Substance abuse should be a concern for administrators and teachers in grades seven through twelve everywhere. Overdosing from drugs kills over 38,000 people every year; consequently, drug overdose causes more deaths than guns, traffic accidents and falling (Bellum). If we are able to reduce drug use in teens this number will go down significantly, because it is where the addiction and the experimenting begins. With the right tests school’s can detect drug use from up to 3 months prior of abusing through a hair follicle test (Rosenthal). Drug tests in schools will benefit many young adults by allowing for early detection and intervention for addiction to help these kids get back on the right track in order to have a successful life, it will
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Many teens feel rushed into trying drugs and think, well my friend is doing it and they do not seem to have any more problems than normal; consequently, as a teenagers do not tend to think to far into their future, because their brain is not fully developed and if they do decide to try them, it more then likely will lead to an addiction to drugs later in life. As Research shows people who make it through their teenage years without using drugs are much less likely to start using them when they are older (Preventing Teenage Drug Abuse With Drug Testing). Talking about resisting peer pressure when it comes to drugs, teens have been warned time and time again about the dangers of doing drugs from programs like D.A.R.E.; as a result of D.A.R.E. happening at t early of an age and not when the kids are actually being offered the drugs. Studies have shown the decrease of effectiveness as kids get older that the ads they are being shown will have no effect on them; due to them seeing drugs as being cool to use. As shown in the chart below by The Partnership For Drug-Free Kids, who have been researching kids on drugs for the last 30 years, shows how their has been a dramatic decline in the teens paying attention to the anti drug messages shown on television and
Many teens feel rushed into trying drugs and think, well my friend is doing it and they do not seem to have any more problems than normal; consequently, as a teenagers do not tend to think to far into their future, because their brain is not fully developed and if they do decide to try them, it more then likely will lead to an addiction to drugs later in life. As Research shows people who make it through their teenage years without using drugs are much less likely to start using them when they are older (Preventing Teenage Drug Abuse With Drug Testing). Talking about resisting peer pressure when it comes to drugs, teens have been warned time and time again about the dangers of doing drugs from programs like D.A.R.E.; as a result of D.A.R.E. happening at t early of an age and not when the kids are actually being offered the drugs. Studies have shown the decrease of effectiveness as kids get older that the ads they are being shown will have no effect on them; due to them seeing drugs as being cool to use. As shown in the chart below by The Partnership For Drug-Free Kids, who have been researching kids on drugs for the last 30 years, shows how their has been a dramatic decline in the teens paying attention to the anti drug messages shown on television and