Glossary: Abbreviations and Acronyms

ACSI	Americas Counter-Smuggling Initiative.
ADAM	Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring System, formerly known as the Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) program.
AIDS	Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
ASEAN	Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
ATF	Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
ATS	Amphetamine-Type Stimulants.
BASC	Business Anti-Smuggling Coalition, a program of the U.S. Customs Service.
BCI	Border Coordination Initiative
BJA	Bureau of Justice Assistance, part of the U.S. Department of Justice.
BJS	Bureau of Justice Statistics, part of the U.S. Department of Justice.
BOP	Bureau of Prisons, part of the U.S. Department of Justice.
BTC	Breaking The Cycle.
CADCA	Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America.
CALDATA	California Drug and Alcohol Treatment Assessment.
CAPTs	Centers for the Application of Prevention Technologies.
CARICOM	Caribbean Community.
CASA	Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, a research organization based at Columbia University.
CBT	Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment.
CEWG	Community Epidemiology Work Group.
CDC	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CICAD	Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission, a body of the Organization of American States.
CIP	Carrier Initiative Programs, an ongoing initiative of the U.S. Customs Service.
CNP	Colombian National Police.
CN-IWG	Counter-Narcotics Working Group.
COPS	Community Oriented Policing Services, a program of the Department of Justice.
CRA	Community Reinforcement Approach.
CSAP	Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, a component of SAMHSA, an operating division within the Department of Health and Human Services.
CSAT	Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, a component of SAMHSA an operating division within the Department of Health and Human Services.
CTAC	Counter-Drug Technology Assessment Center.
CTN	National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network.
DAICC	Domestic Air Interdiction Coordination Center.
D.A.R.E.	Drug Abuse Resistance Education.
DATOS	Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study, run by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
DAWN	Drug Abuse Warning Network, a SAMHSA-funded program which monitors drug abuse among persons admitted at hospital emergency rooms.
DEA	Drug Enforcement Administration, part of the Department of Justice.
DFS3	Drug-Free Schools State Supplement.
DFWP	Drug-Free Workplace Program.
DOD	U.S. Department of Defense.
DOJ	U.S. Department of Justice.
DOL	U.S. Department of Labor.
DOT	U.S. Department of Transportation.
DUF	Drug Use Forecasting program. Now known as ADAM.
EAP	Employee Assistance Program.
EPA	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
EU	European Union.
FAS	Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
FATF	Financial Action Task Force, an international grouping of nations that fight money laundering.
FBI	Federal Bureau of Investigation, part of the Department of Justice.
FDA	Food and Drug Administration, part of the Department of Health and Human Services.
FDSS	Federal-Wide Drug Seizure System.
FY	Fiscal Year.
GAO	Government Accounting Office
GHB	Gamma-hydroxybutyrate.
G.R.E.A.T.	Gang Resistance Education and Training.
GTO	Geographic Targeting Order, a tool used to fight money laundering.
Hcl	Cocaine Hydrochloride.
HHS	U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
HIDTA	High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, a counterdrug initiative overseen by the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
HIV	Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
HLCG	U.S./Mexico High Level Contact Group on Drug Control.
HUD	U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
ICRC	International Certification Reciprocity Consortium/Alcohol and Other Drugs.
IEEPA	International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a law that deals with money laundering and the financial proceeds of drug trafficking.
ILEA	International Law Enforcement Academy.
INCSR	International Narcotics Control Strategy Report.
IDU	Injection Drug User.
INCASE	International Coalition of Addiction Studies Educators.
INS	U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, part of the Department of Justice.
IOM	Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Science.
ISIS/RVS	Integrated Surveillance Intelligence System and Remote Video Surveillance.
JIATF	Joint Interagency Task Force.
LAAM	Levo-alph-acetyl-methadol.
LSD	Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, a hallucinogen.
MDMA	3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, an illegally produced stimulant that has hallucinogenic properties.
MTF	Monitoring the Future, a long-term study of youth drug abuse and attitudes, run by the University of Michigan and funded by NIDA.
NAADAC	National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors.
NCHS	National Center for Health Statistics.
NDATUS	National Drug and Alcoholism Treatment Unit Survey.
NHSDA	National Household Survey of Drug Abuse, the most comprehensive of the many national surveys of drug abuse, funded by SAMHSA.
NHTSA	National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, part of the Department of Transportation.
NIAAA	National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, one of the National Institutes of Health and part of the Department of Health and Human Services.
NICCP	National Interdiction Command and Control Plan.
NIDA	National Institute on Drug Abuse, one of the National Institutes of Health and part of the Department of Health and Human Services.
NIH	National Institutes of Health, part of the Department of Health and Human Services.
NIJ	National Institute of Justice, part of the Department of Justice.
NNICC	National Narcotics Intelligence Consumers Committee.
NRC	U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
NTIES	National Treatment Improvement Evaluation Study.
OAS	Organization of American States.
OCDETF	Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, a program of the Department of Justice.
OJJDP	Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, part of the Department of Justice.
OJP	Office of Justice Programs, part of the Department of Justice.
OMB	Office of Management and Budget.
ONDCP	Office of National Drug Control Policy.
OPM	Office of Personnel Management.
PCP	Phencyclidine, a clandestinely manufactured hallucinogen.
PDFA	Partnership for a Drug-Free America, a private organization that promotes private-sector involvement in the creation of anti-drug messages.
PEPS	The Prevention Enhancement Protocols System developed by CSAP.
PME	Performance Measures of Effectiveness.
POE	Port of Entry.
PRIDE	Parent's Resource Institute for Drug Education.
SAID	Substance Abuse Information Database.
SAMHSA	Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. An operating division within the Department of Health and Human Services.
SAPT	Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment.
SBA	Small Business Administration.
SDFSP	Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Program.
SIDS	Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
SIG	State Incentive Grant.
SIFCF	Survey of Inmates in Federal Correctional Facilities.
SISCF	Survey of Inmates in State Correction Facilities.
SMART	Self Management and Resistance Training.
SROS	Services Research Outcomes Study.
STD	Sexually Transmitted Disease.
STRIDE	System To Retrieve Information from Drug Evidence, a program of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
SWBI	Southwest Border Initiative.
TASC	Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities.
THC	tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive substance in marijuana.
TIC	The Interdiction Committee.
TIPS	Treatment Improvement Protocols.
UCR	Uniform Crime Reports, a publication of the FBI.
UFDS	Uniform Facility Data Set, administered by SAMHSA.
UK	United Kingdom.
UN	United Nations.
UNGASS	UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs.
UNDCP	United Nations International Drug Control Programme.
U.S.	United States.
USAID	U.S. Agency for International Development.
USCG	United States Coast Guard.
USCS	United States Customs Service.
USDA	Department of Agriculture.
USG	United States Government.
USIC	United States Interdiction Coordinator.
WtW	Welfare to Work.
XTC	a street name for MDMA.
YRBS	Youth Risk Behavior Survey.

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1999 National Drug Control Strategy	Office of National Drug Control Policy