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Brady, Lisa A. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2008
Today, there is a collective national awareness that an unacceptable number of teens are involved in the use of dangerous drugs such as methamphetamine, ecstasy, and heroin, and they have access to high-grade marijuana. Alcohol use, even more pervasive, results in risky sexual behaviors, automobile accidents, and even death. To the dismay of many…
Descriptors: Drug Use Testing, Testing Programs, High Schools, Drinking
Brady, Lisa A. – School Administrator, 2008
With 10 years of experience leading schools through random drug testing programs, the author, a superintendent, is convinced she's on the right track. At Hunterdon Central Regional High School District in Flemington, New Jersey, a school where she works as a superintendent, the author relates that they have seen a significant and well-documented…
Descriptors: Drug Use Testing, Testing Programs, High Schools, Drinking
Brady, Lisa – American School Board Journal, 2003
Describes a successful random drug-testing program for athletes and students involved in school-sponsored activities at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, New Jersey. Urges all high schools to implement a random drug-testing program. (PKP)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Drug Use Testing, High Schools
LaFee, Scott – School Administrator, 2006
In February 2005, The Dallas Morning News published a multipart series on steroid use among high school students in Texas. The paper's four-month investigation was wide-ranging, but shined a particular spotlight upon alleged abuses in the 13,700-student Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District, north of Dallas. Use of steroids and other…
Descriptors: Investigations, Boards of Education, Extracurricular Activities, Drug Abuse
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Strusinski, Marianne; Collins, Robert A. – ERS Spectrum, 1999
Evaluates a program that rewards Miami-area youths for adhering to a drug-free lifestyle. Students may belong to the Drug Free Youth in Town Club by presenting clear urine samples and agreeing to random testing. Principals and students like the program, which includes a community-service component. (MLH)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Services, Drug Education, Drug Use Testing