School Decides To Use Random Dog Searches Instead of Random Drug Testing

In: Drug Testing News

18 Nov 2011

After bath salts were discovered at Camden Hills Regional High School in Maine, the administration has agreed to not randomly drug test the students, but will instead use drug sniffing police dogs.

Five Town Community School District Superintendent, William Shuttleworth, stated that “No school is ever safe if drugs are flowing through the veins of its halls.”

Bath salts are becoming increasingly more popular not just with teens, but in any age range. The bath salts were found in a chair by a student who turned them into a teacher, who then contacted authorities. Prior to this the school has considered different options to deal with increased drug use cases. After the discovery of these bath salts a commission of law enforcement, counselors, and members of the medical society was created to discuss bath salts and the drug sniffing police dogs.

The school will not announce when the dogs are coming and they will search the inside and outside of the school. Camden Hills Principal, Nick Ithomitis, said “Do I think we will find bath salts – no. Do I think we will find other things – yes we will not trample rights, but we will do what we need to do.”

According to Rockport Police Chief Mark Kelley the student who had the bath salt has come forward and admitted to possessing the drug. It appears to be a one-time incident.

Sharon McDermott, director of the special care unit at Pen Bay Medical Center described a person on bath salts as a roller coaster, and even after a patient seems fine, delusions seem to come back hours, even days, later. She is stated as saying “these people are delusional, paranoid, psychotic and fighting for their lives. You are in their way and they will go over you and they will go through you.”

Although many people choose to use bath salts because they feel they are still able to pass a drug test after using the substance, drug testing companies are now catching on to these synthetic drug trends. These new drug tests will be able to detect the common chemicals that are used to create bath salts.

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