Drugs don't affect job seeking, so let's offer users help rather than take away their payments
- Written by Nicole Lee, Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
Drug testing risks further marginalising welfare recipients. Iakov Filimonov/ShutterstockThe Morrison government is having another shot at getting its proposal to drug test people on welfare through the Senate.
Welfare, health and drug treatment experts have consistently opposed the proposal since it was first introduced three years ago. They say...