NCJ Number
164654
Date Published
1993
Length
254 pages
Annotation
The national drug strategy in the United States is based on lessons of the past and attempts to break the drug treatment gridlock, improve drug law enforcement, and attack drug suppliers.
Abstract
Lessons learned to date in drug control concern hard core addiction, targeting the streets by State and local drug law enforcement agencies, drug treatment, international drug control efforts, drug abuse prevention, and the role of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. The report recommends that Federal drug efforts embrace a truly national strategy, that political leaders face tough choices, that drug treatment shortfalls be corrected, that medicines be developed to treat drug addiction, that international efforts be increased to target drug kingpins and to control drug smuggling, and that education and prevention programs be provided for school children. Supplemental information on the U.S. drug control strategy is contained in three appendixes. Footnotes, tables, and figures