With these facts in mind and the understanding that drug testing among athletes helps to deter the use of performance enhancing drugs officials are considering doing the same before major testing in schools. Recently there € been an increase in the use of cognitive enhancing drugs among academics. Drugs like methylphenidate are taken just before a major test to aid the user in achieving better scores on their tests than they would without.

While the drug doesn € t dramatically increase the skill level of the user it does give them an edge over their normal scores. The rate of this type of drug abuse is at about 25% on US campuses. To make matters worse new drugs being developed for treating Alzheimer € disease could up the effectiveness of such drug abuse. Drug Testing Could Extend to Before Testing Students October 14 Leave a reply Drug testing among athletes has become a com regulation in the US and now testing before tests could join it.

This means that essentially these drugs (primarily drugs used for ADHD) are being used to cheat the system, which not only negates the purpose for the testing in the first place but leaves students who aren € t using the drug in the dust.