School athletes become role models for many young people. They represent the idea of youth, strength, and health (Hart & Ksir, 2015). When it turns out to be that an athlete uses steroids or some other drugs, this beautiful picture is broken into pieces and can hardly be repaired. Therefore, the idea of random drug testing has to be promoted in schools to meet certain economic, sport, psychological, and social benefits (Sprague, 2016).
When students decide to participate in a decathlon or cheerleading, they have to understand what kind of responsibility occurs. In addition to the necessity to follow a healthy style of life, sports students should motivate other students and provide them with the necessary portion of support in case of emergency. Still, students are young people whose minds can be easily influenced and provoked. Therefore, it is wrong to believe that all sports students may avoid temptation.
Control is required just to protect all students (Sprague, 2016). High school students should be eager to complete drug testing regularly to prove their confidence and trust to their teachers and their families and to check their health. If they have nothing to hide, it can be easy to take a test and destroy any judgments or doubts. If there are some problems, they have to be solved as soon as possible. I want to believe that random drug testing can hardly decrease illicit drug use because it is wrong to believe in probability when students’ health is considered.
All students have to be checked for drugs regularly without providing details about dates and places. In other words, athletes, as well as other students, should not be afraid of “being cut”, “ripped”, or “shredded”. Otherwise, sport is not the field to pay attention to (Hart & Ksir, 2015).
References
Hart, C., & Ksir, C. (2015). Drugs, society and human behavior (16th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
Sprague, N. (2016). Random drug testing in schools. Research Starters Education, 1-6.