Drug_Testing

Drug Testing Block 6 Drug Testing The issue of drug testing in the workplace, and school has become more of a controversy in the last few years as drug use has become a much more important issue. In the competitive times of the 21 st century employers want to have clean productive workers. School administrators of the 21 st century want to have students free of all illegal drugs. Teachers would rather concentrate on students wanting to learn then those who are on drugs and distracting other students. Drug use may be down since the 70’s but is still on a rise from the early 90’s The current reports on illegal drug use have shown that 9.9 percent of youths age 12-17 reported current use of illicit drugs in 1998. This estimate represents a statistically significant decrease from the estimate of 11.4 percent in 1997. The rate was highest in 1979 16.3 percent, declined to 5.3 percent in 1992, then increased to 10.9 percent in 1995. The estimate of cocaine users 12 and older in the us in 1998 was 1.8 million people down from its peak in 1985 of 3 percent of the total population in the united drug, testing, drugs, percent, school, high, catholic, times, workplace, workers, users, user, students, since, job, employers, become, because, athletics, athletes, unnecessary, tests, states, rise, right, person, over, medical, make, laws, higher, help, health, god, free, even, estimate, employees, controversy, church, body, been, accident, abuse, 1995, without, whose, way, very, united