More details around the student testing Vintage raised last week.
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MONTERREY, Nuevo Leo'n. - Almost thousand students of secondary level in Nuevo Leo'n were positive in the test that applied the secretariat to them of Public Education of the state, to know if sometimes they have consumed some drug. Of 20 thousand 975 students submissive the Posit test, that it is a questionnaire to know his direction towards prohibited substances, 958 (4,57%) sometimes have consumed some legal drug, like alcohol and tobacco, or illegal like marijuana, inhalants, cocaine and others. Already in the examination antidoping carried out 2 thousand 709 students, nine of them gave positive, in agreement with the final result of the program of early detection of addictions in state schools, that it presented today the secretary Education in the organization, Kings Tamez War. The information on the students with addiction problems, stays confidential. Nuevo Leo'n is the first state in Mexico that makes east type of tests in the state schools. In this first pilot program 53 located secondary schools in the metropolitan area of Monterrey were selected, with a population of 31 thousand 166 students. Of this total, the family parents gave the authorization to 22 thousand 657 boys so that they were put under the examinations. The control was accepted voluntarily by the young people, who had the option to reject it, if they did not agree. In Nuevo Leo'n there are 220 thousand students of secondary, of who 197 thousands go to public institutions, and 23 thousands, to private schools. Tamez War mentioned that the intention of the program is, first, to stop the index of young people with addiction problems and, then, to revert the statistic. The diffusion of these examinations between the student population, will contribute to inhibit the intention of those who has the intention to prove drugs, indicated the civil servant. “We are going to test this of random way in the next scholastic cycle in any secondary one and at any time, that is going to help to reduce potential consumptions to us. When people know that she can be called on to him to test at any time, that is going to help”, affirmed. The Posit (Monitoring instrument for the Direction of Problems between Adolescents) was applied between October of the 2007 and January of the 2008. It evaluated seven areas in the life of the students: use and abuse of substances; mental health; familiar relations; relations with friendly; academic advantage; labor interest; and aggressive or criminal conduct. The main area of risk between the adolescents who already have proven some drug, is the pressure of the friendly, followed by familiar conflicts and deficiency in academic advantage. This test was applied by personnel of the Centers of Youthful Integration, of the state government. The other examination, biochemist or antidoping, became between April and May of the 2008, by means of a test of saliva that the presence in the marijuana organism detects, cocaine, opiate and metanfetaminas. Of more than 20 thousand students with authorization of their parents, only 12% were insaculado that tested. From total 9 they were positive, and 35 rejected to be put under the examination. To these 44 young people, the secretariat of Education will give special attention them with a visit to its house to speak with the family parents. Tamez War announced that for scholastic cycle 2008-2009 the program of early detection to all the secondary ones of the state will be extended. They will send the letter to them of acceptance to the parents of all the students and to the examinations of Posit and biochemist of random way will be applied during that scholastic year.
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