Drug Testing

In regards to drug testing, there are multiple ways that it can be done. The five testing methods described in the article were testing by urine, hair, sweat patch, oral fluids, and breath alcohol. Urine testing requires the person being tested to urinate into a cup, the contents of which are tested for multiple drugs. Its window of detection usually is one to five days. Hair testing measures hair from the subject, and can test drug use for a large window of time, up to three months. Sweat patch testing is a patch that stays on the examinee’s body for a certain amount of times, and tests the sweat that is released from the body. It can keep evidence of drug use for up to seven days. Oral fluid testing is usually collected by a swab in the inner cheek, and can only retain signs of drug use ten to twenty-four hours prior. Breath alcohol testing is a used by having the subject blow into a device, which shows the amount of alcohol that is currently in the blood, which means that it cannot test prior alcohol consumption. Drug testing also faces some dilemmas. One is that the people being tested could create complaints or lawsuits about the invasiveness of the testing; this is mostly dealt with because of the decision passed in 2002, which increased the power that schools have to drug test. …show more content…
Drug testing gives schools vital statistics on the amount of students taking drugs, and can decrease the amount of drug use in students. Plus, if any students are found positive for drugs, the school can notify the parents about the issue and even set up guidance to solve the problem. This can potentially change a student’s life, or even save one. As the article mentioned many students even endorse the idea of drug testing, and if there are qualms with the invasiveness of a method, there are others that can be performed. This is why I am for drug testing in