The ideal time to focus on drug abuse prevention initiatives for teens is before peer pressure and experimentation begin. Education and awareness starts at home, in school, and for many, in religious organizations. Lessons on drug and alcohol use are incorporated into middle and high school curricula and are targeted at prevention and awareness. Random drug testing in schools, the topic of this essay, is developing into a complementary method of drug abuse prevention, potentially more robust than education alone, given its invasive nature and tendency to publicly identify a drug user to his or her peers.