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May 2008, Vol 98, No. 5 | American Journal of Public Health 826-828
© 2008 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.123430

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Random Drug Testing in US Public School Districts

Chris Ringwalt, DrPH, Amy A. Vincus, MPH, Susan T. Ennett, PhD, MSPH, Sean Hanley, MPH, J. Michael Bowling, PhD, George S. Yacoubian, Jr, JD, PhD and Louise A. Rohrbach, PhD, MPH

Chris Ringwalt, Amy A. Vincus, and Sean Hanley are with the Chapel Hill Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Chapel Hill, NC. Susan T. Ennett and J. Michael Bowling are with the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. George S. Yacoubian Jr is a consultant to the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Chapel Hill. Louise A. Rohrbach is with the Department of Preventive Medicine, Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Chris Ringwalt, DrPH, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 1516 E Franklin St, Suite 200, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (e-mail: ringwalt{at}pire.org).

We estimated the proportion of the nation’s public school districts that have high school grades in which random drug testing is conducted. We collected data in spring 2005 from 1343 drug prevention coordinators in a nationally representative sample of school districts with schools that have high school grades; of these districts, 14% conducted random drug testing. Almost all districts randomly tested athletes, and 65% randomly tested other students engaged in extracurricular activities; 28% randomly tested all students, exceeding the current sanction of the US Supreme Court.






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