drug testing

Discusses whether performance-enhancing drugs should be tolerated, how testing of professional athletes should be handled, and whether testing student athletes is effective and necessary.

Presents information about the rights and responsibilities of teenagers with regard to protection from unlawful search and seizure.

Presents a collecton of essays examining the controversy over student drug testing, including its efficacy, legality, and consequences.

Examines differing opinions on the topic of drug testing by employers, in schools, and in sports as a means of curbing drug abuse.

Essays provide different perspectives on such issues as drug legalization, testing in the workplace, and the effectiveness of antidrug programs in schools and prisons.

Performance-enhancing drugs have tainted the accomplishments of athletes in many sports, especially at professional and Olympic levels. Traced are the issues related to athletes and drug use, its testing and debates whether testing is helping curb drug use.

Discusses drug testing, providing information on the different types, where and how they are used, and one's legal rights. Includes a glossary and a list of resources.

Presents a collection of essays that examine the issues related to drug testing programs, providing a discussion of legal issues, reliability of the drug-detection test, cost effectiveness, and individual rights.

Describes the 1995 Supreme Court case which held that public school officials could do mandatory drug testing if they showed that a drug problem existed among the students, even though individual students were not suspected.

Besides describing the effects of marijuana, this volume also provides information about drug testing, dependence and withdrawal, and finding help for treatment.