Welfare Benefits and Drug Screening

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This paper provides information to support a position statement that maintains that the imposition of mandatory drug screening is not only unjust, it is based upon poor reasoning and is a violation of the welfare recipient's basic civil rights. The paper also suggests that it contributes to the perception that the majority of welfare recipients are likely to abuse drugs.

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"Welfare Benefits and the Debate Over the Need for Drug Screening Introduction It is frequently argued that those receiving welfare benefits should have to conform to stated policy, especially when such policy takes the form of legislation; as the welfare recipients receive the taxpayers' largess, this implies that the recipient should follow the rules of the state. The core of this argument surrounds the central issue that the philosophy of welfare is to provide an investment in the individual in order to help promote positive lifestyle conditions, followed by the return of the former welfare recipient to society. Contingent on this philosophy is frequently found a second belief in which the welfare recipient should be routinely screened for drug and substance abuse."

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