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Drug Testing Cracks Down On Users. - 0 views

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    "Drug Testing Cracks Down On Users." Highlands Today (Sebring, FL). (June 9, 2007): NA. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EAST. 26 Mar. 2010 .
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$183,289 for school drug tests. - 0 views

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    Marshall, Tom. "$183,289 for school drug tests." The St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, FL). (Oct 5, 2006): 1. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EAST. 26 Mar. 2010 .
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Drug Testing Violates Students' Privacy - 1 views

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    Peter Cassidy. "Drug Testing Violates Students' Privacy." Opposing Viewpoints: Privacy. Ed. Jamuna Carroll. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2006. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EAST. 26 Mar. 2010 .
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Student Drug Testing Programs Are Ineffective and Harmful - 0 views

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  • The Harms of Random Student Drug Testing Studies have shown that students exhibit greater negative attitudes toward school in districts that have implemented random student drug testing. This is because random drug testing undermines the trust between pupils and staff in an educational setting, a consequence that may impact negatively on other aspects of students' educational work. Rather than presuming our school children innocent of illicit activity—as most of them are—suspicionless drug testing presumes them guilty until they prove themselves innocent. Is this the message we wish to send to our young people: that we don't trust them?
  • According to a 2005 report by Britain's distinguished Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a perverse and unintended consequence of random student drug testing is that it may "encourage some pupils to switch from the use of cannabis and other substances that can be traced a relatively long time after use, to drugs that are cleared from the body much more quickly," including alcohol and more dangerous drugs like cocaine and heroin.
  • Suspicionless drug testing targets primarily those students who are least likely to be using illicit drugs—those engaged in extracurricular activities—while at the same time creating a barrier for at-risk students who would benefit from participating in such activities, but may decline to do so out of fear of taking a drug test.
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  • According to Dr. Howard Taras, chair of the Committee on School Health for the American Academy of Pediatrics, "[Random drug] screening may decrease involvement in extracurricular activities among students who regularly use or have once used drugs. Without such engagement in healthy activities, adolescents are more likely to drop out of school, become pregnant, join gangs, pursue substance abuse, and engage in other risky behavior." As a result, numerous health organizations—including the National Education Association, the American Public Health Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence—oppose policies that would mandate randomly drug testing pupils who want to participate in after-school programs.
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    National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. "Student Drug Testing Programs Are Ineffective and Harmful." Opposing Viewpoints: School Policies. Ed. Jamuna Carroll. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2008. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EAST. 26 Mar. 2010 .
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