NCJ Number
175679
Date Published
February 1999
Length
15 pages
Annotation
This document presents a list of highlights of the 1999 National Drug Control Strategy of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, figures on trends in drug abuse and efforts to address it, drug prevention materials directed to parents and grandparents, and descriptions of research-based drug prevention programs.
Abstract
The overall objective of the strategy is to achieve a 50-percent reduction in drug use and availability and at least a 25-percent reduction in the consequences of drug abuse. Its primary goal is to educate and enable youth to reject drug abuse. It also focuses on drug treatment, drug law enforcement, supply reduction at the source, and international efforts to curtail drug production and trafficking. Statistics on drug abuse trends reveal that the country had 13.9 million current users of any illicit drug in the total household population aged 12 and older, a decline from the peak year of 1979, when 25 million people abused illegal drugs. Total drug control funding recommended for fiscal year 2000 is $17.8 billion, a 4.3- percent increase over the regular appropriations for fiscal year 1999. Figures and order form