Kansas Passes Law To Drug–Test Welfare and Unemployment Recipients
Brownback called drug addiction a “scourge on Kansas,” but the drug-testing regime is imprecise at best in addressing addiction. Drug tests are much more successful at detecting marijuana, which stays in the body longer, than they are at detecting more …
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Meth Addiction Cure: UCLA Tests Ibudilast On Human Addicts – Huffington Post
LOS ANGELES — The Food and Drug Administration has fast-tracked human tests of what may be the first cure for methamphetamine addiction. The drug also may be the first non-opiate drug treatment for heroin and opiate addiction. In a recent trial, UCLA …
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Brownback signs bill that requires welfare, unemployment recipients to be …
TOPEKA — Calling drug addiction a “scourge in Kansas,” Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law Tuesday a bill to test welfare and unemployment recipients suspected of using illegal drugs. “This is a horrific thing that hits so many people,” he said. “What …
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New group to help alcoholics and drug addicts recover
A NEW group made up of recovering drug addicts and alcoholics has been formed to help NHS bosses shape their treatment. It has been created by patients using the Edward Myers substance abuse unit at the Harplands Hospital in Hartshill. The group will …
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Is food truly addictive?
The 'major' addictions, like alcoholism and drug abuse, stimulate significant amounts of research and are now largely well characterised, but others, like pathological gambling and internet addiction, are much less understood. And then there is food …
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North Carolina Senate OKs drug testing requirement for welfare
An applicant or recipient determined to be addicted to alcohol or drugs must complete a substance abuse treatment program and submit to drug testing, however, to continue qualifying for benefits. Bill supporters said the state should go a step further …
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Question by FAITH: How come people on government assistance are not subject to a drug test before and while receiving benefits?
Our tax dollars are paying for a lot of people’s drug addictions. I know here in California, most people on welfare are also on some type of drug abuse. They will take the General Relief money and Food Stamps and feed their drug habit instead of the kids. I believe they should all be subject to drug testing to receive benefits from our tax money and continue with unannounced drug testing to continue to receive payments. We the tax payers have a right to where the money is going.

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Answer by TheOrange Evil
I think it’d be a lot cheaper and easier to 1) get rid of welfare, especially long-term welfare, and 2) make drugs legal.

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