... discussion over the past few years. Schools are attempting to stop the use of drugs by randomly testing students in their schools. The majority of the drug testing going on around the nation involves students that take part in sports and other extracurricular activities. This practice exhibits a complete lack of fairness and trust ... into my privacy; if I"m not taking drugs I shouldn't have to prove my innocence." (US Pupils 1) Many other students have agreed, like Jenni Busbee, who said "It totally invades students" privacy. It's none of their ( the school's) business." (US Ar. 2). Peo...

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... random drug testing at the school happened to show up that very next day. If schools do not allow students to participate in school activities because they do not feel comfortable submitting a drug test, it would discourage them in sports and in their education. If students are drug tested, many would lose the want to try hard anymore. Their grades would drop and they ... some kind of fundraiser to raise money just for random drug testing. Most of the money the school makes goes to the sports, like football or baseball. There is also something called masking drugs. Masking drugs is desi...

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... , have been conducted infrequently and with varying degrees of success. Not only a violation of rights, but testing only for recreational drugs, and at a very high cost, makes many disbelievers of the system. What exactly is the point of these tests? High school sports have become very competitive among many schools. It is often more than just a game, and athletes find themselves training ... this age group slows reaction time, affects memory, and tires an individual out. The tests rarely test for all drugs, including tobacco and alcohol (the drugs most commonly used by adolescents). Sin...

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... of different ways drug testing pertains to our society and country today. One of the biggest ways it does is in sports. Athletes are one of the biggest topics in drug testing today. The question is whether or not they are using performance enhancing drugs. All athletes are subject to a random drug test at any time during their career. Golf; however is the only ... to start testing players. Baseball has been most suspect lately with the amount of records it has had being broken. All sports though, and especially in the Olympics are being tested. To fully understand the topic of sports dr...

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... athletes an unfair advantage, can eliminate any potential drug related health problems. There are many benefits toward drug testing in athletics. Testing can help restore an athlete's faith in the fairness of sports competition and put athletes on notice, if you cheat to win you might get caught and then you will lose ... pregnant is not left with the responsibility of supporting and raising there child on her own. If he along with many other athletes were tested for drugs they would have a chance to revive there career or might even be here today. However, there is also a rising controv...

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... school. Today your friends, classmates and children are being randomly tested for drugs in school, is the power to test minors in schools a good decision or something that may traumatically impact there lives in changing ways. First it is against the law for minors in the U.S. to be in use and possession of drugs, however these things may still be easily obtained by any person. You debate ... student must receive some type of help or treatment not be sent out onto the streets where they may cause trouble. Who exactly is being tested for drugs? "Many schools began testing students who pa...

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... take responsibility and live up to the high standards set for them. Drug testing in schools is an excellent way to monitor students ("Drug Testing: Going to far?- ), especially those who participate in sports and others leadership positions, and would essentially decrease the desire to experiment with potentially life-changing drugs due to fear of consequence. There are many ways to test students for ... the use of illegal drugs and alcohol. Although many argue that these methods are not effective, "most drug tests ... for the pure benefit of the individual child. With parental acknowl...

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... Vernonia School District and wanted to play football. The Vernonia School District has a policy that all students on a sports team must participate in a random drug testing. These tests would be taken at random to 10% of the team every week. Before these drug tests could be done, the student and the student's family ... Vernonia School District. The principal of James" school, Randy Aultman, was the first to testify. Aultman talked about the important role that sports played in the students" lives. Then he told about disciplinary problems in the 1980's and the increased use of drugs du...

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... about what should be done. After holding many meeting on drug use and how to tell if you child was on drugs, teachers and parents thought that they were going to clean up the drug problem in the schools. After a year, nothing seems to be working. After holding a meeting with the school board, the board ... go to drug counseling and have to take a drug test every week. If students and parents don't agree to this student is suspended from sports for one whole season. In 1992, James Acton, a seventh grader at the time, tried out for the football team. James made the team and took the papers...

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... are considered to be less of an invasion of someone's privacy. Even thought the hair test is more expensive than a urine test, it detects drugs over a longer period of time. Hair tests do not usually test within the previous week. The same source goes on to say that the ... explains that the head coach will arrange for all their athletes to attend a drug testing orientation that is given by the department of sports medicine. The team physician may prescribe any athlete who tests positive on one or more occasion to professional counseling. Each coach and coaching staff ... 's frequency of...

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... very addictive and damaging to the mind. It causes violent episodes, which an athlete can claim, a legal insanity defense as Jonathan Harris reports in his book Drugged Athletes. Research has also discovered that steroids cause psychotic side effects sometimes referred to as "roid rage". Overall, the usage ... mentally destroy the body. The use of steroids provides an unfair advantage to non-user athletes and therefore should remain illegal for non-medical use. Drugs in sports can cost a player his or her scholarship(s) and more seriously, their lives. Drug testing of athletes needs to b...

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... and having a sample to be tested seized without probable cause, therefore, companies and schools using a drug test are infringing on the student or employees rights. In South Carolina, a hospital was drug testing pregnant women and reporting the positive results to the police. The Supreme Court found this to be a violation of the ... a drug test. She was accused of tampering with her urine sample. The flight attendant, Yasuko Ishikawa, Had another test done that came out negative for drugs, and it showed she had not tampered with the sample. She was awarded $400,000 because the lab that t...

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... the world as "America's Pastime." However, in the past year baseball has becoming known as an entirely different game. Baseball is rapidly becoming a game of politics and denial. In an article in Sports Illustrated columnist Tom Verducci inquired, "Is Baseball in an asterisk era?" The frightening thing is that ... the answer might be "yes." If it is proven that some of the baseball players that have set records in the past few years have been using illegal performance enhancing drugs ... , it could cause chaos. This madness would not only apply to the record books but for top executives ...

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