Should Drug Testing Be Banned

There are many reasons behind drug testing athletes in schools and leagues. The tests screen for drugs that are either legally banned or banned from sports. These could include marijuana, cocaine, heroin, acid, hGH, and other performance enhancing drugs. Drug testing student athletes is not intended to be a punishment. Rather, it is a way to keep students safe, get them help, and keep the games fair and untarnished. Some may say that drug testing athletes is unconstitutional as a violation of personal rights stated in the fourth amendment. However, it is consistent with the fourth amendment because the school is acting on its interest to prevent drug use in the student body. In the conclusion of Board of Education v. Earls, it is stated that “the Board of Education 's general regulation of extracurricular activities diminished the expectation of privacy among students and that the Board 's method of obtaining urine samples and maintaining test results was minimally intrusive on the students ' limited privacy interest.” The most important reason to drug test is simply for safety issues. If an athlete is either currently using a drug or still has a drug …show more content…
These athletes see the abundant success of their drug-using peers. These drug users completely separate themselves from other competition and others are expected to rise to that level. The famous Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez is a perfect example of this. When talking about why he used performance enhancing drugs, Rodriguez said, “I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me, and I needed to perform -- and perform at a high level -- every day.” Although it would have ended his career early, if Rodriguez were tested back when he was using, he would have never been able to put up the outstanding statistics he has over the course of his career and baseball would have been a fairer