and communities‚ with an increasing fear of abuse of drugs such as heroin and methamphetamines. Many schools are trying to solve the issue and prevent these harmful substances from being abused by their students. One route that many schools are taking is by performing random drug tests on their students in hopes that they will find those who are using illicit substances. Administrators are also hoping that other students will be deterred from drug use due to the harsh consequences that come with a
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Lang. AP Standardized Testing When you think of education‚ what comes to mind? Homework? Books? Essays? What about tests? Nowadays‚ that’s the only thing that seems to matter. As absurd as it is‚ no one truly cares about anything besides test scores; it’s all about how high students can score‚ and how good they can make the school look‚ rather than how much they can retain and actually apply when it really counts. Despite what some people may think‚ standardized testing is one of the worst things
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Mandatory Drug Testing of Welfare Recipients Presented by: Jennifer Tuggle Hinze UIN: 223002088 Thesis Statement Overall‚ mandatory drug testing initiatives have noble intentions such as: providing medical care to the abuser‚ preventing lifelong dependency‚ and saving taxpayer dollars‚ however‚ states should choose to not implement the intrusive testing because it is unconstitutional‚ costly‚ and ultimately detrimental to the child‚ not the parents. Through this presentation you
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specific‚ roughly 170‚000 rabbits are bred and used purely for testing in the beauty industry and go through chemical blindness and fur loss because of a product meant for humans. How is that humane? Rabbits are not the only animals that are succumbed to the sickening procedures of experiments. Primates‚ cats‚ dogs‚ mice and rats are also some animals that are commonly known to be tested on. There are many alternatives to animal testings‚ but universities‚ militaries and laboratories decide
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pros and cons of mandatory drug testing‚ the reasons one should or should not be tested‚ and the effects drug testing will have on families. This article is very informative on the ways drug testing can or cannot help the society‚ and thoroughly discusses the reasons behind a person’s opinion of why mandatory drug testing should or should not happen. Authors of this article have researched facts on this topic‚ and all have the credentials to write about mandatory drug testing and it’s benefits. Many
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Adolescents should be allowed to partake in predictive or predispositional genetic testing without discouragement from medical facilities or family members. Huntington’s disease is an inherited disorder that arises from a mutation in the HTT gene‚ which codes for the huntingtin protein. The disease presents fatal complications because it causes degeneration of nerve cells in the brain‚ which in turn negatively impacts physical and mental performance (Mayoclinic). Symptoms of the disease include
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Drug testing for professional athletes has been a debate for a long time. Drug tests are tests that are used to find out if someone has used drugs or not. “Urine is the most common type of drug test. Others are hair samples‚ sweat patches‚ oral fluid‚ and alcohol breath” (Drug Testing). Athletes get tested for drugs because they can have an unfair advantage over other athletes. “PEDs or Performance Enhancing Drugs are drugs that give athletes unfair advantages if they use them. PEDs have the ability
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unemployment insurance is 5.6 million. If the government is spending this much money on this many people‚ they all should at least be drug tested to ensure that the money they are receiving is being used to pay bills and not for buying and then using drugs. So therefore‚ I am for drug
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you want to have access to it? Even if the experimental drug was not 100 percent guaranteed to benefit you‚ at least you are giving yourself a chance to survive. On the other hand‚ it can be extremely difficult for clinical trial director’s to get the data that they need‚ without it being rather skewed. Generally‚ a clinical trial would not want to accept a patient who is terminally ill for the fact that it might be too late for any new drug to help them survive. Based on that transpiring multiple
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currently are. I believe through use of mandatory random drug testing‚ progress monitoring‚ on- going physical and mental examinations‚ we can discourage the continued misuse of these funds. If mandatory drug testing were implemented‚ fewer checks would be used to purchase illegal drugs‚ and be used for necessary items instead. When a person is addicted to drugs‚ it consumes the individual’s life. The person becomes obsessed with the drug they are addicted to; it becomes more important to them
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