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Drug testing may have unintended effects
07-23-2008 | Blog.Mlive.Com Robert Sharpe

The Jackson School Board needs to educate itself on the downside of student drug testing. Student involvement in afterschool activities like sports has been shown to reduce drug use. They keep kids busy during the hours they are most likely to get into trouble. Forcing students to undergo degrading urine tests will only discourage participation in extracurricular programs.

Drug testing also may compel marijuana users to switch to harder drugs to avoid testing positive. This is one of the reasons the American Academy of Pediatrics opposes student drug testing. Despite a short-lived high, marijuana is the only illegal drug that stays in the human body long enough to make urinalysis a deterrent.

Marijuana's organic metabolites are fat-soluble and can linger for days. More dangerous synthetic drugs like methamphetamine and prescription narcotics are water-soluble and exit the body quickly. If you think students don't know this, think again.

Anyone capable of running an Internet search can find out how to thwart a drug test.

The most commonly abused drug and the one most closely associated with violent behavior is almost impossible to detect with urinalysis. That drug is alcohol, and it takes far more student lives each year than all illegal drugs combined. Instead of wasting money on counterproductive drug tests, schools should invest in reality-based drug education.

— Robert Sharpe, policy analyst
Common Sense for Drug Policy

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SpiralArchitect

Another reason why they need to be taken out of the workplace and replaced with more appropriate, effective, and less invasive techniques. IMO, drug testing shouldn't even occur at schools.

Amen.

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budsmoker61

yeah this happened to some people i used to know in high school.first i used to smoke weed with them and stuff, then they quit and did shrooms all the time because on the drug tests they show up as food poisoning then coke and then from off topic to off topic until i didn't even know what the fuck happened to them.

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