Research from the Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation shows that from a sample of 1046 frequent drug users, of those injecting drugs in 2008, 77 percent had used an unemployment or social welfare benefit to pay for the drugs; for methamphetamine users the percentage was 43 and for ecstasy users 18. For injecting drug users this was the main way they paid for their drugs.
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Work and Income cannot compel people on benefits who abuse drugs to accept treatment. Not even if drug and substance abuse is their primary incapacity for being in receipt of a sickness or invalid benefit.
The taxpayer, on the other hand, is compelled to fund their benefits.
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The same goes for single mothers on DPB who need not undertake any form of parenting training, but taxpayers remains financially liable for all their excesses and mistakes.
Dirk
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