more people who use their welfare money to buy drugs instead of diapers for their infant children. Checking people for drugs that receive pubic assistance would not only save money‚ but then those people may have a better chance when they continue into the workforce. Others think that drug testing people who receive assistance is discrimination and a violation of privacy. In the state of Arizona welfare recipients are asked three questions about drug use. If they answer yes to any of the following
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Carrell & Heavrin (2013) mention that the use of drug and alcohol tests for employees and job applicants have become a complicated and critical issue in regards to job security. In general‚ drug test screenings look for opiates‚ cocaine‚ barbiturates‚ methamphetamine‚ and marijuana. It has also been suggested that drug abusers are ten times likely to miss work‚ 3.6 times more likely to be involved in on-the-job related accidents‚ five times likely to file a workers compensation claim and have higher
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Drug Testing For Welfare Our country is experiencing a major drug crisis As of right now‚ 13 states have adopted policies involving drug testing for welfare. Each state has a different policy‚ and handles drug testing in different ways. West Virginia has a three offense policy. The first time a welfare recipient tests positive for drugs‚ he/she will be able to keep the benefits but will be required to attend job encouragement and rehabilitation programs. The second offense consists of the recipient
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Drug testing welfare recipients is an excellent idea. For instance‚ random drug testing would help substance-abusing welfare recipients conquer their drug problems. Drug testing would be very helpful to the ones who are not substance abusing to actually get the help they deserve. It’s also great because most recipients have children which is what the benefits should be for if the recipient has TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy). Now there are plenty of recipients who abuse the programs like
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many abusers of the system would stop taking advantage. Drug testing should be required in order to receive welfare benefits because drug testing would aid in stopping drug use‚ because able-bodied recipients would be pushed to look for jobs‚ and because most working citizens are required to take drug tests in order to work. The first reason why individuals on welfare should be drug tested is to help fight against drug use in America. Drug abuse is overly common in the United States. Many individuals
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Drug testing has becoming more of an issue in the united states over the past several years. Schools all over country have begun to start testing students in clubs ‚ sports ‚ and other activities. This may seem odd that students can be tested based solely on the fact that they participate in extracurricular activities but the supreme court upheld this ruling during a court case in 2002 (CITE). It is unfair and ineffective in truly solving the drug problems in high schools. “A small number of public
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Areas Where Drug Testing Can Improve Safety Drug addiction have become very popular in the 1960’s due to the influence of the mass media and music. It has estimated that about 208 million people around the globe are drug users. Despite the government’s full efforts in trying to fight against drugs‚ clandestine laboratories continue to rise and cause havoc in the lives of the people today‚ especially the youth. A large majority of drug users are from the work force which is why some companies strictly
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introduction of random (‘suspicionless’) drug testing. Testing is already widespread in independent boarding schools‚ with three-quarters of schools reported to be using some drug testing. Although the enthusiasm from teachers and parents for testing‚ a few practical studies have examined the effects of drug testing in schools. One thing that makes this problem difficult to address is the issue of violating the kid’s individual rights. Drug testing is conducted by taking blood‚ urine‚ saliva
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Former Texas longhorns head football coach once said‚ “Most players don’t mind drug testing once they realize they don’t have to study for it.” The reason for quoting that is because there is more to the drug testing of athletes than just having to “study.” Studying is the least of an athlete’s worries. They have to worry about the consequences of failing a random test‚ disappointing their fans‚ team‚ and family. Here is more. Why this topic? Growing up my childhood consisted of sports and more
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Forced Drug Testing Drug testing is a way to test individuals for the use of any drug in their body. There is a downfall of drug testing because it’s not completely accurate‚ considering some drugs stay in your system longer than others. So an individual could have used a drug 1 week prior to when they got tested. But if a person isn’t suppose to use drugs at all‚ then it shouldn’t matter how long the drugs are in their system because they know not to use. There are ups and downs to pretrial
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