Drug tests for families on assistance?

Respectfully, this one may be controversial. Working with low economic families over the years I have witnessed first hand how important assistance of any kind can help. With that said, I understand how some families struggle with substance and alcohol abuse or dependence. The argument appears from some members of the general public, may even be you or people you know, that society is enabling low economic families to continue their drug and alochol use. Should families on assistance be subjected to monthly drug and alcohol tests? Let us take this one step further, If I may. Who will pay for each test? What will happen if the guardian, parent, does test positive? Will their funds be revoked, and if that person has a family, how will he or she support their dependents? These questions present financial implications for the county and state where assistance is given. Will society be paying more out of their pocket to fund these important questions? This writer is a helper first, and will not judge, only try to help. However, I'm not a proponent of precious, and scarce funds that are supporting addiction. This does not mean I'm in favor of drug tests and alcohol tests for each assistance applicant, but, I do believe we need to screen each applicant for chemical and alochol abuse. How do we do this in a cost effective manner for the state we live in? Education, addiction education, and support. We already have these programs in place in most of our state budgets, but they are only implemented if the person meets the criteria for drug and alochol addiction. Wonder if we could prevent the addiction spiral at it's early stages through addiction education? Here is a idea. Each new applicant applying for assistance would be required to use a percentage of their assistance to complete a education class that focuses on addiction. If the person completes the class, and does not meet the early stages of addiction, he or she is given the percentage of assistance back into their EBT card, or individual account. If the person meets the criteria for possible addiction he or she would be given treatment options. Respectfully, I understand their are many unanswered questions with the following discourse on this controversial topic. But, there appear to be answers that can help the low economic family, and society at the same time. Stay in your health, stay in the moment.