NCJ Number
150489
Date Published
1994
Length
140 pages
Annotation
The 1994 National Drug Control Strategy is designed to redirect and reinvigorate the fight against drug use and drug trafficking by focusing on chronic drug use and associated violence, prevention and education efforts targeting young drug users, the empowerment of local communities, and changes to international drug control policies.
Abstract
The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 requires the Federal Government to produce a comprehensive National Drug Control Strategy that identifies needed resources and measurable goals. With an estimated 2.7 million hardcore drug users on the streets and Americans spending $49 billion annually on illegal drugs, the 1994 National Drug Control Strategy establishes the following specific objectives: reduce the number of hardcore drug users through drug treatment at an average annual rate of 5 percent; reduce the number of casual or intermittent drug users at an average annual rate of 5 percent; guarantee basic drug treatment services as part of the proposed Health Security Act; reverse the recent increase in the prevalence of illicit drug and tobacco use among students by 1996; put 100,000 more police officers on the street to work with communities; ensure that Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities address drug use, trafficking, and prevention; double the number of community antidrug coalitions by 1996; and strengthen drug control initiatives that focus on source countries. For fiscal year 1995, $13.2 billion has been requested to fund drug control efforts. The budget requests additional resources in four major program areas: (1) reducing hardcore drug use through treatment; (2) ensuring safe and drug-free schools by improving drug prevention programs; (3) empowering communities to combat drug-related violence and crime; and (4) increasing international program efforts. Additional information on the National Drug Control Strategy is contained in three appendixes. Endnotes, tables, and figures