Why We Should Be Drug Tested In Schools

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“Drugs take you to Hell, disguised as Heaven” (Frost 1). People may, even children may be hooked on drugs and just cannot get enough ‘til something bad happens. In 2012 a survey asking teens have they use a drug substance in less than a year, and 46,000 teens said ‘yes’.Teens are getting involved with the use of drugs more commonly. Teenagers never really think about what can happen. Those teens who said yes of using a drug in the last year have a life expectancy of 28 years of age. That’s a very young age. When people use a drug they feel as if they stepped in Heaven, but in reality they stepped in Hell. Students attending Middle School in the United States should be drug tested because kids are afraid of being caught, drug tests can prevent drug use in future, and dreams can be crushed by the choice of drug use.
Drug tests in schools can prevent students from doing drugs because they are afraid of getting caught by teachers and parents. Kids are afraid of being caught doing bad things such as drugs. “He just called your name so you get so scared you 're in trouble," said Brooke Flickinger. "So you start freaking out, it 's something else”,... (Flickinger 1).Kids are afraid of getting caught because they know that they will get in trouble. If kids realize that the school is taking surprize drug tests it …show more content…

Kids can’t handle what others can handle. Kids may be peer pressured into drugs and are hooked from every moment out. So having drug tests will help that kid and provide the support they need to because a successful person. Just as Donald Lyn Frost said “Drugs take you to Hell, disguised as Heaven” because that use of drug feels so great to addicts they might describe as Heaven but really don’t realize they they are stepping into