Benefits of Conducting Drug Addiction Tests in the Schools

Generally drug testing is a technical examination of urine, blood, hair and other fluid samples from the body's system and these tests trace weather a person is taking drugs or not. There are different types of drug tests which include urine test, hair follicle test or saliva test, blood test and
the skin test. Number of young people who are abusing drugs are growing and this is a major concern for the society. Students are abusing drugs because of the stress they experience at the school or at the home. So it is necessary to conduct the drug test in schools in order find out the student drug abusers. There are many types of drug tests and to detect a particular drug, particular drug test can be conducted at school.

Following are the benefits of conducting drug tests at the schools:

• Use of the drugs in the schools can increase the criminal activities in the schools, testing for drugs will discourage the students from using drugs and will reduce drug related crimes, making the school environment safe.
• Conducting drug addiction tests at the schools discourages the students from bringing drugs to the school and decreases the use of drugs among the children.
• Drug tests canhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif bring a student's substance abuse problem to the attention of teachers and parents, by this way students can receive the counseling and the treatment needed.
• In some countries like US drug testing at the schools is legalized and in USA schools can develop their own rules and regulations regarding drug testing.

Drug abuse at any age is harmful, particularly if drug abuse is not controlled in adolescent stages, it will turn in to drug addiction. Hence, proper measures should be taken at school to control or prevent drug abuse.