Here are some archived drug test news articles that I thought would be interesting considering they were published a few years ago.  Looks like drug testing not only needs to stay, but also to increase to prevent these issues from recurring…

Welfare Drug Test Plan Put On Hold

Drug testing welfare recipients has come to a full stop in Michigan. Since, 1999, welfare recipients were required to submit to a mandatory drug test. Upon confirmation of a negative drug testing result, the welfare applicant would be eligible for assistance. The requirement, while backed by voters and state legislatures, has come under scrutiny and now into legal territory. Welfare recipients have sued the state of Michigan over the drug testing program, citing its violation of privacy and individual rights.

Court Approves Drug Testing Of High School Athletes

The ongoing saga of high school student drug testing has swept the country by storm, and state by state is slowly being implemented. High school students who participate in athletics (all of the student school drug testing programs hover around extra curricular participants) in an Illinois school district are subject to drug testing. And, the drug testing is completely mandatory without the need for having probable cause. Critics of the high school student drug testing program feel that this mandatory drug testing issue provides even less rights for students as it does adult job employees, and question what evidence exists the thrust of high school student drug users are athletes, band members or other once-respected school programs.

Ohio High Schools Deal With Supplements

Ohio area high school students may be subject to drug testing — very curious drug testing, rather. Ohio high school boards are concerned with high school students taking anabolic steroids. This is a very common and valid concern, which is why the Ohio high schools are considering anabolic steroid drug testing. What is curious is the Ohio school board’s tendency to have “supplement fever.” Meaning, over-the-counter dietary supplements, such as creatine, ephedrine, or Tylenol for that matter, are labeled as dangerous to the students who take them. Hence, the dietary supplements, while not a guaranteed product without possible harm, are being lumped in with anabolic steroids. The Ohio high school board is now considering drug testing for supplements. As incredulous as this sounds, it is true, but the Ohio school board has their work cut out for them. Drug testing for anabolic steroids is at least three times expensive than recreational drug testing, and “drug testing” for dietary supplements could cost a small fortune. Critics wonder if marijuana, cocaine, and ecstasy drug testing should be at the helm of this campaign, because the number of recreational drug users far outweigh those taking anabolic steroids or dietary supplements.

• Procedures For Transportation Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs; Procedures For Non-Evidential Alcohol Screening Devices
• Probation Officer Suspected In Rape - Paroler Made Deal To Pass Drug Test
• School Candidates Debate Issues
• One In 10 Employees Screened For Drugs And Alcohol At Work Are Testing Positive
• Bus Driver Returns To Work Following Drug Violation
• Fired Last Spring When a Random Drug Test Showed Marijuana Use, A Bus Driver
  For Fraser Public Schools Was Scheduled To Return To Work Today
• Maryland School Bus Driver Charged After Crash - At Least 2 Students Injured
• Court Upholds School Policy On Drug Tests In New Jersey
• Schools Test Athletes For Drugs Middletown Says It’s Working
• New Law Says Some Construction Workplaces Must Be Drug-free
• Anti-doping Pilot Project Aims to Cut Athletes’ Use of Banned Hormone EPO
• Drug Testing Proves to be a Valuable Asset