Comments on: Fitness for Duty Summit highlights cannabis impairment tests and tools /dcn/news/ohs/2018/10/fitness-duty-summit-highlights-cannabis-impairment-tests-tools Canada's construction news Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:04:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.3 By: Michael Milburn /dcn/news/ohs/2018/10/fitness-duty-summit-highlights-cannabis-impairment-tests-tools#comment-2853 Wed, 10 Oct 2018 21:26:59 +0000 /?p=178301#comment-2853 I have developed a new public health app that is a general measure of impairment from cannabis or any source–anything that impairs reaction time, hand-eye coordination, balance and the ability to perform divided attention tasks–it is called DRUID (an acronym for “DRiving Under the Influence of Drugs”) available now in the App Store and in Google Play. DRUID statistically integrates hundreds of data points into an overall impairment score and takes just 2 minutes. Our website is

DRUID allows cannabis users (or others who drink alcohol, use prescription drugs, etc.) to self-assess their own level of impairment and (hopefully) decide against driving if they are impaired. Prior to DRUID, there was no way for an individual to accurately assess their own level of impairment.

After obtaining my Ph.D. at Harvard, I have been a professor of psychology at UMass/Boston for the past 40 years, specializing in research methods, measurement and statistics.

Michael Milburn, Professor
Department of Psychology
UMass/Boston

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