‘Recreational’ but illicit drugs are widely and conveniently available today posing a serious threat to teenagers and even to schoolchildren. To counteract the worrying trend of substance abuse by youngsters and students forces schools to introduce mandatory drug education supported by random drug screening. Whereas drug prevention is mainly left to trained educators, many schools struggle with drug testing, whether it is resistance by students and often parents as well or by inconvenient test procedures and costs.
Urine and Saliva tests are regarded as the most practical screening test methods for schools; both have positive and negative implications.
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