Indiana House Approves Welfare Drug Test BillPhillip Smith The bill would require all adult recipients of Temporary Aid for Needy Families (TANF) benefits to undergo an assessment to see if there is reasonable suspicion that they might be using illicit drugs. Recipients who are deemed suspicious would then go into a pool for random drug testing, with half of the pool members being subjected to drug testing. People who fail the drug test would lose their benefits unless they enrolled in a drug treatment program and produced negative results on future drug tests. Repeated positive drug tests could result in the permanent loss of benefits. The House approved the bill despite a legislative staff financial analysis that showed the state would spend $2.7 million on the program to possibly the save the state $1.5 million in denied benefits. That means the state would lose $1.2 million next year if the bill were to become law. Please visit and support StopTheDrugWar.org to help end prohibition. linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 