Drug abuse not only interferes with a student’s ability to learn but can also disrupt the teaching environment. Student athletic drug and alcohol testing impacts other students as well. Drug testing is one of several tools that schools can use as part of a comprehensive drug prevention effort. Administrators in schools with a student drug testing program view testing as a deterrent and believe it gives students a reason to resist peer pressure to use drugs.
Drug testing can identify students who have started using drugs so that interventions can occur early, or it can identify students who already have drug problems and refer them for assessment and treatment. Schools have the option of randomly testing specific groups of students. Such groups typically include student athletes, students involved in extracurricular competitive activities, and students who, along with their parents, provide written consent to be voluntarily tested.
Transmetron provides services to high schools and colleges. Some of the institutions we regularly provide testing services for include Judge Memorial High School, Salt Lake Community College, and the University of Utah.
