The U.S. government’s most recent 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) reported that nationwide over 800,000 adolescents ages 12-17 sold illegal drugs during the previous 12 months preceding the survey. The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that nationwide 25.4% of students had been offered, sold, or given an illegal drug by someone on school property. The prevalence of having been offered, sold, or given an illegal drug on school property ranged from 15.5% to 38.7% across state CDC surveys (median: 26.1%) and from 20.3% to 40.0% across local surveys (median: 29.4%). –All this despite tens of billions of taxpayer dollars spent on the War on Drugs, which has crippled our public schools by diverting tax dollars from teachers and books to costly security programs, such as random drug testing, campus police and undercover investigators, hallway video cameras and metal detectors, and after-school programs
I do see your point, however removing these programs would likely escalate the problem even further.
As a high school student myself, I know that many people who use drugs during the summer don’t during the school year because of what we refer to as “the orange slip”.
We also always lie on those surveys. They’re a joke, and the student body loves being creative.
Those studies are bull, I can tell you from experience. No one tells the truth, but RDT and all other methods do alter drug use.
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“I do see your point, however removing these programs would likely escalate the problem even further.”
If you remove the drug dealers you don’t need these programs.
“As a high school student myself, I know that many people who use drugs during the summer don’t during the school year because of what we refer to as “the orange slip”. ”
Orange slip? I just graduated from high school and I know plenty of students use alcohol, weed, parent’s prescripts and other drugs year round, mainly on the weekends.
“We also always lie on those surveys. They’re a joke, and the student body loves being creative. Those studies are bull, I can tell you from experience. No one tells the truth, but RDT and all other methods do alter drug use.”
Nice but weird theory. (Based on your experience?)
Why would far more people lie about marijuana than other drugs? http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/data/05data/pr05t13.pdf
I guess somebody should tell the government who has been doing the student surveys for over three decades that they are wasting their time.
P.S. Random drug testing is a feel good measure for parents who don’t won’t raise their own kids. Pathetic really. Schools are only allowed to test students in extracurricular activities (latin club, chess, marching band, etc), hardly the demographic that has the most drug problems from what I’ve witnessed. Since most schools can only afford the cheap $15 – 35 urine tests, there are many drugs kids can use over the weekend and be clean by Monday.
Check it out because it’s shocking what most of these tests don’t detect:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_testing#Urine_Drug_Testing
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