Reply #17: Since drug abuse occurs in similar percentages

[My Good Babushka]

in every income bracket, it seems like it will be a lot of wasteful bureaucracy. You have to pay for the tests, the administering and processing of tests, and then what? Drug abuse treatment, fiscal, housing and food assistance? Or do you just plan on turning them out in the streets until they get desperate enough to commit a crime, then pay for a long, expensive prison sentence? Welfare is already the cheapest way of dealing with drug abusers in poverty and protecting the populations where they live.
There is no reason to further test, humiliate, and degrade persons in poverty unless you are getting some sort of tyrannical, punitive satisfaction from it, as far as I can guess.
The only thing standing between dependency and self-sufficiency for most people living in poverty is LOW WAGES, not drugs.