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Direct linkYamaguchi, Ryoko; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Johnston, Lloyd D. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2004
The purposes of this article are (a) to describe drug search policies in nationally representative samples of schools from 1998 to 2001 and (b) to examine the association between drug searches by schools and reported drug use by students. Most schools (86%) reported searching students for cause or suspicion, while 40% of schools reported randomly…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Substance Abuse, Secondary School Students, Age Differences
