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Combating The Unfair Competitive Edge: Random Drug Testing Should Be Implemented In Standardized Testing To Deter Illicit And Unfair Use Of Prescription Stimulants, Shawn Romer

Journal of Law and Health

This note will first give an overview of prescription stimulants and will then explore the prevalent number of students who illicitly take prescription stimulants to enhance their academic performance. A description of how illicit use can be harmful to a student follows, and thereafter the note describes the scant current safeguards that currently exist against the use of illicit prescription stimulants. An explanation of the importance of standardized test scores to admissions follows, along with a description of how this importance has motivated students to seek an unfair competitive edge through illicit drug usage, which happens in many sporting competitions. …