NCJ Number
192262
Date Published
February 2002
Length
74 pages
Annotation
This 2002 report documents progress pertinent to the previous Administration's 1998 National Drug Control Strategy as assessed in accordance with the 1997 Performance Measures of Effectiveness (PME).
Abstract
This report focuses on progress made in 2000, the third year of the 1-year 1998 Strategy. The 1998 Strategy had five goals: to educate and enable America's youth to reject illegal drugs as well as alcohol and tobacco; to increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence; to reduce health and social costs to the public of illegal drug use; to shield America's air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat; and to break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply. Overall progress toward the demand-reduction and prevention goal was off track; the expected annual change associated with each numerical target was not realized. Progress toward reducing youth drug and alcohol use was off track relative to the new baseline year of 1999 in three of the five measured areas. Past-month use (ages 12-17) of marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol remained relatively constant between 1999 and 2000; however, both heroin and tobacco use declined. In terms of drug supply, progress toward reducing the quantity of illicit drugs available in U.S. drug markets was off track. Significant progress continued in reducing the crime and violence associated with drug trafficking and use. Crime data from the Uniform Crime Reports reflected reductions in all major categories of violent crime. 16 figures and appended impact targets and measures, drug-related data sources, and congressional performance targets and the PME