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We will not let the Drug Czar have the last word on random student drug testing.
Student drug testing surveillance programs not only undermine the role of parents in making decisions about their children's health, but can actually undermine the very protective factors that have been shown to help keep young people out of trouble with drugs.
I need your help to stop these programs.
For the last two years the administration has been promoting random, suspicionless student drug testing as the "silver bullet" in combating teen drug use, despite evidence that it doesn't work, and in face of objections from the nation's leading experts in adolescent health. DPA's Drug Testing Fails campaign, which I coordinate, has been the loudest and most effective voice of opposition to this wasteful and intrusive policy, and we've been able to take momentum away from the Drug Czar's propaganda machine.
Help us continue to fight by making a contribution today.
The Drug Czar and his staff have been flying around the country holding propaganda filled summits to try to convince local educators to start drug testing students -- randomly and without cause. Because these programs are both costly and unproven, the government is offering the enticement of federal funds to get such programs going. They are wasting millions of your tax dollars to promote and fund the program.
The Drug Policy Alliance is committed to heading the Drug Czar off at each stop. We want to ensure that educators and media understand that these surveillance programs are ineffective and harmful, deterring students from joining extracurricular activities, eroding relationships of trust at school, creating bizarre incentives to binge drink or switch to harder drugs that leave the body quickly, and perniciously undermining our most intimate notions of privacy and basic rights.
The Drug Czar's office recently announced the location of its four summits this year. I will be at the first summit in Charleston, SC, on January 24, 2007 where I'm already organizing local activists and allies to counter the Drug Czar by distributing honest information, speaking with educators and asking tough questions of presenters.
With your help I can organize local opposition to the subsequent summits on February 27 in Newark, NJ, March 27 in Honolulu, HI, and April 24 in Las Vegas, NV. But I'll need the resources to do it. Please make a special contribution today to support the Drug Testing Fails campaign, and to help me make sure your voice is heard at these summits. Just $5,000 from our members will cover the short-term costs of this campaign, and will go a long way toward protecting our children from intrusive government drug testing policies.
Please make a $15, $25, $50, or $100 donation -- or whatever you can afford -- to empower us to meet the Drug Czar head-on, and provoke the debate nationwide.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Kern
Drug Testing Fails Campaign Coordinator
Drug Policy Alliance
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