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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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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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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Candace Henson Mr. Gordon English 1101 March 30‚ 2012 Mandatory Drug Tests Millions of businesses require people to take drug tests before they are hired. I believe that this should keep happening. Jobs that don’t require drug tests have the risk of insurance problems‚ the health of their employees‚ how it affects their work‚ and how they treat customers and other employees. Drugs alter the way your brain processes information and makes you think differently than you normally would. They
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So‚ your new employer requires you to have a hair drug test done - now what? The answer is that you should go ahead and take the test pronto! But before you do so‚ are you sure you’re going to pass the test? You’ve probably heard the rumor about how effective this particular test is‚ so it’s only natural to be anxious if your past record with drugs isn’t something to smile about. Well‚ good news is that this meticulous method of hair follicle testing can be bypassed if certain tactics are applied.
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workplace drug testing goes about as an obstacle to individuals who may some way or another try different things with‚ or consistently utilize liquor or drugs. Workplace drug testing can possibly enormously improve wellbeing and security in the workplace‚ by disheartening individuals from manhandling substances and in this way enduring any evil wellbeing impacts‚ and diminishing the probability of mishaps and wounds identified with working. Evaluation There is no denying that workplace drug testing
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Drug Testing in the Workplace As drug use throughout the world continues to rise‚ there are many employers becoming concerned for their businesses. Collecting hair‚ blood‚ or urine is usually the beginning process of a drug test. It is then tested in a lab with chemicals to extract drugs from the samples taken. It is done before one is hired in order to detect the use and or abuse of illegal substances such as marijuana and cocaine. While many people feel that drug testing is a violation of one’s
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paper is to summarize and evaluate the debate on whether the petty drug offenders should be crowding our prisons‚ and also if some drugs should be legalized or at least decriminalized to reduce our prison populations. This issue is linked to Parenti’s discussion on drugs and the “War of Drugs”. Many of prisons in the United States are over crowded because of the petty offenders and the first time offenders that have minimum mandatory sentences‚ which are outrageous sentences for these offenders. Parenti
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or not schools should be able to drug test their students. One side says there should be drug testing and one side says there should not be any. The use of drug testing is to reduce the use of drugs by students. Everyone wants students to not be using drugs but one side drug testing will be an effective way to reduce it but the other side says there is other ways in which to do this. “Schools that have adopted random student drug testing seek to decrease drug use among students via two routes
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Drug Testing and Workplace Accidents Paul Rountree‚ M.D. Over the past twenty years the use of workplace drug tests have become commonplace. Both Hanson1 and Zwerling2 have presented excellent overviews of the history of drug and alcohol testing for industry in this country. At present approximately 35 million drug tests are performed each year at a direct cost exceeding one billion dollars. 3 This money is distributed among numerous parties within an enormous drug testing industry‚ and recipients
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