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The Use Of Drug Testing

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In 1986, the Reagan Administration, implemented the use of drug testing. Since then it has been used in businesses among the United States. In 1995, the state of Oregon was seeing an increase in students using drugs. They fought this by putting drug tests into place for extracurricular activities such as football. In the supreme court case Veronica v. Acton, the court sided with Veronica, the town, and said that drug testing didn't violate the 4th Amendment. A drug test is a biological test which means that it is given either through urine, breath, saliva, blood, sweat. Their purpose is to find out if you have any drugs in your system that aren't supposed to be there. A urine test is very quick, and just tests your urine to see if there

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