Should high school kids be drug tested?   

 

It really doesn’t matter what level of sports you play in because it’s happening as soon as freshman in high school. Kids all over the world are taking supplements in order to enhance their performance as an athlete. It’s sad to see that kids as young as 16 are taking things that could harm there body’s permanently. But how would anyone even know if high school kids don’t get tested. In college there is something called NCAA random drug testing. It means that if the NCAA has any suspicion of any player in the NCAA taking anything that is not under the regulations they have a right to ask you to take a pee test. If you fail the drug test you will be suspended for the rest of that season and your year of eligibility will be lost. It’s the same for the NFL or any other professional organization. Now days you can’t even take certain pre workouts or protein. So its important to know what you are taking. High school is the only time when you can take things and not get tested for it. Is it ok for high school kids to be taking supplements or not?

For as many years as I have played sports I have never known people that were really good that didn’t take some sort of performing enhancement. I feel like that’s the only way to stay ahead of the game now days because if you’re not taking anything you are going to fall behind in strength and speed. So kids feel the need to start taking things in high school even more so because they don’t have to worry about any kid of drug test. Because of this it is leading to more injury’s than ever before. More kids in high school are pulling muscles and tearing ACL joints. If you don’t think that supplements have anything to do with injury please do your research.  So how can we prevent this from happening? I think that if the high school organization were to do Radom drug testing’s through the year not as many kids would be taking them. Witch would then lead to less injury’s.  kids now days feel like because everyone in the NFL take them they have to. It just puts a really bad look and it’s a bad example for the kids of this generation. I also feel like it would stop kids from doing drugs. I know that when I went to high school kids on my team were doing drugs a lot. Then when I made the transition from high school to the college level I hardly saw it at all and it was because of drug testing. It would be a really good idea and set a standard to work hard if high school kids were drug tested. If they make it to the next level they will be ready and smart enough to not take anything that will harm there body’s.