are drug testing students in hopes that it will curb student drug use. The majority of these policies target student-athletes or participants in extracurricular activities‚ and on both sides of the debate‚ many questions remain: Is student drug testing an invasion of privacy? How prevalent are drug-testing policies in U.S. schools? Does research show that these policies work? A look at the facts provides a clearer picture about the benefits and problems associated with student drug testing.
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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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Drug Testing in the Workplace This paper intends to make assertions against drug testing in the workplace especially where the activities of others could be disturbed. No worker wants that his private life is invaded and suspected. You do not want your life to be your boss’s business. Individual and civil rights are the ones that are most respected‚ giving every citizen the right to keep his life private and not scrutinized. However‚ with the advent of efficient technological tools
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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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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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Federal Court Decisions Mandatory Suspicionless Testing of Student Athletes Ruled Constitutional The legal foundation for suspicionless student drug testing rests upon Vernonia v. Acton (1995). In that landmark decision‚ the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a school policy requiring student athletes to pass random urinalysis tests as a ground for participation in interscholastic sports. The Court rejected a Fourth Amendment claim asserting that such tests are an unconstitutional invasion
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Marin S.Galper GE217 3/1/12 Mandatory Drug Testing In The Work Place For many years‚ the United States has been involved in many wars‚ costing millions of dollars and the death of many people. One of the longest wars that the US is still facing is drug abuse in the work place‚ and a widespread strategy to combat this issue is mandatory drug testing. In September 15‚ 1986‚ President Ronald Reagan signed execute order 12564‚ his goal was to establish a drug-free workplace. This order required all
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Middle school students should get drug tested. Middle school students are getting into drugs and drinking alcohol. Middle school students our getting into drugs. Schools in several states now require drug testing for students who want to participate in sports and other extracurricular activities‚ starting in middle school. Some coaches‚ teachers and school administrators said drug-testing programs served as a deterrent for middle school students encountering drugs of all kinds‚ including steroids
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Drug Testing in Nigeria Table of Contents Introduction 3 Background 3-4 Ethical Dilemma 4-5 Situational Analysis 5-6 Stakeholder Analysis 6-7 Analysis Based on Ethical Theories 7-8 Conclusion and Recommendations 8-9 References 10 Drug Testing in Nigeria Introduction ‘What if a drug company experimenting on critically ill children does not get the proper Parental consent‚ 11 of those children die and a whistleblower is fired?’ (Perlroth. 2008) This paper will discuss the issues
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Regarding the topic of drug use‚ I don’t see the conduction of drug screenings as an invasion of privacy because it ultimately go towards promoting a safe‚ healthy‚ and productive work environment. Drug testing is a necessity for the workplace because drug use that occurs in the workplace can have serious consequences on the business owner as well as endanger the safety of the employees as well. Depending on the line of work‚ the drug abuse of an employee could have a fatal outcome. Factors that
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