The Abbey School in Faversham, Kent, last week became the first state school to administer the controversial tests. Twenty pupils had mouth swabs taken as they arrived for the new term and the school plans to continue randomly testing up to 20 pupils a week as well as staff members.
Drugs charities and civil liberties campaigners have voiced strong opposition to the practice of testing children, while parents and teachers have condemned rolling it out for teachers.
But head teacher Peter Walker revealed that many other state schools had expressed an interest in the scheme.
"A lot of schools want to be kept informed," he said. "I've already had interest from Manchester, Preston, Bristol, London and Kent itself and that's just in the UK. I've also been contacted by schools in Australia, Kenya, India and Spain and asked for advice and help."
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