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Dumbest move you’ll see this week

March 8, 2014 By Mark Kleiman @markarkleiman

The hugely expensive household survey detects only about 6% of heroin users. For about a fifth as much money, the ADAM program (interviewing and drug-testing a sample of arrestees) detects the other 94%. Guess which program the federal government just cancelled (again)? Beau Kilmer and Jon Caulkins explain why this is folly bordering on madness.

Filed Under: Drug Policy Tagged With: ADAM, drug abuse monitoring, Drug testing

If you want to find substance abuse, there are better people to test than SNAP recipients

August 21, 2013 By Harold Pollack

House Republicans want to give states the authority to drug-test food stamp applicants. Yet as Sheldon Danziger and I discuss in Wonkblog today, young adults show much higher rates of drug and alcohol disorders than do SNAP recipients.

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This suggests that sites such as the one below provide a more target-rich environment for drug-testing than does the SNAP counter at your local social service agency. (I suspect Jonathans Chait and Cohn would agree with me on this one.)

 

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Drug testing, Medicare, SNAP, welfare

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