Drugs don’t affect job seeking, so let’s offer users help rather than take away their payments

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 these measures will only serve to further marginalise people on welfare and people who use drugs, and may have a range of unintended consequences such as homelessness. If the government really wanted to assist people who have drug problems to return to work, it would increase funding for drug treatment. What’s being proposed? The new proposal appears very similar to those the Senate previously rejected in 2017 and 2018. A two year trial would test around 5,000 new recipients of

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