Money Money Money

Now I bet yall are all saying ok we know a way to solve this issue so why don’t we just go ahead a start random drug testing, well the issue is money. Many states including Florida have had to get rid of the random drug testing $100,000 program because it simply costs too much. Other states including Texas, California, and Illinois and still holding on strong are still testing their high school athletes. I know that economy these days doesn’t have much slack on money today and most school board members and teachers want our society's money to go into the classrooms and not into random drug testing but this program is worth it if we want to be successful in abolishing this problem. People are saying that very few athletes get caught but the reason that very few are being caught is because athletes are stopping use when they know they are going to be tested because they are afraid of the consequences and the actions that will be taken against them if they happened to get caught using steroids. Drug testing randomly will simply stop athletes from hiding their use and will catch more athletes who are using the drug. Basically like Mike Celizic says, "The Olympics tests for steroids and every other performance-enhancing drug. Pro sports leagues test. Colleges test. High schools, with just a few exceptions, don’t test. And if you don’t test for steroids, you are telling kids to go ahead and use them, because they won’t get caught." But with random drug testing them most defiantly will and learn from this lesson by either higher authority of by the side effects steroids bring.