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Survey: One In Five High Schools Drug Test Students
September 25, 2008 - Washington, DC
Washington, DC: An estimated one in five high schools and one in ten middle schools engage in some form of learner drug testing - including random testing, according to survey data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and published in the fall issue of Strategies for Success, a newsletter of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).
“Findings indicate that the number of schools conducting … physic testing may have being 4,000 - more than double the highest estimates cited previously,” the ONDCP reported.
In all, 14.6 percent of all public and private middle schools and high schools now conduct some type of student drug testing, the CDC’s School Health Policies and Programs meditate plant. Slightly more than 50 percent of these schools reported conducted random drug testing among specific groups of students.
Of the schools that drug standard, 84 percent utilize urinalysis - a method that detects the presence of not in force drug metabolites, but does not have the ability to determine recent physic use or impairment. Fifteen percent of schools employ hair follicle testing, the study reported. Eight percent use saliva testing, and three percent use sweat patch testing technology.
Of the drugs screened for, 86 percent of schools example for the presence of marijuana. By striking difference, 75 percent of school drug testing programs screen for cocaine, 50 percent screen for alcohol, and fewer than 20 percent test for nicotine.
Last year the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Council on School Health resolved, “There is little evidence of the effectiveness of school-based drug testing,” and warned that students subjected to stray testing programs may experience “an increase in known risk factors for drug use.” The Academy also warned that school-based drug testing programs could wane student involvement in extracurricular activities and mine believe between pupils and educators.
A 2003 cross-sectional cogitate of general student drug testing programs previously reported, “Drug testing, as practiced in recent years in American secondary schools, does not preclude or inhibit student unsalable article use.”
A 2007 prospective randomized clinical trial also reported that students who underwent random drug testing did not differ in their self-reported drug use compared to students at neighboring schools who were not enrolled in medicine testing programs.
For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director, at (202) 483-5500 or Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director.
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