driving performance and this should be remembered when driving to/from the yard or racecourse.

  • Reduced ability to assess speed
  • Reduced ability to judge distance
  • Reduced ability to judge the width of gaps
  • Reduced ability to assess the braking distance
  • Reduced ability to ‘multitask’
  • Loss of concentration, even on a single task
  • Extended reaction time
  • Liability to sleep
  • Impaired self-judgement of driving capability and performance
  • Increased sense of well-being, failure to recognise danger, increased risk taking.

DO:

  • Keep calm
  • Get help
  • Call 999
  • Give as much information as possible including location, age, gender, what has happened and what they have taken
  • Stay with the casualty and reassure them
  • Be honest with medical staff and hand over any packets or paraphernalia
  • If unconscious put in the recovery position (or on their side)
  • If they stop breathing perform CPR (chest compressions)

DO NOT:

  • Leave them alone
  • Inflict excessive pain to wake them
  • Give them stimulants or any other drug
  • Give them anything to eat or drink (apart from small sips of water)
  • Put them in a bath/shower
  • Walk them about
  • Attempt to restrain them

Useful downloads

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