{"id":6342,"date":"2016-10-19T16:31:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T22:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=6342"},"modified":"2016-10-19T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T22:31:51","slug":"american-academy-pediatrics-recommends-drug-testing-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/19\/american-academy-pediatrics-recommends-drug-testing-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"American Academy of Pediatrics recommends AGAINST drug testing in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Park City School District moves closer to drug testing our students, there’s one group adamantly opposed to the idea. It turns out that the <\/span>American Academy of Pediatrics <\/span><\/a>“opposes in school drug testing due to lack of evidence.” In fact they created a <\/span>policy paper and technical report<\/span><\/a> on it. Their main concerns?<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Limited evidence of efficacy<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Decreased participation in sports<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Breach of confidentiality<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Increases in use of substances not included on testing panels<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Increases in the number of students facing disciplinary action (whether official or not)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We find #4 interesting. During an interview on KPCW, Superintendent Ember Conley noted that drug tests don’t screen for synthetic drugs, which is the type of drug that allegedly took the life of two students in Park City recently. Does drug testing just drive other kids to those same dangerous, synthetic drugs because they won’t be caught?<\/span><\/p>\n

    Perhaps the better question is if your child’s pediatrician recommended something for your kid, wouldn’t you do it? Then why are we going to ignore their recommendation this time?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As the Park City School District moves closer to drug testing our students, there’s one group adamantly opposed to the idea. It turns out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}