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The U.S federal government started featuring drug testing on workplaces as a segment of War on Drugs during the administration of President Ronald Reagan in 1986. So any employer who had a contract with federal government of 25 thousand U.S dollars or more was enforced to promote drug-free workplace in 1988. They should enable drug testing as an essential condition for fulfillment of requirements for their employees. Various businesses that don’t have such contracts with the U.S federal government were enforced to follow this law. Now, it is estimated that more than 62 percent of the U.S employers have implemented the drug-free programs in their workplaces.

A number of U.S States have planned the drug testing of welfare applicants and recipients that are in the wake of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. A number of these designed programs were in the shelf of the lawmaking authorities. Welfare drug testing program ran away from three states Arizona, Missouri and Florida in 2011. These states passed new law that made essential drug testing only for some groups of TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). At least 14 states authorized welfare drug testing program at the end of 2014 and two more states also imposed similar law for drug testing in 2015. A number of these laws had uncertainty in drug testing because the state agency should have a practical apprehension in order to test the person that is any individual getting drugs and the reasons behind it.