The drug testing of SNAP recipients is yet another ideological sideshow that disfigures substance-abuse policy. It falsely implies that substance use disorders are a widespread cause of welfare dependence. It also implies, again falsely, that these disorders are highly concentrated among recipients of public aid.
– Harold Pollack and Sheldon Danziger, writing in the Washington Post (Source: http://wapo.st/17MV4k9)