Higj School Drug Testing & Student Drug Abuse

Drug Testing at schools is a normal thing now

Drug testing is now officially a reality for Fort Payne middle and high school students.

The Fort Payne Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to adopt a drug-testing program, aimed at middle and high school students who participate in competitive extracurricular activities. Board member Jimmy Durham did not attend Monday’s meeting but had earlier voiced support for the program.

The board voted to implement “phase one” of the program beginning April 3, which will allow any students to volunteer for drug testing. Those students would then be subject to random selection.

During the first phase, any student may volunteer to become part of the pool for random testing.

“Phase two” will begin June 5. At this time, students who are involved in competitive extracurricular activities or who choose to park vehicles on any of the Fort Payne school campuses will be subject to random testing.

The program is being implemented through a grant obtained through the Partnership for a Drug-Free DeKalb County.

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Liz Wear, director of the partnership, said the grant application specified that random testing be limited to students participating in competitive extracurricular activities. Wear said city school board attorney Bob Jordan interpreted that to mean “interscholastic extracurricular activities,” or extracurricular activities that involve competition with other schools.

A number of groups therefore fall under the umbrella for random testing, including all sports teams, band members and students involved in such organizations as Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, Future Farmers of America, high school chorus, scholar’s bowl team, math team, student council and French and Spanish clubs.

Some extracurricular activities fall outside the scope of testing, said Superintendent Jim Cunningham, because they involve only intrascholastic competition, such as Calendar Girl. He said that if, at any time in the future, such activities expand to include competition with other schools, the drug testing policy would then apply.

Also, Cunningham noted that all students who drive to school and park vehicles on campus are subject to random testing.

Partnership received a $500,000 grant last year to implement drug testing in both the city and county school systems. Wear said the DeKalb County Board of Education is expected to take up discussion about drug testing when it meets Thursday.

Source: Times-Journal - Fort Payne,AL,USA

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Coal Miners Drug Testing & Drug Testing Kits

Drug Testing For Mine Workers

A bill that would require drug testing for coal miner workers get an incredibly approval in the Kentucky Senate on Wednesday.

The Senate made just a few changes to the version that passed the House previously. The measure returns to the House for what could be a final vote.

The measure is aimed at improving safety in Kentucky coal mines by not letting workers who abuse drugs to work underground workplaces.

The screenings would be required before miners are hired. Miners would then be randomly tested after they begin work. Coal miners who test positive for drugs would have their certification revoked.

Three years ago, marijuana was found at the scene of a blasting accident that killed one man and seriously injured another in a Floyd County underground mine. An employee told investigators he saw miners snorting crushed painkillers.

In a series of public meetings over the past year, state regulators heard from coal operators and miners who said drug abuse had become widespread and needed to be dealt with.

Source: Kentucky Post - Covington,KY,USA

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Drug Testing Kits & Drug Testing Companies

Drug Testing & Drug Testing Kits Firms

Maryland buyout fund has bought the Redwood Toxicology Laboratory, which is a supplier of drug-testing services and kits to many places including prisons, rehabilitation centers and other markets.

Bethesda, Md.-based American Capital Strategies (Nasdaq: ACAS) paid $79.5 million for control of the Santa Rosa-based lab and affiliated companies, according to American Capital. The buyout firm has a host of regional offices, including one in San Francisco at Three Embarcadero Center.(continues below...)

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Along with 12-year-old Redwood Toxicology, the deal included two subsidiaries, Redwood Biotech Inc. and PerMaxim LLC.

"Redwood is an excellent addition to American Capital's growing portfolio," Darin Winn, the acquiring company's regional managing director, said in a statement. Winn called Redwood a leading company in a growing niche market. American Capital has invested more than $8 billion in 200 companies over the past nine years, including $3.4 billion in the past 12 months.

American Capital Strategies now owns 67 percent of Redwood, and members of Redwood's management team, including CEO and founder Bob Mount, own the remaining 33 percent, officials said. The deal closed Feb. 27, but was announced this week.

Redwood Toxicology has 7,000 customers nationwide, such as prisons, jails, rehab centers, hospitals and doctors' offices. Its annual revenues top $30 million, making it one of the nation's largest drug-testing facilities.

Source: San Francisco Business Times - San Francisco,CA,USA

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High School Random Drug Testing & Drug Testing Kits

Student Drug Testing begins nearly at every high school

Many students are used to get drug testing randomly at Meridian public schools.

Especially the students who takes part in sports, cheerleading and band will be tested randomly by the school board.

Students will be tested on a number of illegal drugs from cocaine to marijuana to anabolic steroids.(continues below...)

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Meridian High School Principal R.D. Harris also says any student about whom there is a reasonable suspicion of drug use may be tested.

Students who test positive will face disciplinary action, up to being expelled from school.

Harris said he anticipates the program will actually begin next week and affect 10 to 15 percent of students each month.

Source: WTOK - Meridian,MS,USA

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Drug Addiction & Random Drug Testing in Schools

Drug Testing in Schools

The Bush administration is pushing for random drug testing in schools. Thay think that it will keep students safe from drug abuse.

The Office of National Drug Control Policy held a meeting in Falls Church, Va., Wednesday to discuss this random drug testing idea. The meeting was one of four meetings of its kind held nationwide for educators and community leaders.

Officials said student drug abuse is a national public health problem and random drug testing is a legal and effective way to fight back.

"What we have to remember is that, students have rights. The question is whether or not those rights are protectable and that has to be balanced against the responsibility that schools have to establish and maintain a safe school environment," said drug testing proponent Bill Judge. "What people have to understand is that drug testing is a tool … to be used to identify children who need help." (continues below...)

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The Bush administration said more than 400 schools nationwide have implemented federally funded random drug testing programs.

"It serves not only as a prevention method, but also as an intervention method.

And, I think that it gives students a way to say no," said high school senior Christine Bottles. "Not just those who are labeled as the druggies, but also those who might be in sports or other activities and might be highly esteemed students in their schools, it gives them a reason to say no as well."

Bottles is chair of a student task force on random drug testing in Williamsburg.
Some argue that random drug testing in schools is an invasion of privacy. They also said there is no proof the testing will effectively fight drug abuse and may even push students to use drugs that are less detectable by a drug test such as alcohol.

"They're promoted as non-punitive and most of them suspend students from extracurricular activities as punishment. And, it really is based on coercion and the threat of punishment," said Jennifer Kern of the Drug Policy Alliance.

The Bush administration is asking for $15 million for random drug testing in its next budget. Opponents say random testing is expensive and can lead to false positives and innocent students being punished.

Source: NBC 4.com - Washington,DC,USA

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School Drug Testing Kits & Student Drug Addiction

High School Random Drug Testing & Drug Testing Kits

With no hesitation and a few opposition all five members of Pauls Valley’s school board voted this week to start drug testing all junior high and high school students taking part in extracurricular activities.

The move expected for weeks now means the former policy of only testing athletes will expand at the start of the 2006-2007 school year to include all students participating in the extra activities.

“We are simply going to expand our present drug testing policy,” Superintendent Bobby Russell said.“It will probably double the number of students presently being tested,” he said.

The policy being revised — one calling for the testing of athletes — was approved by the local school board back in 2001. At the time this was the one area where testing was allowed.

A short time later a U.S. Supreme Court decision opened the door for local boards to include all students taking part in any extracurricular activity.

That’s exactly what the board here did during a regular meeting earlier this week.

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“I’ve not had anybody contact me since the last meeting,” Russell said, referring to any public input since the topic returned to the forefront last month.

“It’s my recommendation we approve the new policy put together by the committee and presented to you at the last meeting,” he said to board members.

“All extracurricular students will be give a policy prior to them leaving this spring.”

The superintendent stresses the policy for students in grades 7-12 is not intended to police students but instead serve more as another tool for them to combat potential drug usage.

“The policy is really there to help the students,” Russell said.

“We’re providing another avenue for them to say no and stay off drugs.”

The expansion came after school officials decided it was time to take a look at revising the policy already in place.

A committee made up of seven members eventually recommended the policy include all extracurricular students starting in the seventh grade.

It will include such activities as band, chorus, academic teams, FFA, cheerleaders and pom squad.

As with the athletes, the $15 lab fee for any students being initially tested will be paid by the students. That test will have to come before a student participates in his or her activity.

After the initial testing scattered throughout the school year, there will be monthly random testing from among the group of students undergoing the first round of tests.

The cost for the random tests will be absorbed by the school district, which runs from $15 to $50 or more.

The random testing will be done by a laboratory independent of the school district.

Source: Pauls Valley Daily Democrat - Pauls Valley,OK,USA

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Drug Abuse & Urine Drug Testing Kits

Urine Drug Testing Kits for Athletes

A German laboratory has developed a method to get athletes who switch or tamper with urine samples during drug tests.

And top doping institutions in that country says that the development is promising.

The system would end the need for athletes to be supervised when producing a specimen.

Here's how they say it works. A marker is put in a liquid given to athletes to drink about 30 minutes before a urine drug test.

Once the sample is analyzed, it shows if the marker is missing.

This marking system has been tested for five years at drug treatment centers and for the past year in German prisons, but Germany's anti-doping agency is ian favour of its needing "more evaluation" before employing the system.

Source: Today's THV - Little Rock,AR,USA

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Student Drug Abuse & Drug Testing Kits

Student Drug Addiction & School Drug Testing

Boone Grove High School's educator and basketball coach Matt McKay, didn't want to get student drug testing for years because he worried it would defeat individuals' rights.

But now, with students across the county being arrested for drug use at an alarming rate, McKay has changed his ideae. Along with friend coach Clay Corman, McKay began researching random student drug testing at other schools in the hopes of creating a policy for Porter Township School Corp.

"I don't think it's so much a problem at our school, but it's certainly a problem in our society," he said. "It's just so widespread."

Although drug use is an issue countywide, few school corporations use drug tests. Portage Township Schools, the largest school corporation in the county and the district with the most drug-related student arrests, doesn't test students. Neither do Valparaiso, Union Township, Hebron.

In fact, if Porter Township Schools chooses to implement such a policy, the 1,600-student school corporation would be only the second in the county and the first one of its size to have a testing policy.

Duneland School Corp., the only corporation in the county with a policy, implemented random student drug testing in 2000 and then suspended it a year later because the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled against such a policy. The Indiana Supreme Court overruled that decision in 2002, opening the door for Duneland to reinstate the program. (continues below...)

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They held off until the fall of 2004, when they began a reasonable-suspicion policy in place of a random one. The latter policy limits the tests to students who drive to school and those in co- and extracurricular activities. A reasonable-suspicion policy lets schools test whomever they suspect is using drugs, according to Chesterton High School Principal James Goetz.

So far this year, Chesterton school officials have tested between 10 and 15 students this year, Goetz said.

Superintendent Dirk Baer has noticed a change in the community response.

"It doesn't create the negative community influence because you're not arbitrarily pulling kids," Baer said, adding that he would recommend schools looking to start testing begin with a reasonable-suspicion policy.

If it was up to Sharon Cawood, coordinator of the Porter County Substance Abuse Council, all of the schools in the county would test in some capacity. Cawood is in favor of testing not only to determine which kids are using, but to prevent students from starting.

"The kids have an easy way to say no to drugs: 'My school tests'," she said. "It takes the pressure off.

"While it might be of help to the kids, drug testing can polarize the community. Duneland schools dealt with some heat during their decision making process. Therefore, Porter Township school officials plan to have a forum to gather input before bringing the issue to the school board.

"We don't want to ram this through," he said. "We want to make sure everyone has their say."

Source: Munster Times - Munster,IN,USA

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