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National Collegiate Athletic Association (NJ1), 2010
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Drug-Testing Program was created to protect the health and safety of student-athletes and to ensure that no one participant might have an artificially induced advantage or be pressured to use chemical substances. This publication describes this program in the following chapters: (1) NCAA…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Drug Use Testing, Athletes, Drug Abuse
Brady, Lisa A. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2008
Today, there is a collective national awareness that an unacceptable number of teens are involved in the use of dangerous drugs such as methamphetamine, ecstasy, and heroin, and they have access to high-grade marijuana. Alcohol use, even more pervasive, results in risky sexual behaviors, automobile accidents, and even death. To the dismay of many…
Descriptors: Drug Use Testing, Testing Programs, High Schools, Drinking
Brady, Lisa A. – School Administrator, 2008
With 10 years of experience leading schools through random drug testing programs, the author, a superintendent, is convinced she's on the right track. At Hunterdon Central Regional High School District in Flemington, New Jersey, a school where she works as a superintendent, the author relates that they have seen a significant and well-documented…
Descriptors: Drug Use Testing, Testing Programs, High Schools, Drinking
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Etzel, Edward F.; Watson, Jack C.; Visek, Amanda J.; Maniar, Sameep D. – NASPA Journal, 2006
Collegiate student athletes are faced with the same developmental challenges and stressors as their nonathlete peers, but they are also expected to deal with the challenges of athletic involvement (e.g., time demands, physical demands, travel schedules). Such additional demands may put athletes at greater risk for experiencing physical and…
Descriptors: College Students, Athletes, Student Personnel Workers, College Athletics
Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor. – 1991
This report discusses the need for an alcohol and drug use prevention program at the University of Michigan and presents findings from a task force that was established to investigate the problem of student alcohol and other drug use and identify areas where priority should be given for action. The opening section of the report presents the…
Descriptors: Advertising, Alcohol Abuse, College Students, Drinking