A Position Paper of Drug Testing of High School

and College Students

Drug testing is a way to evaluate the type and the possibly the amount of legal and
especially for illegal drugs substances taken by a person. Drug testing can be performed
from small samples taken of your fingernails, saliva, or more commonly, your blood, urine,
or hair. Almost 10 percent of the nation’s teens report the use of illicit drugs within the last
month. The drug testing in high school and college students is an important and ultimately
one of the best solution made by the government officials to reduce and stop the
increasing amount of young drug users in schools, universities, and state colleges.
Schools have made the policy of random drug testing on students to serves as a warning
to not get into peer pressure. Because I believe “a friend in deed, won’t make you smoke
that weed.”
Drug testing in school has resulted in accurate, powerful, and a positive outcome
in attempting to reduce the amount of young drug users in school. The purpose of drug
testing is not to catch whose using an illegal drugs, but to prevent them from using it in
the first place. Surely, there should be action taken to punish those criminals. The current
method to attack drugs is at the source, by imprisoning dealers and breaking the supply
chain are not so succeeding. Why drug testing is so important and necessary to be
implemented, because it is important to protect teenagers at the age were they’re easily
get influenced by the peers and at the time when their attitude to education greatly affects
their entire lives.
Some sacrifice of human rights is necessary to eliminate the drug problem. Drug
testing is a simple mechanism for examining the human body because there is a multiple
options of detecting it by supplying urine, hair, or simply a breath. These small sample
helps to detect the common drugs like methamphetamines, cocaine, and heroin. Also, if
you know that you are not breaking the law then there’s nothing to fear of.