This new, one-day program, is ideal for school staff and school resource officers. It is a "team-teaching" program featuring school attorneys Mike Dishman and Dan Murphy teamed with drug specialists Bruce Talbot and Tony Lebron. This new training program gives school staff the recognition tools to document the drug-impaired student or school employee.  Speaking of the drug problem in our nation's school, Justice Scalia has written:

That the nature of the concern is important--indeed, perhaps compelling--can hardly be doubted. Deterring drug use by our Nation's schoolchildren is at least as important as enhancing efficient enforcement of the Nation's laws against the importation of drugs...or deterring drug use by engineers and trainmen... School years are the time when the physical, psychological, and addictiveeffects of drugs are most severe. "Maturing nervous systems are more critically impaired by intoxicants than mature ones are; childhood losses in learning are lifelong and profound"; "children grow chemically dependent more quickly than adults, and their record of recovery is depressingly poor."...and of course the effects of a drug infested school are visited not just upon the users, but upon the entire student body and faculty, as the educational process is disrupted. In the present case, moreover, the necessity for the State to act is magnified by the fact that this evil is being visited not just upon individuals at large, but upon children for whom it has undertaken a special responsibility of care and direction.

  Vernonia School District v. Acton (1995)

In this training, we discuss both establishing reasonable grounds for a suspicion based drug/alcohol test as well as the important components to random drug testing programs.  Drugs students and employees are most likely to abuse, including paraphernalia, concealment techniques, and testing issues are included. Our experienced school lawyers cover the laws, regulations, and court case decisions involving school employee and student drug use, both random and for-cause testing. Video clips of actual drug abusers under the influence provides a real-life learning basis to recognize and document drug impairment. Our expert team provides school staff with the confidence to conduct a fitness-for-duty action for a suspected drug-impaired employee, and how to legally deal with an impaired student. This seminar has earned outstanding reviews from teachers and school administrators and can be custom designed for individual school district needs.

For more information on bringing this program to your school district or area, please contact Sgt. Bruce Talbot via phone at   630.253.8404 or by email at: BruceceRTalbot@DrugRecognition.com