NCJ Number
152410
Date Published
February 1994
Length
193 pages
Annotation
This companion volume to the National Drug Control Strategy, which was transmitted to Congress by the President in February 1994, addresses the strategy's Federal resource priorities and presents related budget summary tables, summaries of fiscal year 1995 budget requests from relevant agencies, and supplementary funding information.
Abstract
The report's first section outlines the President's 1995 funding request for drug-related programs, as well as the drug-related priorities and objectives. Four major budget initiatives are includes in the request. The first two initiative focuses on reducing the demand for illicit drugs through treatment and prevention programs. The third initiative provides resources to communities for confronting the problems of drug use and its health and crime consequences, particularly for youth and difficult-to-reach populations. The remaining initiative enhances international programs in order to give producer countries the means to attack drug production and trafficking at their sources. The section on budget summary tables highlights drug control funding through a functional budget summary and agency budget summaries for fiscal years 1993-1995. The section on agency budget summaries for fiscal year 1995 encompasses departmental and agency drug-related accounts that are included in the National Drug Control Budget. The report's final section presents supplementary information on funding levels, including historical funding levels by function for 1981 through the President's request for 1995. Extensive tables