Drug Testing Reduces Students' Drug Use, Federal Study Finds.

Education Week (7/13, Samuels) reported, "Students involved in extracurricular activities and subject to in-school random drug testing reported less substance use than their peers in high schools that didn't have drug-testing programs, according a federal evaluation of 4,700 students spread across seven states. The study was funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, a branch of" the Education Department, "and conducted by RMC Research Corporation in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. and the Princeton, New Jersey-based Mathematica Policy Research." Education Week added that according to the report 16 percent "of students subject to drug testing in the study reported using substances covered by their district's testing program in the past 30 days, compared to 22 percent of comparable students in schools without the program."