Student Athlete Drug Testing
Today in the United States drug use is rising and is becoming an increasing problem. Due to this, many school officials have made their student athletes take mandatory random drug tests. This strategy has been proven to fail in various situations and has also been proven to be very costly with no definite effects. Therefore, no testing of this kind should be permitted in any high school in the United States. Many people disagree and believe that the testing of high school athletes results in huge benefits. They believe one of the advantages would include decreasing the amount of drug use among high school students. Another advantage would be officials promoting fair play in athletics. With these and various other arguments, many people have sided with taking mandatory drug tests. These people fail to acknowledge the fact that over seventy-nine percent of high school students that use drugs aren't active in athletics (Cato Journal, vol. 16, p 14). By this athletic drug testing, the school officials are targeting the wrong students. Testing for drugs sends a mixed message to students. It may send the message to studen
Another downfall of this process is the costly effect. These tests cost twenty to fifty dollars, which doesn't include tobacco, alcohol, LSD, or anabolic steroids. There is an extra fee of ten dollars for each of these except anabolic steroids. The anabolic steroid test, which includes all of the above, can cost from eighty to one hundred and twenty dollars (htpp://www.scvleon.com/signal/lw100197.htm). Janesville's Random Drug Teting Costly. Beloit Daily News. July 1998. (http://www.beloitdaily news.com/798/jane16.htm). Drug Testing in School Activities. Coaches Guide to Drugs and Sport. September, 1998. (http://www.nfhs.org/page 4.htm). "that the New Jersey Constitution required some reasonable, individual suspicion prior to forced drug testing, and that state statutes governing drug testing of students prohibited the random drug testing adopted by the Board of Education..."
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