Students swap cannabis for hard-to-detect substances, study suggests
Random testing has side-effect of boosting use of harder drugs
Published in TES magazine
... About 28 per cent of American high school students are now subject to
drug testing. In recent years, the introduction of drug testing has
been suggested by governments in countries including the UK, Australia
and Sweden.
“I think school leaders should realise that drug
testing does not have a simple association with student drug use,” said
Yvonne Terry-McElrath, from the University of Michigan’s Institute for
Social Research, one of the authors of the study.
“It is likely
that a drug-testing programme would associate with some degree of
decrease in marijuana use but also with some degree of increase in use
of other illicit drugs,” she said.
“It is clear that drug testing is not
providing the solution for substance-use prevention that its advocates
claim.”
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