The recreational use of drugs is an under-recognized cause of mortality and incidence of disease among children in this society now. This issue becomes more priority to solve by the government because will lead to serious public health problems. However, children now still want to try drugs at any time without parental control although parents, schools, and the federal government had installed knowledge in the children about drugs such as “just say no” to drugs. According to research, the percentage of drug abuse among children revealed an increasing number, especially among school students. Also, this percentage will lead to the development of the nation in the future. Therefore, children should occasionally be tested for drugs in school so that it can protect their health, the school can discover the real drug abuser and the possibility of decreasing the number of drug smugglers.
Firstly, drug testing in school can protect children’s health. This is because drug testing can allow for early detection and intervention by schools so that they can take earlier action to prevent children from misusing drugs. For example, schools must perform strict regulations for children such as they can require children must join co-curricular activities after school to educate children to live an active and healthy lifestyle so that they will not have extra time to realize anything about drugs. Co-curricular activities also can provide stress relief and develop self-confidence. This is because many children have become drug users and the main causes are curiosity and peer pressure. As a result, drug testing is a protective measure to assure that school is a safe place to protect children from harm.
Moreover, children should be occasionally tested for drugs because schools can discover the real drug abusers at school. This is because school has a responsibility to survey the reason of numerous drug users are children in school. For instance, schools can separate the children who are abusing drugs from other classrooms so that can be more focused to find out the reasons and solve the problem as fast as possible. This action will cause the parents to be willing to send their children to school. In this way, children are given a chance to restore their reputations and have a successful future before everything could be too late. Consequently, drug testing can avoid the possibility of children to get failure in their own future.
Some may claim that the false results of drug testing are inevitable. Certainly, some food products that contain poppy seeds also will bring about a positive drug test result even though some children are not using drugs at all. This result can destroy someone's self-esteem because children cannot accept accusations from others with the wrong facts. However, a drug test can decrease the possibility of the number of drug smugglers. Thus, schools can force the drug users and cooperation with them to find out the drug providers so that if the drug users are willing to cooperate with the school, they may give some reward to drug users in school such as can reduce the penalties.
In conclusion, drug testing is an important activity to quickly detect drug abusers. Nowadays, some drug users are children because of curiosity and lack of concern. Also, they do not know drugs will damage health so drug testing must be held in schools to help the drug users. Hence, parents should improve relationships with their children from an early age and encourage positive behavior. Schools should give proper counseling for drug abusers to enlighten them to cherish their life. Lastly, drug testing is to let schools have earlier action to prevent more drug abusers.