Studies show that people on welfare who use drugs is quite low.
The Myth of Welfare and Drug Use - The Daily Beast
As you can see, another issue exposes just how full of shit republicans actually are.
The Myth of Welfare and Drug Use - The Daily Beast
The most colossal failure of this policy was in Arizona, which passed a drug-testing law in 2009. In 2012, an evaluation of the program had startling results: After three years and 87,000 screenings, only one person had failed the drug test, with huge costs for the state, which saved a few hundred dollars by denying benefits, compared to the hundreds of thousands spent to conduct the tests.
The myth of welfare recipients spending their benefits on drugs is just thata myth. And indeed, in Utah, only 12 people out of 466or 2.5 percentshowed evidence of drug use after a mandatory screening. The total cost to the state was $25,000, or far more than the cost of providing benefits to a dozen people. The only thing gained from mandatory drug testing is the humiliation of desperate people.
Which, judging from the GOPs continued enthusiasm for the idea, is enough. In Ohio, for instance, state senator Tim Schaffer has introduced legislation that would establish a drug-testing program for the states welfare program. It is time that we recognize that many families are trying to survive in drug-induced poverty, and we have an obligation to make sure taxpayer money is not being used to support drug dealers, Schaffer said. We can no longer turn a blind eye to this problem.
If Ohio is anything like Florida, which also has a drug-testing program, Schaffer will find that the large majority of welfare recipients are neither drug users nor drug dealers. From 2011 to 2012, just 108 of the 4,086 people who took a drug test faileda rate of 2.6 percent, compared to a national drug use rate of over 8 percent. The total cost to Florida taxpayers? $45,780.
As you can see, another issue exposes just how full of shit republicans actually are.