School Based Alcohol and Drug Testing
Every school system has an interest in preventing drug and alcohol abuse in its student populations. Just as alcohol abuse is the source of many problems in society, school campuses across the country must wrestle with the same alcohol based disruptions and often traumatic consequences. Regardless if it is from students bringing alcohol onto the campus, students coming to school under the influence of alcohol or attending extracurricular activities under the influence.
The school years are the time when the physical, psychological and addictive effects of drugs and alcohol are most severe. Children grow chemically dependent faster than adults and their record of successful recovery is extremely poor. Children’s lost educational opportunities will affect the rest of their lives. The effects of drug and alcohol abuse is not limited to the abuser, the student body, faculty and the entire educational process are all victims.
We have a compelling need to protect our children and provide a safe and drug-free learning environment in our schools. Drug and alcohol testing may be an appropriate means of addressing this need. When properly conducted, such testing intrudes only minimally on individual’s privacy expectations. In addition, drug testing provides an effective means of deterrence and detection that cannot be achieved by other methods.
Educators across the country have come to PAS Systems International Inc., for an easy and reliable tool that allows the operator to screen a person’s breath just by speaking or exhaling. Also, they have come to us for a simple but reliable way to detect alcohol in an open container or an enclosed space, such as a locker or the interior of a vehicle. Take an example of a case study performed at the Downingtown High School in Pennsylvania. Below is a copy of an article, “A 15-Second Solution”, published in the Campus Safety Journal in February 2003 describing the Downingtown experience and the PAS Systems International products used in their alcohol detection and deterrence program.
The school years are the time when the physical, psychological and addictive effects of drugs and alcohol are most severe. Children grow chemically dependent faster than adults and their record of successful recovery is extremely poor. Children’s lost educational opportunities will affect the rest of their lives. The effects of drug and alcohol abuse is not limited to the abuser, the student body, faculty and the entire educational process are all victims.
We have a compelling need to protect our children and provide a safe and drug-free learning environment in our schools. Drug and alcohol testing may be an appropriate means of addressing this need. When properly conducted, such testing intrudes only minimally on individual’s privacy expectations. In addition, drug testing provides an effective means of deterrence and detection that cannot be achieved by other methods.
Educators across the country have come to PAS Systems International Inc., for an easy and reliable tool that allows the operator to screen a person’s breath just by speaking or exhaling. Also, they have come to us for a simple but reliable way to detect alcohol in an open container or an enclosed space, such as a locker or the interior of a vehicle. Take an example of a case study performed at the Downingtown High School in Pennsylvania. Below is a copy of an article, “A 15-Second Solution”, published in the Campus Safety Journal in February 2003 describing the Downingtown experience and the PAS Systems International products used in their alcohol detection and deterrence program.
