Drug Testing of Welfare Applicants Yields Few Positive Results Articles>Addiction ResearchBy The RanchApril 2, 2015Tennessee is one of 12 states that require drug testing of welfare applicants, but initial figures reveal that after six months of the new rules, only a tiny fraction of welfare applicants have tested positive for drugs. Of course, whether or not people struggling with addiction should be discounted from welfare is a political issue,…
Drug Tests for Welfare Recipients Articles>Addiction ResearchBy The RanchAugust 12, 2011While more states passing drug-testing laws might appeal to the baser emotional impulses of the masses, this does not address the fact that underlying psychiatric issues in underserved populations often lead to self-medication and it continues to frame addiction as a moral failing rather than a disease. Have we decided to let children fend for…
