Today in the United States drug use is rising and is becoming an increasing problem. Due to this, many school officials have made their student athletes take mandatory random drug tests. This strategy has been proven to fail in various situations and has also been proven to be very costly with no definite effects. Therefore, no testing of this kind should be permitted in any high school in the United States.
Many people disagree and believe that the testing of high school athletes results in huge benefits. They believe one of the advantages would include decreasing the amount of drug use among high school students. Another advantage would be officials promoting fair play in athletics. With these and various other arguments, many people have sided with taking mandatory drug tests.