Burke: Drug Testing Is Big Government Intrusion on Poor Families

Burke: Drug testing is big government intrusion on poor families

Filed under: Drug Abuse Texas

If they believe drug abuse is one of the causes, they should be bold visionaries and create a program to attack drug abuse. Sadly and most importantly, the policy Perry advocates would harm kids because almost all of Texas' benefit programs, including …
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Rick Perry Calls For Drug-Testing The Poor And Jobless

Filed under: Drug Abuse Texas

"Texas taxpayers will not subsidize or tolerate illegal drug abuse," Perry said in a statement on Tuesday. "Every dollar that goes to someone who uses it inappropriately is a dollar that can't go to a Texan who needs it for housing, child care or …
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State closes deadly drug shipment misbranding case

Filed under: Drug Abuse Texas

The Texas attorney general's office has resolved its case against a Dallas-based mail-order compounding pharmacy over a shipment of a misbranded drug ingredient blamed for three Pacific Northwest deaths. An attorney general's office statement Tuesday …
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