I am writing this informational paper to inform you on the dangers of drugs and why we need drug testing at our school. Drug testing is a good idea since many of the students do take drugs even though staff thinks otherwise. I think drug testing will slow down the intake of drugs tremendously‚ and will be a scapegoat from the any situation where they are offered a drug. There are many long and short term effects of doing drugs and finding a way to stop those effects will help all students. Many long
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or not schools should be able to drug test their students. One side says there should be drug testing and one side says there should not be any. The use of drug testing is to reduce the use of drugs by students. Everyone wants students to not be using drugs but one side drug testing will be an effective way to reduce it but the other side says there is other ways in which to do this. “Schools that have adopted random student drug testing seek to decrease drug use among students via two routes
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Forced Drug Testing Drug testing is a way to test individuals for the use of any drug in their body. There is a downfall of drug testing because it’s not completely accurate‚ considering some drugs stay in your system longer than others. So an individual could have used a drug 1 week prior to when they got tested. But if a person isn’t suppose to use drugs at all‚ then it shouldn’t matter how long the drugs are in their system because they know not to use. There are ups and downs to pretrial
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Workplace Drug Screening Many employers view drug screening and drug prevention programs as a second line of defense‚ to combat safety‚ and liability issues within the workplace. There are many types of drug testing methods available for use in the workplace. Employees see the use of mandatory or voluntary drug testing in many ways. With drug use on the rise in today’s society very few companies ask who should be tested and why‚ these employers are testing current and potential employees no
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have been enforcing drug tests to better their students. This has lead to several debates between multiple people and debating whether this is a good thing or not. In the non-fiction article‚ “At One College‚ a Fight Over Required Drug Tests” written by Timothy Williams‚ it shares important reasons of why it’s important to do drug testing on college students. Drug testing is such a controversial topic‚ but there’s many reasons why it’s important to do so. Students should be drug tested because it’s
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In response to the increasing number‚ in April of 1989‚ MUSC instituted a drug testing policy. Women who came into MUSC that presented suspicion of drug use were subjected to the drug screenings. If the tests were positive‚ it was reported to police and the women were subsequently arrested. MUSC worked in conjunction with the Solicitor for Charleston in the prosecution of mothers whose children tested positive for drugs at birth. Petitioners were
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High schoolers tend to not make good choices as they get older. In the article “Drug Testing of High School Students May Help Prevent Substance Abuse” written by Joined Together Staff says‚ “Once students graduate and move off to college‚ all bets are off‚ and the rates of drug and alcohol use go through the roof.” Once students think they are older‚ they think they can do whatever they want and never get into trouble. Students at a younger age are easier to deal with when getting help‚ because they
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Drug Testing is Important Putting on shoes getting ready to go play the first college home game of our season‚ and suddenly a man comes up to me out of breath and says‚ “Excuse me‚ sir‚ I was told to come and explain to you that you will not be able to play your game today‚ or any more games for that matter‚ because your drug test came back positive.” My stomach dropped‚ and I just sat in the locker room not knowing what to do. Professional athletes should be drug tested because they are an influence
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Life Support‚ Inc. Interoffice Memorandum To: Jane Doe From: John Smith Date: April 27th‚ 2013 Subject: Agreement with Idea to Implement Drug-Testing Policy This memo is in response to your recent e-mail in regards to random drug testing. I believe that implementing this policy would be extremely beneficial to our company as a whole. This is for the following reasons: financial savings‚ workplace safety‚ and to maintain our reputation. Financial Savings It is important that we
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athletes should have to take drug test‚ for the sake of the sport that they play and those who look up to them as a role model. If they didn’t have to‚ it would make the game unfair and may draw attention away from the game because using illegal drugs to enhance your performance is cheating. So many children and teenagers look up to athletes and idol them. As a professional athlete‚ they should set a good example and be a role model. If professional athletes are abusing drugs‚ how can they be a role
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