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04-22-2006, 02:00 PM
[quote]It could benefit your teenager
By TERRY L. STAWAR
newsroom@news-tribune.net
http://www.news-tribune.net/opinion/local_story_111091634.html
Last year over 26 percent of Indiana high school seniors reported that they had rode in a car driven by a drunk driver that year. Over 41 percent indicated that they used alcohol monthly, and over 17 percent reported monthly use of marijuana. This is a sure and certain recipe for tragedy, as recent local events have sadly borne out.
My wife, Diane, who counsels youth and families at Brandon’s House in New Albany, suggested this column after reading in Newsweek how at home drug testing for teen-agers is widely being used to identify teens in need of help.
Non-medical drug testing has grown into a major industry in America. Random drug testing is de rigueur for most sensitive businesses, and in 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court, supported a school district
By TERRY L. STAWAR
newsroom@news-tribune.net
http://www.news-tribune.net/opinion/local_story_111091634.html
Last year over 26 percent of Indiana high school seniors reported that they had rode in a car driven by a drunk driver that year. Over 41 percent indicated that they used alcohol monthly, and over 17 percent reported monthly use of marijuana. This is a sure and certain recipe for tragedy, as recent local events have sadly borne out.
My wife, Diane, who counsels youth and families at Brandon’s House in New Albany, suggested this column after reading in Newsweek how at home drug testing for teen-agers is widely being used to identify teens in need of help.
Non-medical drug testing has grown into a major industry in America. Random drug testing is de rigueur for most sensitive businesses, and in 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court, supported a school district