The reality of these programs is that they do not work and are a huge waste of money, and are as often as not intended as kickbacks to a donor who owns a drug testing company.
Check out the Florida experience - $100 million spent on drug testing, almost zero saved on benefits not distributed as a result.
In the real world this is a huge waste of money and an unwise expansion of federal power.
Without a link to a reputable source this is an assertion, but not proof.
The total population of Florida ia ~19 million. If half is of working age, and there is 8% unemployment, that is 760,000 unemployed people. Weekly maximum unemployment comp in Florida is $275. If we take $200 as an average payment, that would be an annual payment of $7.9 billion.
The $100 million you claim for a cost is 1.3% of the annual payments. We only have to catch 1.3% of the recipients taking drugs to justify the cost.
Are you really claiming that 98.7% of the unemployed can pass a drug test?
My personal observation in Oregon is that no more than 20 to 30% of the unemployed around here could pass a drug test.
Even if the program does not pay for itself, it is effective in combating the moral rot that drugs cause in our society.