More Quotes

Here's quotes for some of the negative arguments:

Random drug testing violates privacy
“…. We're talking about lining up teen-agers in order to inspect their urine for evidence of drugs. America's legal system is often absurd. Here is one more example. The Supreme Court has given public elementary and high schools permission to drug-test athletes simply because they are athletes. No suspicion necessary; no probable cause necessary; no evidence of wrongdoing necessary. If you are a public-school athlete, you can be tested. By playing a game, you forfeit part of the privacy and protection against unreasonable search guaranteed by this country's Constitution.”
- Dave Kindred, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution

"Children are compelled to attend school, but nothing suggests that they lose their right to privacy in their excretory functions when they do so,"
- Judge Ferdinand F. Fernandez
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Random drug testing won’t prevent drug use
“ It is ludicrous to believe that testing a few athletes - a minority at all schools - will prevent drug use by a majority of users. No survey has ever shown that most teen-age drug users are high school athletes. More likely, most users prefer a less- disciplined lifestyle that hides them from authority figures.”
- Dave Kindred, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution

"Drug testing, by invading the privacy of student athletes and by making continued drug use difficult or impossible, will most probably lead marginal student athletes to "quit the team." Freed from the regimen of athletics, these former athletes may revert to the drug use patterns of their nonathlete peers--who have higher rates of drug usage than athletes"
-Robert Taylor, CATO Journal

Random drug testing reveals private medications
“Occasionally, legal over-the lab test as illegal drugs. To avoid confusion, test subjects are often asked to list medications they're using. But providing this "alibi" could pose other dilemmas, such as revealing contraceptive use or private medical information.”
-Kathiann M. Kowalski, Current Health

Random drug testing makes all athletes look like criminals
"Some argue that students who aren't doing anything wrong have nothing to fear. This ignores the fact that what they fear is not getting caught, but the loss of dignity and trust that the drug test represents." -American Civil Liberties Union