DRUGS AND WELFARE

I wondered how many people noticed the paragraph buried in an AP story on
San Francisco drug hospitalizations. It cited nurses as saying that
overdoses peak right after public assistance checks arrive.

This disclosure bolsters my conviction that social welfare programs without
accountability tend to corrupt and destroy the very people they were meant
to help. No wonder we're losing the war on drugs-we're subsidizing
abusers.

Abusers should be offered a one-time-only drug treatment,followed by a
self-help program on the order of Alcoholics Anonymous.Repeat offenders
should be kicked off all public assistance.

I realize this doesn't address the problem of what to do with their
children, but do we really do them a favor by leaving them in
drug-using,welfare-abusing homes?

Requiring random drug tests of welfare recipients wouldn't violate their
freedom because there is no constitutional right to live off other people's
money.

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