Drug testing welfare recipients: Discuss

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but if you fail the drug test instead of just getting denied access to welfare you would have the option to participate in a treatment program

Who is paying for the treatment programs?

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/23/3...tment.html

The new state budget sliced funding to three state-run alcohol and drug abuse treatment centers by about $4.9 million each year for the next two years – a 12 percent reduction per year to each facility’s budget.

The three – Walter B. Jones Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment Center in Greenville, Julian F. Keith Center in Black Mountain and R.J. Blackley Center in Butner – are the only centers in the state that offer long-term treatment to adult addicts without the financial means to help themselves. Last year, they served about 4,300 people – an 11 percent decrease from 2009, according to a Department of Health and Human Services report.

“There’s no question it’s a substantial hit … These three treatment centers are cut to the bone as it is,” said Mark Ezzell, the executive director of Addiction Professionals of North Carolina.