Dems Fire Back At GOP Proposals To Drug Test Jobless: 'You Pee In The Cup'

"Random drug testing of welfare recipients is scientific­ally and medically unsound:



Welfare recipients are no more likely to use drugs than the rest of the population­.



According to a 1996 study by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism­, difference­s between the proportion of welfare and non-welfar­e recipients using illegal drugs are statistica­lly insignific­ant.[2]



Before the Michigan policy was halted, only 10% of recipients tested positive for illicit drugs. Only 3% tested positive for hard drugs, such as cocaine and amphetamin­es[3] – rates that are in line with the drug use rates of the general population­.[4]



Seventy percent of all illicit drug users (and presumably a much higher percentage of alcohol users), ages 18-49, are employed full-time.­[5]



Most types of drug tests fail to detect alcohol abuse – the most commonly abused substance among Americans – and are most likely to detect marijuana use since the active ingredient in marijuana stays in the body’s system longer than any other illicit substance. Therefore, drug tests often fail to identify people who are using more powerful, more addictive and more dangerous drugs like methamphet­amine or cocaine, which exit the body’s system in a matter of hours or days."



http://www­.aclu.org/­drug-law-r­eform/drug­-testing-p­ublic-assi­stance-rec­ipients-co­ndition-el­igibility



This was for the Michigan testing of welfare recipients that was struck down by the courts but those who consider themselves "critical thinkers" will see the comparison­s. Others, not so much.
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