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SOME SCHOOLS ARE TESTING HAIR FOR DRUGS
A procedure to detect illicit drug use by testing hair is being
adopted at some schools, primarily private ones. Civil liberties
groups, which oppose the tests, argue that they are inaccurate.
o Hair testing is based on the premise that drugs ingested
in the body travel through the bloodstream and are
deposited in hair follicles roughly in proportion to the
amount of the drug taken.
o Since hair grows at the rate of half-an-inch a month, the
test uses the inch and one-half closest to the scalp to
detect drug use during the latest 90 days.
o Questions have been raised, however, as to whether drug
molecules bind more to coarser black hair than to lighter
hair and whether passive exposure to marijuana or other
smoked drugs could produce a false positive.
Private schools can make drug testing a condition of enrollment
without inviting lawsuits.
But public schools cannot Yet two public school principals in
New Orleans want to initiate hair tests. The American Civil
Liberties Union of Louisiana has warned that it would file suit
if testing is implemented.
Source: Christopher S. Wren, "Hair Testing by Schools Intensifies
Drug Debate," New York Times, June 14, 1999.
For more on Other Education Issues
http://www.ncpa.org/pi/edu/edu7c.html
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