Drugs and driving — Wyoming Permit Test
Drugs and driving on the Wyoming permit test — 4 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Diet and stay-awake pills give drivers a false feeling of alertness and often increase self-confidence, which may lead to excessive risk-taking.
A driver who feels alert but is really exhausted takes risks they cannot handle.
give drivers a false feeling of alertness and often increase self-confidence, which may lead to excessive risk-taking.
Allergy pills and cold remedies can cause a person to become sleepy and impair the ability to think clearly.
An ordinary cold pill can make a driver drowsy enough to drift out of the lane.
They can cause a person to become sleepy and impair a person’s ability to think clearly.
Be cautious of new medicines: do not drive until you are certain they will not impair your driving.
Each body reacts differently to a new medicine, and the road is the wrong place to find out.
Do not drive until you are certain that they will not impair your driving.
Driving While Under the Influence of any controlled drug is not legal, and you may be charged and convicted of DWUI.
Drugs can impair a driver as badly as alcohol, so the same law covers them.
You should know that Driving While Under the Influence of any controlled drug is not legal.
On the test
What do stay-awake pills often do to drivers?
Give a false feeling of alertness. A driver who feels alert but is really exhausted takes risks they cannot handle. Wyoming Rules of the Road Driver License Manual, p.37: “give drivers a false feeling of alertness and often increase self-confidence, which may lead to excessive risk-taking.”
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Wyoming Rules of the Road Driver License Manual, published by the Wyoming Department of Transportation, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-04.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/WY.pdf (Wyoming Rules of the Road Driver License Manual, August 2021, Wyoming Department of Transportation, Driver Services Program, retrieved 2026-09-14 and re-checked 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/WY.pages.txt (the plain pdftotext fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/WY-exam.html (045-1 Wyo. Code R. 1-11, WYDOT Rules Chapter 1 Section 11, as reproduced by the Legal Information Institute, retrieved 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json under examSource)
- https://wyoleg.gov/arules/2012/rules/ARR24-032.pdf (the department's 2024 filing of Chapter 1; Section 11(b)(ii): "A minimum grade of 80 percent shall be required to pass the knowledge test.")
- https://www.dot.state.wy.us/home/driver_license_records/driver-license/testing.html (read 2026-10-04; describes the written test, states no count or mark)
- https://www.dot.state.wy.us/home/driver_license_records/formsapplications/driver-manuals.html (read 2026-10-04; links the manual)