Drug testing is not effective when trying to eliminate drug usage among student athletes (Kern, et al.). It is not surprising that public schools have been asked to address the problem of drug and alcohol abuse. Drug testing may have good results, but the problems outweigh the help it provides. Drug testing student athletes can have a negative impact on the classroom. Drug testing can result in false positives that punish innocent student athletes. Also, drug testing can be useless when and if the student athletes know how to outsmart the drug test. Drug testing of high school athletes has a negative impact on the classrooms, it punishes innocent students, and it can sometimes be completely useless when students know how to outsmart the test. Therefore in summary, drug testing penalizes student athletes more than it helps them.