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NEWS: The Age - 17/08/2006 'Baillieu urged to drug test school students'

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Baillieu urged to drug test school students
Paul Austin
August 17, 2006

LIBERAL leader Ted Baillieu is being urged to introduce drug testing in secondary schools if he wins November's state election.

The Liberals' state council meeting this weekend will debate a resolution calling on a Baillieu government to order government schools to conduct "health tests" to detect whether students are using drugs.

The South Yarra branch of the party, which will move the resolution, has circulated a supporting statement to delegates which says: "The use of illicit drugs is escalating to the extent that we must do more to detect its early use, because many parents are the last to know their child is rapidly becoming addicted to drugs." The branch says abuse of illicit drugs leads to hundreds of deaths and costs the Federal Government about $6.1 billion a year. It cites federal Health Department research showing that 36 per cent of 12 to 17-year-olds surveyed had used cannabis, "a drug that leads to the use of harder drugs such as ecstasy, speed, LSD, heroin and cocaine".
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From The Age

Don't the Vic Liberals know that people seem to be ignoring the just-say-no message? :)
 
^ Maybe Angus Kennett can get round to the schools to give them the 'just say no' talk ;)
 
katmeow said:
^ Maybe Angus Kennett can get round to the schools to give them the 'just say no' talk ;)
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HAHAHA! Yeah i'm sure the victorian liberals could have timed this a bit better!
 
And what will they do if they detect you've been taking drugs? Suspend you? Tell your parents? See the school guidance councilor? lol!
 
And what will they do if they detect you've been taking drugs? Suspend you? Tell your parents? See the school guidance councilor? lol!
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Whatever the branding via consequence, it will certainly not help the person become an integrated member of society IMO

The second likely outcome from this would be an increase in the use of drugs not detectable via immunolabeling techniques. If they are not testing for a specific class of drug, either because it is novel, or because no field test has yet been developed, then it's reasonable to expect experimentation will focus more on these substances.

Again, this is simply a mean of tagging young drug users and potentially ruining their lives :\

What the proponents of such a system need to do is to be objective. If their proposals didn't work in the way intended, what changes in young user trends may develop as a result of compulsory testing?
 
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