Is Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Constitutional? OVERVIEW Recently Floridas governor Rick Scott put a new drug testing law into action. This law calls for the drug testing of welfare recipients‚ simply because taxpayers do not want to support drug addictions‚ but would rather the money go toward necessities like children and food. What do we as Americans do about this? Are there options to reform the welfare system? Other states have attempted laws similar to this but none have succeeded
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Drug Use in Our Welfare System A common problem in today’s welfare system is the use of drugs. Substance abuse and addiction often interfere with a parent’s ability to get and keep jobs as well as contributes to child abuse and neglect. Addicted mothers show several deficits in their parenting behaviors. They are usually unengaged‚ uncommunicative with their infants‚ often use threatening and authoritarian disciplinary approaches. They also have a higher incidence of child abuse and neglect
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Illegal drug use is admittedly a serious social and medical problem in the United States and in many other parts of the world. The existence of drug users in the modern times necessarily entails the existence of drug suppliers or sellers. The government has legislated ways of dealing with drug abuse and trafficking. In 1988‚ Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act that penalizes abusers of illicit or controlled substances in the bid to control the problem of drug abuse (U.S. DEA‚ n.d.). While it
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Current Treatment & Rehabilitation Methods for Drug and Substance Abuser in Bangladesh August: 2011 Prakash Chandra Roy Dept. of Criminology & Police Science Student No: CP08030‚ Session: 2007-2008 Current Treatment & Rehabilitation Methods for Drug and Substance Abuser in Bangladesh Course Title: Offender Treatment: Theories & Methods Supervised by: Md. Abdul Kader Miah Lecturer‚
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Should welfare recipients be drug tested? Welfare is supposed to meet the basic needs and drugs are far from the basic human needs. If drug using recipients get all the benefits they are more likely to take their check and spend it on their next fix‚ rather than buy groceries. Drug testing welfare recipients would decrease the amount of people abusing the system‚ it would require recipients to stay free of using drugs‚ and would reveal recipients who are wasting the tax payers money. It is clear
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Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Many people are constantly discussing the issue of welfare recipients abusing the system and spending their money on drugs while receiving government assistance. This issue has brought forward a possible solution of states passing legislation that will require welfare applicants to submit to a drug test before receiving any sort of government assistance. Drug testing welfare applicants before allowing them to receive assistance is a positive idea because most employers
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Wasting Billions My name is frank a couple of years ago I was on welfare drug testing. While I was on it I never did any kind of drugs. I was clean for the 2 years I received help. I had a friend that would always do drugs‚ he wouldn’t care about what his consequences would be. One day he got tested and he was in big trouble. People from the government think it is great to do drug tests‚ but what they are really doing is wasting billions on drug tests. Out of those billions only a few tests come out dirty
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Drug Test All Welfare Recipients A Woman working at a convenience store in the US had a man walk in with an EBT card (Food Stamp Credit Card or something similar) and he wanted to buy cigarettes. The woman refused and the man left. The next day the man came in again with a member of his family and raised a commotion about it. The owner came in‚ sold the man cigarettes and fired the woman. Some people might say that it is unconstitutional to demand a mandatory drug test in order to receive welfare
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Mikayla White Mr. Nask Freshman English II 17‚ Feb. 2015 Should welfare recipients be drug tested in order to receive assistance? No‚ I do not think that welfare recipients should have to be drug tested in order to receive assistance. People that are for drug testing welfare recipients feel like it is not fair that they have to be drug tested in order to maintain a job but people receiving “free money” don’t have to be tested. I feel like they need to think beyond the fairness and think about more
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Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients The question at hand is‚ should recipients of welfare undergo drug testing for use of illegal drugs in order to receive their welfare checks? This is one of the issues that the US Congress and the US citizens have been debating for years. Author‚ Arthur Delany explains the concern of both sides of this question in his article‚ “Welfare Drug Testing Bill Introduced In Congress”‚ published in The Huffington Post. Like many social issues‚ there are opposing
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