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## Time Magazine and Drug Testing…

February 28th, 2009 | Tags:
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http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1876840,00.html

This article is for teachers, but a lot of these same arguments apply to students as well. The school has lost a lot of students so far this year, and a lot of this has come from drug use. The random drug screens don’t seem to be a deterrent. Many of the students who were either let go or were sent to rehab went for, among other reasons, prescription drug abuse. this article links Rx drug abuse with Drug screens, and this appears top be true.

This weekend, the school screened a record 10 people in one day. If a drug test costs 44 dollars, and the school pays all but 10 (the 10 is charged to the students PSA account) that’s 340 dollars that could be spent in some other way, all used in one day. This money could easily afford new working mouses for the LRC.

more posts to come, feedback welcome.

(from the LRC)

Dan Stravinskas

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