What one state found after drug testing school wastewater

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New Mexico is one of the first U.S. states to drug test its public schools' wastewater for a range of opioids and stimulants. Wall Street Journal reporter Sara Randazzo joins CBS News to examine some of the data released earlier in December.
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@curtisdaniel9294 6 ай бұрын

As a former teacher, don't forget the staff is using those sinks, toilets etc 😮

@BFRIZZLE909 6 ай бұрын

True, but the kids sadly are the target on this one. Keep tooting teach. 😂

@birdflipper 6 ай бұрын

There are trace amounts of pharmaceuticals and other hazardous chemicals in the drinking water across the country bc water treatment plants are not equipped to completely remove them from waste water. Therefore, the test results in these schools may not be an accurate representation of the amount of illicit drug use that's occurring there.

@Elininja2023-edits 6 ай бұрын

I would hope that they are also checking the drinking water coming through the tap to compare those waste water results and make informed conclusions.

@BrooklynBaby-1 6 ай бұрын

It’s WASTEWATER not drinking water they tested 😂💦

@ShawnHartmann-ul2qk 6 ай бұрын

@@BrooklynBaby-1”Drinking water” is what you flush with and wash your hands with. It’s also what you drink sometimes, the chemicals there in entering your body, some passing into the waste water just as they would if those chemicals had entered your body through some other means.

@ShawnHartmann-ul2qk 6 ай бұрын

During the Reagan administration, the Coca-Cola Bottling Company (amongst others to a lesser extent) lobbied to relax the standards for tap water purification. It was billed as “fiscal responsibility” made the water out of the garden hose taste weird and have things in it like benzene, and resulted in untold billions in revenue for the bottling corporations as they became the only way to obtain moderately safe drinking water. Just another win for the common person, right?

@franklin9400 6 ай бұрын

@@ShawnHartmann-ul2qkWhat is your point? 😂

@renatanash-live.laugh.love118 6 ай бұрын

How about test the water they’re using to prepare food

@resterAnonyme 6 ай бұрын

Under the EPA water standards they are required too unless it comes from a ground water pump.

@DianeSturlinXX 6 ай бұрын

I wonder how much of that wastewater belongs to the staff and how much of it belongs to the students. I've been on this planet through eight decades, I chose to homeschool my children over 30 years ago simply because I grew up with and know way too many teachers personally! There was no way in hell I was going to let any of those people around my children unsupervised.

@butchworm7793 6 ай бұрын

Its the same wastewater.

@OB.x 6 ай бұрын

You would really be surprised how many of it is the kids.... The numbers don't surprise me at all. If anything the teachers are drinking.

@kimmayer9007 6 ай бұрын

My school is roughly 80 staff to 800 kids so blaming the 10% is illogical.

@butchworm7793 6 ай бұрын

no its not. Teachers have way more access than 99% of those 800 kids.@@kimmayer9007

@jamesalanstephensmith7930 6 ай бұрын

ANYWHERE I taught I was drug tested, including Taiwan.

@brylythhighlights4335 6 ай бұрын

It'd be surprising not to find methamphetamine in waste water, ADHD drugs are commonplace.

@Puzekat2 6 ай бұрын

Is the staffs toilets also dumping into that waste water?

@jurachi1180 6 ай бұрын

Anti depressants are more addictive and have worse withdrawals than a lot of street drugs, what about how we make ten year olds addicted to drugs

@notsure2 6 ай бұрын

I know a medical THC card holder from Albuquerque that used medical cannabis to successfully treat narcotic addictions. It’s too bad they can’t use medical cannabis to treat teens with hard drug addictions.

@LR-mh8hs 6 ай бұрын

Since they implemented detectors at our local high school this year, they've found kids vaping weed in the bathrooms daily. One case was a staff member (an instructional assistant from the county ed office). Each time, the cops and the parents are called and each time the parents say the same thing: "It must be a mistake. Not my kid!". SAD.

@Sky-yh3ml 6 ай бұрын

Tin foil would bypass metan detection…

@Pa-we1lw 6 ай бұрын

Kids have been doing this for decades. Be real.

@randymarsh8974 6 ай бұрын

Yes, finding fentanyl over heroin is encouraged. God this drug war is so stupid.

@MrStaybrown 6 ай бұрын

Teachers and parents use the restrooms at schools too. Dont just automatically blame the students.

@monkeytimesmagazine3725 6 ай бұрын

Makes me wonder why the school boards haven't thought of this before, except why the whole ceptic tank instead of the individual toilets to narrow it down?

@erikfinkel2717 6 ай бұрын

Because they know if they begin investigating it, it will eventually lead to their teachers. And they don't want to fire their teachers. They just want to make an example of the students of wondering why they allowed this to create an atmosphere of drug use in the first place. Usually broken homes and high stress of expectations of going to college

@monkeytimesmagazine3725 6 ай бұрын

@@erikfinkel2717 keep coping, when I graduated right before the pandemic, there were seniors who were doing lines around substitutes, and some kids were selling pills, I wouldn't be surprised if both teachers and students were but the point is to deter it, we're not wasting public funds just to punish kids for no reason

@lostnlove2309 6 ай бұрын

Each toilet that gets flushed goes to the same place. You cannot test them individually.

@franklin9400 6 ай бұрын

@@monkeytimesmagazine3725Because you couldn't even imagine the cost, to set it up individually. Then to maintain it. Also then you come into privacy concerns and students medical records you can't access. Some of the drugs are legal use prescriptions.

@traviswatson4986 6 ай бұрын

ya that would be such a simple, non privacy invading task 😅

@tezmundoalvarezthe1st335 6 ай бұрын

Did they drug test the teachers ?

@elmerkilred159 6 ай бұрын

Cocaine? Kids must be rich nowadays!

@johnbaran577 6 ай бұрын

It’s probably from the teachers

@That1slywolf 6 ай бұрын

School isnt worth going to sober its not really worth going at all the way it is

@raztastic 6 ай бұрын

How do they know it's not the teachers? First group I thought of when they said cocaine lol

@clayton97330 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, too.expensive for students

@nundulan 6 ай бұрын

You're naive if you think teens/preteens don't use coke

@twigwigsoso 6 ай бұрын

bro the entire rich half of my school was on coke, i was a theater tech kid and those popular actor kids went skiing everyday. honestly with teacher pay students are more likely to have more access to disposable income

@prrfrrpurochicas 6 ай бұрын

Big facts and lets not act like the biggest operation was done by the adults in school who got the kids to distribute because they think it is cool or something.

@d7seven 6 ай бұрын

You can thank the FDA and the Stickler family

@user-dv7hq2rh4g 6 ай бұрын

Don't project your own incompetence onto others.

@MsSarcasticity 6 ай бұрын

Staff gotta be on something to handle those little craps.

@IndridCool54 6 ай бұрын

Don’t automatically assume that it’s the kids. 😐

@lostnlove2309 6 ай бұрын

And don’t assume it’s not

@IndridCool54 6 ай бұрын

@@lostnlove2309 Yes, Americans consume more drugs than any other country and not just illicit drugs. “Ask your doctor about…”. We’re a sick culture.

@nundulan 6 ай бұрын

It absolutely is the kids lmao

@1-gz7xy 6 ай бұрын

As a kid I'd probably be guilty of polluting the water

@lindaward3156 6 ай бұрын

Of course the school officials put it all on the students. My is on the adults as the major contributors

@lindaward3156 6 ай бұрын

Dang autocorrect - my *money* is on....

@prrfrrpurochicas 6 ай бұрын

Big facts and they love to extort the kids since both the teachers union and police unions are closely tied with rates showing alot be married to cops. So their definitely is a conflict of interest or something they hide and go out of their way to falsify data 🤔.

@ItzAwsomeWasTaken 6 ай бұрын

Theirs more students than teachers so uh, it would most likely be the students contributing to that high amount of drugs in the wastewater. ( theirs like 100 teachers compared to a 1000 students )

@lindaward3156 6 ай бұрын

@@ItzAwsomeWasTaken I hear what you're saying but the teachers & administration are the ones with the funds & the contacts. I'm retired now but worked peripherally with schools, being in/around several different ones every day of the school week for about 40 years.

@denillefleming2942 6 ай бұрын

Pretty smart for sure!

@saraxdouglas8577 6 ай бұрын

Why you think it's the students......!?

@MrWhitmen1981 6 ай бұрын

Corn corn corn drugs corn corn

@krystynasmyth1891 6 ай бұрын

Some teens will use cocaine cuz it stays in your system for short time to avoid drug tests in sports etc. Idk why your shocked about cocaine 😂

@Augfordpdoggie 6 ай бұрын

Great culture and great parenting

@desmond-hawkins 6 ай бұрын

Yes it has to be from the kids and therefore the parents' fault, right? It's not like the teachers can afford cocaine.

@suen5006 6 ай бұрын

It's everywhere, not just NM, don't kid yourself.

@up-uw4op 6 ай бұрын

welcome to america

@prrfrrpurochicas 6 ай бұрын

Based, call these parent and bottom b circuit that is teachers unions who protect their own like the cops do when they get caught doing bad things. They mess with the data or how your kid interpret data.

@prrfrrpurochicas 6 ай бұрын

@@suen5006big facts, most are doing such.

@jan_darysh 6 ай бұрын

Why doesn't the government just lift the ban on growing weeds? Marijuana is just a grass.

@john-smith. 6 ай бұрын

In think you should "Just say No" after reading your word salad.

@missano3856 6 ай бұрын

Weed is legal in New Mexico

@lameetcalice3845 6 ай бұрын

⁠⁠@@john-smith. Not at all a Word Salad, but you definitely committed Ad Hominem.

@user-dv7hq2rh4g 6 ай бұрын

The opium poppy is just a plant, and coca is as well. I'm all for lifting prohibition, but don't put yourself over people who use other drugs.

@user-dv7hq2rh4g 6 ай бұрын

@@john-smith. Word salat? I think your reading comprehension is the issue here.

@stargazer5073 6 ай бұрын

Remember, many high schoolers get their wisdom teeth removed and take meds for pain control.

@user-dv7hq2rh4g 6 ай бұрын

Drugs saved my life.

@colourfulsouls 6 ай бұрын

So they know oxycodone is a prescribed medication? Do they realize they def have students who are prescribed it? Don’t assume they’re all taking it recreationally

@fergieferg9192 6 ай бұрын

They addressed that in the video

@fotsofranklin87 6 ай бұрын

😮

@Mr123MTNDEW 6 ай бұрын

Next step is a camera to get the data of who, and the worst part is we will love the violation because we are told it is for security

@afterthestorm221 6 ай бұрын

Why is the school surprised? Next up.... Kids too afraid to use the public bathrooms in their high school.

@ryanjohnson3615 6 ай бұрын

That's ok. Use the litter box.

@Iukereigns3460 6 ай бұрын

What were the demographics of the school?

@desmond-hawkins 6 ай бұрын

Found the racist.

@ymm420 6 ай бұрын

O my god did they find Marijuana? O noooooo! What has the world come to?

@TheRoseAnthology 6 ай бұрын

As someone who has followed toxicity in the world around me, I can confidently suggest two specific concerns for people to understand the magnitude of US water quality: first get current chromium-6 stats for the nation (or even just your county and surrounding counties) and then compare those numbers to the numbers used in the Erin Brocovich debacle and second: gather current lead stats for the nation (or just your personal and surrounding counties) and compare those numbers to the crisis of Flint Michigan. Then consider the fact that counties can test over the legal limit of heavy metals BUT IF a neighboring county is under the legal limit of that contaminant, the defaulting county can buy the neighboring county’s difference and then they can claim their levels are within the legal limit. A friend who worked for the government told me about the buying of under limits and called it something but I can’t remember what it’s called, it either sounded like cat something or the word cat was in the term used to define this very common and deceptive practice that affects what people see on paper while absolutely nothing is done to the contaminated water.

@1-gz7xy 6 ай бұрын

Thank you sir

@Mindraker1 6 ай бұрын

This doesn't mean anything. Just because someone flushes something down the toilet, doesn't mean that person is actively using it.

@moonprincessRN 6 ай бұрын

It isn't that they're flushing drugs directly down the toilet. It is what can be detected in human waste after drug use.

@user-dv7hq2rh4g 6 ай бұрын

These tests are mainly metabolite tests. So yes, they were actually used. That said, drug use is natural in humans. So yea, can't really stop it.

@wheelitzr2 6 ай бұрын

They act as if they have never been to high school.

@doknox 6 ай бұрын

Maybe you should test the teachers first!

@Kidsollekz 6 ай бұрын

Teachers 😂😂😂

@askew9976 6 ай бұрын

Why can’t it be from the the staff? Or eating poppy seed bagels.

@owenomansavelove 6 ай бұрын

Did they test the supply lines?

@Crismodin 6 ай бұрын

If you're a drug user, there's pretty much no point in paying the same price or more for heroin when you can find fentanyl anywhere for the same price or less than heroin and its 50x stronger.

@Matt_with_2Ts 6 ай бұрын

Just drink the water.

@kenofken9458 6 ай бұрын

I don't think real heroin even exists in the black market anymore.

@Crismodin 6 ай бұрын

@@kenofken9458 I do have a friend who teaches at a high school in Texas, they've handed out 26 felonies for drugs and 100+ misdemeanors for vaping this year and we're not even halfway. They had to stop allowing kids to eat in class because they kept having kids faint from eating fentanyl laced gummies. And this is at a "good" school in a "good" area in a major city.