Areas Where Drug Testing Can Improve Safety Drug addiction have become very popular in the 1960’s due to the influence of the mass media and music. It has estimated that about 208 million people around the globe are drug users. Despite the government’s full efforts in trying to fight against drugs‚ clandestine laboratories continue to rise and cause havoc in the lives of the people today‚ especially the youth. A large majority of drug users are from the work force which is why some companies strictly
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College Prep English III 1 April 2013 Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Welfare began during the great depression in the 1930’s then‚ just like now‚ there were many families that needed help from the government‚ and that is why they introduced welfare. In our world today there is social welfare‚ corporate welfare‚ child welfare‚ and many others that one can apply for. Other welfare programs‚ such as TANF and WIC‚ have truly made a difference in the lives of American families. Families are kept together
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professional 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
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Should people on public assistance be required to pass drug screenings? Almost all jobs and companies require a drug test before hiring you as an employee. So there is no reason a person requesting public assistance should not be required to pass a drug test as well. I don’t mean random drug testing either. Make it a requirement to receive their benefits. Our country cannot continue to waste money and expect taxpayers to support them. Enough is enough. If we sit back and allow the public health
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Candace Henson Mr. Gordon English 1101 March 30‚ 2012 Mandatory Drug Tests Millions of businesses require people to take drug tests before they are hired. I believe that this should keep happening. Jobs that don’t require drug tests have the risk of insurance problems‚ the health of their employees‚ how it affects their work‚ and how they treat customers and other employees. Drugs alter the way your brain processes information and makes you think differently than you normally would. They
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Uniforms should be mandatory in schools Uniforms aren’t just a set of clothes students wear to school every day of their miserable education filled lives. They are so much more than that. They lend a feeling of belonging‚ of pride – after all‚ what is an American astronaut without his trademark baggy white suit with its American flag proudly brandished on his left arm? They promote and encourage equality – everyone will have to learn to rock the same outfit – and they allow students to focus more
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of welfare should undergo mandatory drug testing. There are many pros and cons of drug testing people on welfare. According to State Drug Testing Requirements for Welfare Recipients‚ by Abby E. Schaberg that drug testing people who want to apply for welfare would be considered as an unreasonable search and therefore violate the Fourth Amendment. However‚ the constitution of such laws has yet to be definitively determined. Legislatures in at least 28 states are considering drug testing applicants
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Mandatory attendance in college has always been a highly debated subject. Professors want students to attend all of their classes so they can teach them directly‚ but many students want to be given the freedom to decide which classes to attend. Due to the difficulty of regulating a school-wide attendance policy‚ most colleges and universities give professors the authority to set their own attendance rules. Sam Artley‚ a senior studying social relations and policy at Michigan State University
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dollars being spent on welfare that we could statistically be saving if we were drug testing welfare recipients. That number also doesn’t include people getting food stamps‚ or the people who qualify for unemployment. Or‚ we spent that money on the future we could send over 6 million students through public colleges to improve our economy‚ and stimulate innovation. All welfare recipients should have to undergo drug testing before receiving any sort of help financial from the government. There is
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paper is to summarize and evaluate the debate on whether the petty drug offenders should be crowding our prisons‚ and also if some drugs should be legalized or at least decriminalized to reduce our prison populations. This issue is linked to Parenti’s discussion on drugs and the “War of Drugs”. Many of prisons in the United States are over crowded because of the petty offenders and the first time offenders that have minimum mandatory sentences‚ which are outrageous sentences for these offenders. Parenti
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