Drug_Use

Drug Use Rebuttal of Pro Drug Use implementation. There is no doubt that teenage drug use is a widespread problem affecting the nation. Countless numbers of schools have implemented various programs to combat this through education and in more extreme cases, requiring urine-analysis drug tests for extracurricular activities in compliance with the US Supreme Court 5-4 majority ruling in Pottawatomie, et al. v. Earls, et al. Many experts of public health and pediatric health argued that blanket drug testing of teenagers was bad for their health. In addition they maintained that extracurricular students are far less likely to use drugs than their less involved peers, many students find testing policies intensely intrusive on privacy and students will be deterred from extracurricular involvement which would result in far-reaching, negative consequences. The US Dept. of Education and Dept. of Justice report that most youth drug use takes place between the hours of 3 – 6 pm. Students who spend one to four hours a week with extracurricular activities are 40% less likely to use drugs than their non participating peers. These after school programs involve adults who are able to supervise the students during the time of day when they are most susceptible to using drug, students, testing, tests, test, extracurricular, activities, school, program, less, drugs, discourage, hours, health, caught, youth, while, through, teen, student, spending, seem, schools, sap-10, sample, running, result, reduce, random, programs, problem, peers, participating, number, money, likely