The document discusses the negative effects of drug abuse in schools. It notes that drug abuse can lead to changes in brain function and negatively impact school work and mental health. The document advocates for increasing drug testing in schools as a way to identify drug users early, provide intervention, and help deter drug use among students. It also discusses the goals of drug prevention programs in schools, such as building self-esteem and raising awareness of the problems associated with drug abuse.

2. Drug Abuse,
Users lose
 Release of dopamine:
 Triggers Pleasure and
happiness in your brain
 Want to repeat the feeling
 Leads to abuse
 Changes in brain
 No longer clearly thinking
 Affect school work
 Possible over dose

3. Use in schools:
Negative all around
 Drug abuse leading cause of death in teenagers
at about 24%
 Contributes to over 50% of suicides
 90% of violence on school grounds
 Leading cause of college drop outs
 Source: www.fit.edu

4. Positive Impact of drug
testing in schools
 Identification of commonly abused drugs
 Discovery of offenders as well as lead to drug
smugglers
 Pursuance of reach out activities and
programs to victims of drug abuse
 Further protection and safeguard at school
 Eliminate influence and peer pressure to use
drugs
 Educate and liberate students to live a
healthy and productive lifestyle
 Source: testingcountry.com

5. Changing The Outcomes:
Starting with Testing
 Problems with testing currently:
 Only about 5% of schools report routine drug
tests
 Drug tests don’t directly correlate with survey
responses of students using drugs
 Not of whole student body, only random
 Costly
Source: www.fit.edu

6.  Costs about $15 for individual tests on students
 Detects: Marijuana, tobacco, cocaine, heroin
 Steroids tests cost $100
 Only 5% of schools test athletes
 Serve two main purposes
 Deterrent
 Allow early intervention of current users
The Truth About Tests

7. “I declare the 4th”
 4th amendment right states “to be secure in persons houses”
“against unreasonable searches and seizures”
 Many argue drug testing allowance in schools
 However…
 Drugs are proven to have negative effects on the body as well as
school work
 Student’s on school grounds
Source:
www.unodc.org

8. Sales
 80% of students report seeing drugs being sold
or used in school
 Over $60 billion a year spent on illegal drugs
 Leads to greater punishment outside of school
 Needs to be stopped early-at education level
Source: www.drugabuse.com

9. Stimulants
 Excite the central nervous system
 Most popular in schools: cocaine, nicotine
 The effects in the end
 Increased aggressiveness
 Tremors, headaches, nausea
 Long spans of no eating or sleeping
 All negatively effect school work

10. Pain killers
 Most popular in schools: Vicodin, OxyContin
 Cause:
 Drowsiness
 Confusion
 Slurred speech
 Addiction
 Work by interfering with pain messages sent to
the brain’s receptors

11. To Teach or Test?
 Proven to be more
preventative  Data of drug use in areas
 Stops use in future  Data on drugs in use
 Informs of effects and  Able to intervene on drug use
changes in body and attitude early
 May help those who directly  Eliminate those doing drugs
or indirectly experience drug who may peer pressures
problems

12. Drug Free Schools and Communities Act
Amendments of 1989
 Serves to monitor drug education
 In order to receive state funds, school must
prove their program includes:
 Age appropriate material
 Teaches that illegal drugs are harmful
 Consequences of drugs use on school property

13. Goals of Drug Prevention Programs
 Establishing greater parent communication
 Teaching negative effects of drug use
 Building self esteem
 Raising awareness of problems
 Creating Confidence
 Alternative to reaching for drugs

14. Increasing Popularity
 Marijuana most popular
 2011 Marijuana use :
 *8% 8th graders
*40% 12th graders
 Affects
 Decreased studies
 Lowers attention span
 Decrease in memory

15.  Something needs to be done today to stop the
increasing use of illegal drugs
 Concentration on prevention in school
 Increase education to lead to prevention
Change now

16. Work Cited
 "Teen Drug Abuse." - Troubled Teens Are Resorting to Drugs. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 14 Oct. 2012. <http://www.teendrugabuse.us/>.
 "Florida Institute of Technology." Florida Institute of Technology.
N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Oct. 2012. <http://www.fit.edu/>.
 "Study: Teen Drug Use at Schools Worsens." Study: Teen Drug Use
at Schools Worsens. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Oct. 2012.
<http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/8/16/111443.shtml>.
 "Home | National Institute on Drug Abuse." Home | National
Institute on Drug Abuse. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Oct. 2012.
<http://www.drugabuse.gov/>.
 "WOW Names!" WOW Names! N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2012.
<http://www.sciencemuseum.org/>.