1. Drug Testing College Athletes: For or against it
By Michael Byers

2. Background Information
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) instituted drug testing programs in 1986.
Began testing for only anabolic steroids, years later started testing for street drugs.
If athletes test positive for any banned substances they are ruled ineligible for a year.
Background Information

3. Thesis
The NCAA’s drug testing policies should be amended for the student athletes’ sake

4. Drug Testing Policy Contradictions
Amateurs vs. Professionals

5. Invasion of Privacy
4th Amendment, exists to protect from unreasonable search and seizures.
NCAA could potentially ruin an athlete’s career or life

6. NCAA’s inefficiency with Their Drug Policies
List contains categories being stimulants, anabolic agents, and street drugs
NCAA puts all responsibilities on the student athletes
NCAA doesn’t express their policies to athletes well enough

7. Does your school have have a drug-testing program?
Athletes surveyed attended institutions that enforced drug testing policies.
Yes
No, or I don’t know
36.6%
63%
Survey done by the Office of Medical Research and Development at Michigan State University*

8. NCAA should have no right to test for any street drugs
They’re considered amateurs be the NCAA
So, the NCAA should only test the student athletes for non PED’s (Performance Enhancing Drugs)
Conclusion/Solution

9. Citations
Crowley, Donald M. "Student Athletes and Drug Testing." Marquette Sports Law Review 6.1 (1995): Web. 26 Mar
Rose, Allison. "Mandatory Drug Testing of College Athletes: Are Athletes Being Denied Their Constitutional Rights." Pepperdime Law Review (1989): Web. 26 Mar
Albrecht, Richard R., William A. Anderson, Christoper A. McGrew, Douglas B. McKeag, and David O. Hough. "NCAA Institutionally Based Drug Testing: Do Our Athletes Know the Rules of This Game?" Official Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine 24.2 (1992): Web. 26 Mar