{"id":21770,"date":"2019-09-16T16:01:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T16:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=21770"},"modified":"2019-09-16T16:01:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T16:01:04","slug":"drug-testing-growing-at-an-alarming-rate-in-school-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/drug-testing-growing-at-an-alarming-rate-in-school-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug testing growing at an alarming rate in school districts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drug testing has been increasing at an alarming rate in American school districts. Notably, it can be viewed as a reaction to various developments, such as liberalization of marijuana laws and the thriving opioid epidemic.\u00a0<\/b>
\nAccording to Dr. Paul Glaser, a child psychiatry expert at Washington University School of Medicine located in St. Louis, a considerable fear exists if marijuana is legalized as many teens may be prompted to use.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Drug testing thriving in schools<\/b><\/h2>\n

According to <\/b>federal government research<\/b><\/a>, about thirty-eight percent (38%) of school districts incorporated drug testing strategies in 2016. This is a significant rise from a quarter of them ten (10) years ago.\u00a0<\/b>
\nA worrying trend has, however, been witnessed because as drug testing is rising in school districts, drug prevention measures are not considerably being emphasized.\u00a0<\/b>
\nFor instance, a recent study by the school health policies and practices revealed that the number of districts necessitating elementary schools to educate learners about alcohol and drug prevention has been declining.\u00a0<\/span>
\nConsequently, the arrangements are being made with off-site firms to offer drug treatment and the provision of funds needed for professional drug prevention strategies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Drug testing prompted in extracurricular activities<\/b><\/h2>\n

Aura and Morgan Brillhart aged thirteen (13) and eleven (11) years respectively will be subjected to a new form of drug test. This trend has been rampant in high and middle schools located in Fort Scott, Kansas.\u00a0<\/b>
\nThe siblings are among learners who will be required to carry out drug tests whenever they are to participate in dances, clubs, and sports, among other extracurricular activities.<\/b>
\nTheir mother, Jody Hoener, asserted that drug usage was an issue that should not be in oblivion as it is rampant; hence, it ought to be amicably addressed through approaches, such as drug testing.\u00a0<\/span>
\nBushland Independent School District that is close to Amarillo, Texas, is another American community that has necessitated the testing of learners as young as eleven (11) years for any form of illicit drug usage. Notably, the program in Bushland community costs nearly ten thousand dollars (US<\/b>$10,000)<\/b> annually, whereas the one in Fort Scott is approximately four thousand dollars (US<\/b>$4,000).<\/b>
\nAccording to Fort Scott High School\u2019s principal, Amber Toth, preventing drug addiction and abuse for one student is a costly exercise because it is worth four thousand dollars (US<\/span>$4,000).\u00a0<\/span>
\nOn the other hand, it has been stipulated that <\/span>US schools are still at risk because of gun violence and mass shootings<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drug testing has been increasing at an alarming rate in American school districts. Notably, it can be viewed as a reaction to various developments, such as liberalization of marijuana laws and the thriving opioid epidemic.\u00a0 According to Dr. Paul Glaser, a child psychiatry expert at Washington University School of Medicine located in St. Louis, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":21771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}