Kansas Passes Law To Drug–Test Welfare and Unemployment Recipients
Brownback called drug addiction a “scourge on Kansas,” but the drug-testing regime is imprecise at best in addressing addiction. Drug tests are much more successful at detecting marijuana, which stays in the body longer, than they are at detecting more …
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Meth Addiction Cure: UCLA Tests Ibudilast On Human Addicts – Huffington Post
LOS ANGELES — The Food and Drug Administration has fast-tracked human tests of what may be the first cure for methamphetamine addiction. The drug also may be the first non-opiate drug treatment for heroin and opiate addiction. In a recent trial, UCLA …
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Brownback signs bill that requires welfare, unemployment recipients to be …
TOPEKA — Calling drug addiction a “scourge in Kansas,” Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law Tuesday a bill to test welfare and unemployment recipients suspected of using illegal drugs. “This is a horrific thing that hits so many people,” he said. “What …
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