1 There is already a lot of drug testing going on. It is big in sport, of course. Swabs are also taken in custody suites at police stations, as part of prolific offender profiling schemes and in drug-treatment centres. There is also a considerable amount of occupational testing for employees working in areas such as the rail and airline industries. All indicators are that testing is on the increase.
2 One reason random drug testing of young people is on the agenda is that the technology has become more user-friendly. In the past, blood or, more likely, urine samples were the norm. The prospect of state schools supervising the taking of urine samples from 13- and 14-year-olds was, frankly, highly unlikely.
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