28 Island residents died of opioid overdoses in 2009. Opioids include the painkillers oxycodone and hydrocodone.

That number means that in the six to eight weeks it takes for an autopsy to confirm that one person has perished of a drug overdose, at least three more will die.we all know that their is a very high percentage of school students dying because they overdosed on some type of drug. to try to protect a girl or boys life just by doing a drug test is nothing bad. all measures used today to tackle drugs at the source (i.e. by imprisoning dealers and breaking the supply chain) are not succeeding. It is especially important to protect teenagers, at a young or acceptable age and at the time when their attitude to education greatly affects their entire lives. some sacrifice of human rights is needed to protect the overdosing drug problem. kids who don't take or even put a crazy thing in their head to take drugs because it will help their problems have nothing to fear. the purpose of random drug testing is not to catch the one who are overdosing it is to prevent kids from even starting to take them.