How effective is street drug testing ?
Publisher: Altgeorgia, Georgia
Volume: 39 pages , pdf
Description
Since 2006, tens of thousands of people annually have been detained by the police on the streets and tested for the presence of illegal drugs and metabolites of illegal drugs in Georgia. Positive test results lead to heavy fines or imprisonment. The main rationale behind this policy is an assumption on that strict punitive measures (a) prompt drug users to quit using drugs and (b) prevent children and young adults from experimenting with illegal drugs. Nevertheless, the opponents of such a policy consistently argue that hunting thousands of young adults to test them for drugs has a very limited or negligible influence or none at all on the level of drug use.