Drug Testing

Kansas has joined the growing number of states considering drug testing for welfare recipients.

With the 2012 election season heating up, recovery community organizations and allies are mobilizing their members and local residents to exercise our civic rights and responsibilities.

Legislators in the Virginia House have recommended that a proposal to perform drug screening on certain recipients of public assistance in the state be delayed until next year.

Officials in Pennsylvania are introducing a new drug testing program for certain welfare recipients.

The Defense Department announced this week it is expanding its drug testing program to include hydrocodone and benzodiazepines. The program already tests for codeine and morphine.

A growing number of parents are using at-home drug tests for their teens, even though some experts in adolescent drug use do not recommend them.

The NFL is trying to recruit physician Congressmen to urge the football players union to allow human growth hormone testing. The union has resisted the testing, insisting they need more information.

A judge has ruled Florida Governor Rick Scott cannot subpoena records from the American Civil Liberties Union, or question the group’s officials, in a case that challenges the governor’s order calling for drug testing for state employees.

A judge has extended a ban on a mandatory drug-testing program for students at a technical college in Missouri until at least February.

A federal judge has extended a temporary ban on a Missouri college’s mandatory drug testing program.

A federal judge has temporarily halted a Florida law that requires welfare applicants to pass a drug test before they are able to receive benefits.

Almost 1,600 people applying for welfare benefits in Florida have declined to undergo drug testing, which is required by a new state law.

A growing number of states are requiring drug testing for recipients of welfare, food stamps, unemployment and other benefits.

The decision by a public college in Missouri to require drug testing of all students has stirred a fierce debate, according to The New York Times.

The arrest of 37 people on drug charges at a Boeing aircraft plant last week puts the spotlight on the increasing problem of prescription drug abuse in the workplace, according to experts.

Welfare applicants in Florida are less likely than Americans in general to use drugs. The state compiled the figures as part of a new state law that requires drug tests for welfare applicants.

Barry McCaffrey, the former head of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, called Florida’s new law that requires drug testing for welfare applicants counterproductive.

A Florida state senator has filed legislation that would repeal a new state law requiring welfare applicants to pass a drug test.

A technical college in Missouri is requiring all its students to undergo drug testing. KSPR reports the school is the only public college, and perhaps the only college in the nation, with a drug-testing requirement.

A lawsuit filed this week challenges Florida’s new law that requires welfare recipients to pass a drug test.

A study of workplace drug-screening tests finds methamphetamine use is higher among workers in Western states.

Mandated drug testing for convicted criminals in Pennsylvania generally does not include the newly banned “bath salts,” WNEP-TV reports. A state law banning the synthetic drugs went into effect in this week.

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a new law this week that will suspend school bus driver permits for three years for those who refuse to submit to a drug or alcohol test. The law also suspends permits for drivers who submit to a test that shows the presence of drugs or alcohol in their system.

An Alabama lawmaker says he will introduce a bill that would require drug testing for welfare recipients who have a felony or drug conviction.

Conducting drug tests in high schools appears to have only a small effect in reducing substance use, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found the tests had no influence on male students, and only a slight impact on females—but only in some schools.