“Of 4,425 people screened for drug use after seeking aid, only 813 were deemed to be at high risk of drug use, only 394 were actually subjected to drug testing, and of those, only nine were denied benefits because they tested positive and five are undergoing treatment. The state spent more than $26,000 to achieve these results. It spent more than $5,000 to administer the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory formerly/http://www.sassi.com/products/SASSI3/shopS3-pp.shtml (SASSI) test to applicants and more than $20,000 to pay for drug testing. Those figures do not include staff costs to administer the SASSI test or the costs of drug treatment.”
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/jul/11/utah_spent_26k_ferret_out_welfar
