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To News: Announced Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair's endorsement of student drug testing (SDT). See following link February 22, 2004, Britain’s NEWS of the WORLD newspaper-- Citing evidence from the United States showing that random drug testing has succeeded in dramatically cutting drug abuse among its secondary school pupils, PM Blair urged Britain's school superintendents to face the reality of the scale of drug use among Britain's schoolchildren. He added that cleaning up schools remains the big priority in their war on drugs and that the ball is now in the superintendents' court. This event is a major breakthrough for parents, health professionals and drug prevention organizations who have been advocating this non-punitive solution to schoolchild illicit drug use and school violence throughout the past two decades. The importance of this news is summarized in the following: Prime Minister Blair has joined President Bush in support of SDT, another initiative to curb worldwide terrorism--drug traffickers destroying schoolchildren, families and communities. · Britain is suddenly facing up to the terrible harm to children and schools resulting from their softening of drug laws such as decriminalizing marijuana. · A major media outlet, for the first time, has featured SDT as a legitimate and effective tool for protecting schoolchildren from drugs and school violence. This accentuates the total absence of favorable news coverage of SDT in most major American media. · This long-desired high-level governmental support for drug-terrorized families has directly resulted from valid SDT advocacy information having been developed and disseminated by non-governmental drug prevention organizations both in America and Europe working together with America's White House Drug Czar's office and international drug prevention agencies. "After years of trying to obtain government support for protecting schoolchildren and teachers from the dangers and disruption of drugs in schools, Prime Minister Blair's and President Bush's support for student drug testing are welcome demonstrations of top government leadership, concern for children and common sense," said Joyce Nalepka, President of Drug-Free Kids, America's Challenge, and former president of Nancy Reagan's National Federation of Parents. "This is an illustration of how men of strong faith are providing fearless leadership in combating the root cause of much death, disease and destruction throughout the world today; the corrupting armed terror of illegal drug trafficking," said DeForest Rathbone, Chairman of the faith-based National Institute of Citizen Anti-drug Policy (NICAP). "We thank God for their leadership." |
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