Welfare Receipt and Substance-Abuse Treatment Among Low-income Mothers: The Impact of Welfare Reform

~ Jason Schwartz

A RAND study concludes:

Welfare is a major access point to identify and serve low-income mothers with substance-use disorders, but it reaches a smaller proportion of illicit drug users than it did prereform. Declining welfare receipt among low-income mothers with substance abuse disorders poses a new challenge in serving this population.

Declining welfare receipt may pose a challenge to reaching this population, but nowhere near the challenge that drug testing would create. Several state legislature candidates are advocating more screening and, where there is suspicion of drug use, testing.

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Published by Jason Schwartz

I have been an addiction professional and social worker since 1994. I started blogging in 2005 as the Clinical Director at Dawn Farm. I currently serve as the Director of Social Work and Spiritual Care for a healthcare system. I've also served as the Director of Behavioral Health at another hospital. I'm also a lecturer at Eastern Michigan University’s School of Social Work. Views expressed here are my own. Keep in mind that the field, the contexts in which the field operates, and my views have changed over time.

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