What is drug testing? Drug testing is an examination of biological material such as urine, hair, saliva, or sweat to detect the presence of specific drugs and determine past drug use. Student random drug testing, RSDT, programs are becoming more common (Edwards). RSDT can help identify students who are already abusing illicit drugs. Yet most schools are only testing students, when they should be testing teachers and staff as well. Illicit drug use interferes with the ability to learn, affects the learning of other students, and disrupts the (random) teaching environment. Even though drug testing seems like a good idea on the surface, it may not be the best decision in all circumstances. Drug testing in high schools won't do much good. This will lead to the use of other drugs and create more problems with alternative use and more devious behavior. Drug testing does not prevent or prevent drug abuse. This usually pushes them to take harder drugs or find themselves in unusual situations. Many changes have been made to current school systems to help prevent drug use among their students, beyond just drug testing. They introduced a zero tolerance policy. In schools, common zero-tolerance policies concern the possession or use of drugs or weapons. Students, and sometimes staff, parents and other visitors, who possess a prohibited item for any reason should always be punished. They also introduced metal detectors, sniffer dogs and camera systems. The zero tolerance policy has proven effective in reducing the presence of these objects on school grounds, but does not prevent them outside of school walls. So how can we keep students drug free outside of schools. There are moral aspects to student drug testing... middle of paper ...... ext. Internet. November 25, 2013. Yamaguchi, Ryoko, “Relationship between student and illicit drug use and school.” Student Drug Testing.org. 2003. PDF file. Yamaguchi, Ryoko. “School drug testing: policies, practices, and association with student drug use.” DrugPolicy.org. 2003. PDF file.