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Mandatory Drug Testing in Schools

Drug use is a major problem in the United States. In surveys conducted by reliable agencies, more than 80% adults confessed to using at least low power drugs like marijuana during their school and college days. And about 17% admitted using more potent drugs like cocaine in their student days. The problem starts in schools. Their friends and acquaintances introduce students to this vice. Peer pressure ensures that students use these drugs for the first time. Usually drugs are promoted as a practice of tough grown ups. This is quite enough to attract most teenagers to pass drug test. And since drugs are addictive, using them once makes the user use them again and again. Furthermore, they move on to more and more potent drugs.

Existing laws in the United States permit the random drug testing of those students who fall in the category of “cause or suspicion”. Also a minor student can be tested randomly only if their parents provide a written consent for the same. Drug tests are known to have a discouraging effect on those who use drugs or those who contemplate using drugs. The vices of drug consumption are many. It affects performance and encourages escapism instead of confronting problems. Drug use can make the user aggressive and violent, endangering his family and close friends. In future these students can resort to robberies to finance their drug use. The most potent vice is that the demand for drugs triggers the illegal activities of drug cartels. All these vices can be limited by the deterrence of drug tests. And it is always better to stop them from using drugs at the beginning, when the chances for rectification are much greater.

The other side of the debate revolves around the privacy of the individual. Drug tests, especially random ones, are seen as a gross violation of the private life of students. Students also see this as a start of the process of checking more and more aspects of their private lives – give them an inch and they will take the mile. Those opposing tests also point to the lack of evidence regarding the deterrent effect of drug tests. Whatever might be the pros and cons of random drug testing, the objective is good. A middle path on this issue can be allowing drug test for all students with prior notice. And for the same period students can be kept under loose observation to prevent them from trying to cheat in the test by taking drug test pass pills.