SPUQC’S ANNUAL DRUG-TESTING 2016

Random Drug Testing happens at St. Paul University Quezon City on the 5th of October 2016 located at MMJ building.

St. Paul University Quezon City held their random Annual Drug testing on October 5, 2016 at MMJ Building under the Student Welfare Committee for the general discipline and conduct of the students on and off campus. The SWC is responsible for implementing and regulating the annual drug testing every school year. According to Ms. Lina David, Chair of the SWC, as per memorandum from the Commission on Higher Education and to implement RA 9165 known as the “Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Acts of 2002” and as stipulated in the student handbook that all Paulinians enrolled are subject to random drug testing without their necessary knowledge (to be found on page 76 of the handbook). The objectives of this RDT are: (1) To provide intervention program to drug users. (2) Assess the effectiveness of school based and community-based prevention program. (3) Deter the use of illegal drugs. (4) Facilitate the rehabilitation of drug users and dependents. And, (5) Strengthen the collaboration efforts of identifies units in the university and agencies against the use of illegal drugs and rehabilitation of drug users and dependents.

For the SPUQC community, it is a very good opportunity to protect each students from unscrupulous students who might be into drug addiction and selling, likewise, from further abuse and crime. The university said to be coordinated with an accredited medical team and with the university clinic per se to organize massive information pertinent to the RDT.

If someone is being tested and gets positive on drugs, the head of the drug testing regulatory, Dr. Bernard Regalado does the counseling to the students together with the SWC Chair - will call the attention of the students together with their parents in the office. There are procedures to cure the student who got positive, not just physically but also mentally and emotionally. In this year’s RDT, no one got positive on drugs but there are students who got ‘False-Positive’ meaning to say that the particular student is taking a medication that resulted to making the results positive. But then, the university shall take all the necessary precaution to protect each Paulinian during the conduct and implementation of the RDT in terms of maintaining confidentially and providing intervention programs pertinent to the severity of the results. Additionally, the committee will ascertain that they will not take it against the students if it is found that they have been using prohibited drugs.