DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL MEETING - JULY 24

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Domestic Policy Council Meeting - July 24
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REMARKS:
The Domestic Policy Council will meet on Thursday,
July 24, 1986 at 2:00 P.M. in the Roosevelt Room.
Two background papers on Drug Abuse Policy are attached
for your review.
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July 23, 1986
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SUBJECT: Background Materials on Drug Abuse Policy
Enclosed are two documents to serve as background materials for
the July 24, 1986 discussion on Drug Abuse Policy. The first is
a copy of the National Strategy for Prevention of Drug Abuse and
Drug Trafficking, prepared in 1984. This describes the strategy
developed in 1981 by the President.
The second document is a typed Summary of the National Strategy.
An additional discussion paper will be handed out at the meeting,
focusing on a more immediate issue.
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NATIONAL
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PRESIDENT REAGAN'S RATIONAL STRATEGY
FOR PREVENTION OF DRUG ABUSE AND DRUG TRAFFICKING
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The National Strategy for Prevention of Drug Abuse and Drug
Trafficking is a comprehensive, long-term approach to eliminate
drug abuse and its effects in the United States. The President's
five-point program includes:
? Drug abuse prevention,
? Drug law enforcement,
? International cooperation,
? Medical detoxification and treatment, and
? Research.
The Strategy goes beyond the Federal responsibilities and
establishes a "national" strategy, recognizing that real success
is achieved when those people most affected by drug and alcohol
abuse are directly involved in solving their own problems.
The responsibility for the successful implementation of the
Strategy to eliminate drug abuse is shared by government and the
private sector. The National Strategy calls upon Federal
government officials to take the following actions:
? To encourage and support the actions of parents and other
concerned citizens in combating drug abuse in their homes,
neighborhoods, schools, businesses and communities;
? To pursue those anti-drug activities which lie beyond the
jurisdictions and capabilities of the individual states,
including primary responsibility for enforcing Federal laws,
for international cooperation and for certain research
activities;
? To ensure that Federal drug programs effectively meet the
specific needs which exist within communities throughout the
United States, with priorities established on a local or
regional basis; and
? To continue improvements in the use of Federal resources,
with an emphasis on coordination and cooperation among
officials at all levels of government and use of government
resources as a catalyst for grassroots action.
In addition, the Strategy calls on each American to learn what
needs to be done to eliminate drug abuse and to get involved in
doing it. All individuals; all business, civic and social
organizations; all levels of government and all agencies,
departments and activities within each level of government are
called upon to lead, direct, sponsor and support efforts to
eliminate drug abuse in families, businesses and communities.
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DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION
Drug abuse prevention -- through awareness, education and action
-- is fundamental to long-term success in stopping drug abuse and
drug-related crime in our society. Priority must be given to
motivating our young children, before they become involved with
drugs, to never use drugs, including alcohol; and we must also
convince current users to stop drug use.
The drug abuse prevention strategy continues the partnership
between government and the private sector to bring the full range
of this country's resources to bear on reducing existing drug and
alcohol abuse and ultimately to provide a drug-free environment
for all Americans, especially our young people. The National
Strategy calls for the following action by responsible Federal
government officials, recognizing that success will not be
achieved without the direct involvement and support of state and
local government officials and the private sector:
? To provide all possible encouragement and support to a
vigorous national drug abuse prevention and education
effort;
? To ensure that accurate and credible information about drug
and alcohol abuse is made widely and readily available to
individuals aid groups through nationwide public awareness
campaigns, publications and technical assistance;
? To encourage and support prevention programs for young
children which teach positive behavior, such as constructive
handling of feelings and responsibilities;
? To support prevention activities which stimulate the
participation of volunteers and the private sector;
? To encourage and assist the continued involvement in drug
abuse prevention and education by private business, which
has a unique capability to communicate accurate information
about drug abuse in a credible way to large segments of the
population;
? To integrate drug abuse education into the school system,
and encourage its integration into private school programs,
with emphasis on the destructive effects of drug use,
including alcohol, on excellence in education, health and
overall well-being;
? To encourage and assist adults in meeting their
responsibility of providing youth with positive leadership
and a sound role model;
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? To discourage activities which deliberately promote drug
use, such as the commercial exploitation of drugs of abuse
and the associated "drug culture;" the artificial
glamorization of mind-altering and mood-changing drugs,
including alcohol; and the sensationalized reporting by the
mass media of drug and alcohol use by contemporary sports
and entertainment figures;
? To discourage use of terms which foster misconceptions and
hinder understanding of the nature of drug problems,
including "recreational use" of drugs, "responsible use" of
drugs and alcohol, "substance abuse," "decriminalization,"
"getting high," and defining drugs as "hard" or "soft;"
? To encourage and support a nationwide, comprehensive,
community-based etfort to eliminate drunk driving;
? To provide strong support for efforts to stop alcohol use by
school-age children by increasing the awareness of the
significant hazards posed to children by alcohol and by
increasing the involvement of adults in reducing these
risks;
? To reduce the practice of encouraging drinking among youth
as a marketing technique by increasing public awareness and
visibility, including identification of the sponsors and
holding them responsible;
? To encourage the alcoholic beverage produces and
distributors to police their own industry in developing and
marketing their products;
? To encourage all states to establish 21 as the minimum age
at which individuals may purchase, possess or consume
alcoholic beverages; and
? To encourage and assist the continued involvement by
physicians, pharmacists and other health care professionals
in finding ways to reduce the dangers of misuse of
prescription drugs, in making people more aware of the risks
involved in combining alcohol with prescription drugs, and
in making full use of available information on drug abuse
research, treatment and prevention.
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DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT
Vigorous drug law enforcement reduces the availability of illicit
drugs in the United States, deters drug-related crime and creates
an environment favorable to reducing the production and abuse of
illicit drugs. The Strategy continues the goal of bringing to
bear the full range of Federal, state and local government
resources on stopping the drugs, wherever they are grown,
processed, transported and used, and apprehending and prosecuting
those responsible for transporting and distributing illicit
drugs, as well as the financiers and organizers.
The National Strategy calls upon each involved Federal official
to work toward achieving the following objectives:
? Continued expansion of the involvement of every Federal
enforcement agency which has any capability for contributing
to the fight against drug abuse;
? Continued improvements in cooperation between law
enforcement otficials and prosecutors at all levels of
government to achieve prompt and certain justice in
prosecuting drug trattickers, seizing their assets, and
destroying their criminal organizations; and
? Continued innovation in expanding the use and enhancing the
etfectiveness of all available government resources and
jurisdictions in investigating and prosecuting illegal drug
activities, deterring crime and preventing drug abuse.
Fundamental to the overall Strategy is the investigation and
prosecution of drug tratfickers and the destruction of their
criminal organizations.
? The Strategy calls for Federal, state and local law
enforcement otficers and prosecutors to pursue aggressive
investigation and prosecution of the full range of criminal
activities associated with drug tratficking organizations.
? The Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, other Federal
investigative agencies, and the U.S. Attorneys will continue
to ensure the investigation and prosecution of high level
drug traffickers and the destruction of their criminal
organizations through all possible means, including Federal
action, intergovernmental action, or assisting action by
state, local and foreign officials.
? The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, with involvement by other appropriate
Federal agencies and state and local law enforcement
otticials, will continue to place emphasis on criminal
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investigation of health care professionals who are
tratticking in drugs.
? A high priority is established for pursuing the financial
aspects of drug trafficking, including use of criminal and
civil forfeiture laws, currency laws, tax laws and
international agreements against tax evasion and money
laundering.
? State and local governments are encouraged to adopt and use
powerful criminal and civil forfeiture laws to combat
organized crime and the drug traffic. States are also
encouraged to use the money derived from asset forfeiture to
construct and operate prisons to handle the increase in
prisoner population.
The border program emphasizes major cooperative interdiction
efforts which utilize all available resources, including enhanced
intelligence and military support, to detect and intercept
illicit drugs before they are smuggled into the United States.
In addition to continued improvements in the coordination of the
massive effort, which is the responsibility of the National
Narcotics Border Interdiction System (NNBIS), the Strategy calls
for the following actions by Federal agencies to improve the
existing border program.
? The U.S. Customs Service will continue to improve detection
of illegal drug shipments in legitimate cargo;
? The Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Aviation
Administration and U.S. Customs Service should work
together, with the support of other agencies as necessary,
to implement added deterrents to smuggling by general
aviation aircraft, including stronger penalties for
violators.
? The Department of State, the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, and the Customs Service will enhance the screening
process of foreign visitors to the United States to preclude
those with prior drug smuggling involvement from entering
the country. This includes denying entry visas to any
foreign national who has a drug violation or is involved in
drug trafficking.
? The Drug Enforcement Administration will work with other
appropriate Federal agencies and with state, local and
foreign government law enforcement officials to ensure use
of all potential sources of interdiction intelligence, both
in foreign countries and within the United States.
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NNBIS and all involved Federal departments and agencies will
work to improve the detection capability throughout our
border areas against attempted intrusions by air, land and
sea.
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NNBIS will work with the Drug Enforcement Administration
develop and implement an expanded coordinating role for
El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC).
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In addition to border operations, the Strategy calls for
Federal agencies to work with state and local officials
whenever possible to assist them in developing innovative
programs to detect and intercept illicit drug shipments in
transit within the United States.
The National Strategy calls for elimination of the production of
illicit drugs in the United States.
? The Drug Enforcement Administration, with the assistance of
other appropriate government agencies, will continue to
improve the national cannabis (marijuana) eradication
program through training, technical assistance and
intelligence support.
? The Strategy calls for concerned private citizens to report
the location of suspected marijuana production to their
local law enforcement agency.
? The Strategy also calls for strong penalties for those who
are producing or selling marijuana.
? The Drug Enforcement Administration will encourage and
coordinate increased Federal, state and local law
enforcement action against clandestine laboratories,
including sharing information and technical assistance, as
well as continued cooperation in the investigation and
prosecution of major violators.
As lead agency, the Drug Enforcement Administration is required
provide central leadership, management and coordination in the
following areas which are essential to strong drug law
enforcement and other efforts to reduce the availability of
drugs.
? Federal, state and local agencies must continue to work
together, and with the international, pharmaceutical and
health care communities, to reduce the diversion of
pharmaceutical drugs from legitimate uses into the illicit
drug traffic and the illegal manufacture and distribution of
such substances.
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? Continued refinement must be made in the intelligence
necessary to support investigative and interdiction
priorities, diplomatic initiatives and international drug
control programs, policy formulation, management and the
development of future national strategies against drug abuse
and drug tratticking.
? The Drug Enforcement Administration will develop objective
statistical means for central reporting of the
accomplishments of the Federal government in drug law
enforcement and prosecution, including establishing a
central system for maintenance and timely dissemination of
statistics regarding drug seizures by Federal agencies.
The Strategy calls for swift and just punishment of individuals
involved in drug tratficking and related criminal activities.
? Prosecutors at all levels of government are encouraged to
aggressively prosecute drug criminals and to present drug
cases in the Federal, state or local judicial system best
suited to provide swift and certain justice.
? The full support of our citizens and the cooperation of the
Congress in reforming our criminal justice laws will greatly
enhance the effectiveness of drug law enforcement.
? Judges, probation officers and parole boards are encouraged
to give full recognition to the seriousness of drug
offenses. Judges are encouraged to provide for strict
sentencing, including just punishment for first offenders in
drug trafficking cases.
The Strategy calls for full involvement by all levels of law
enforcement in contributing to drug abuse awareness and
prevention and in encouraging and facilitating the involvement of
private citizens in supporting strong law enforcement, including
the reporting of illegal drug production, sales or use to their
local law enforcement agency and supporting just punishment of
drug criminals.
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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Drug abuse is an international problem requiring international
cooperation to reduce the availability of illicit drugs in the
United States by eliminating illegal drugs as close to their
source as possible. The Strategy for international cooperation
continues a multi-faceted approach directed at the cultivation,
production and distribution of licit and illicit drugs; the flow
of profits associated with illicit drugs; and the effects of the
drug trade and drug abuse on other countries as well as the
United States.
Strong diplomatic initiatives by the President, the Vice
President, the Secretary of State, other Cabinet officers,
Ambassadors, and by the senior officers of Federal departments
and agencies are fundamental to raising international awareness
of the illicit drug problem and encouraging increased action by
affected governments -- producer nations, transit nations and
consumer nations. Diplomatic initiatives are directed toward the
following objectives:
? To improve and strengthen the relationships between the
United States and the primary drug producing and transit
countries; and
? To spur mutual concern and shared responsibility that will
provide long-term improvement, both in the availability of a
wider range of resources from a greater number of donor
nations and in diplomatic initiatives which promote the
political will necessary to control drugs.
The United States will continue to take the following actions to
encourage and assist governments of producer countries to
undertake crop control- programs as the most effective means of
curbing production:
? Pursuing diplomatic means to heighten the awareness of the
governments of producer countries of not only the inter-
national effects of their country's drug cultivation and
production, but also the internal effects on their own
people;
? Encouraging the governments of producer countries to
demonstrate their commitment to crop control through
scheduled reduction in cultivation and production; and
? Encouraging and supporting foreign government programs to
control drug production through bans on illicit cultivation
and containing licit production to remain within legitimate
needs, reinforced where appropriate by destruction of
illicit crops including eradication by chemical spraying and
other means.
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The Strategy includes development assistance, when necessary, to
produce alternative sources of income for the farmers and also
increase a host government's ability to institute measures
against illicit drugs.
? To ensure the effectiveness of development assistance,
U.S. decisions on foreign aid and other matters, such as
refinancing of debt, should be tied, where necessary and
appropriate, to the willingness of the recipient country to
execute a vigorous enforcement program against narcotics
tratfickers, including the people associated with producing,
transporting or profiting from illegal drugs.
? The United States will encourage other developed nations to
support international narcotics control programs,
financially and with other resources, including
developmental assistance linked with crop control and
cooperative law enforcement efforts.
? The United States will encourage international organizations
and development banks to link their assistance with
narcotics control objectives, where appropriate.
The Strategy encourages concurrent, strong criminal legislation
and aggressive drug law enforcement by the host government in all
source and transit countries. To ensure strong drug law
enforcement on an international basis, the United States will
pursue the following activities:
? The United States will encourage and support the
interdiction of illicit drugs at every opportunity, within
the source countries, in transit countries along the
tratticking routes and at any border crossing while being
transported.
? U.S. investigative agencies will continue a high level of
cooperation with foreign drug control agencies including
multinational investigations and prosecutions of drug
criminals, and the collection and sharing of intelligence on
illicit drug production and trafficking.
? The United States will provided assistance to host
government law enforcement agencies in the form of
equipment, training and technical services, when necessary,
appropriate and tied to a demonstrated commitment to drug
law enforcement by the host government.
? U.S. law enforcement agencies will continue to be actively
involved in and support international and regional
organizations concerned with drug law enforcement.
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? The United States will encourage governments to give illegal
financial activities associated with drug trafficking a high
level of attention and a priority for cooperative action by
law enforcement agencies and by the regulators of the
banking industry, nationally and internationally.
? The United States will promote the establishment of
innovative mutual assistance treaties with foreign
governments, directed at facilitating judicial actions
against the drug trade, seizing assets derived from drug
trafficking, eliminating banking procedures which hide
illicit drug transactions, and extradition and other legal
arrangements.
The United States will continue to work with other nations and
with the international community to curtail the diversion of
pharmaceuticals and chemicals from legitimate international
commerce.
The United States will continue to take the following actions to
reduce the international demand for illicit drugs, thereby
reinforcing long-range efforts to eliminate the production of
illicit drugs:
? Encourage the governments of producing and transiting
countries to recognize that their populations can also be
victims of drug abuse, and thereby enlisting their
cooperation in international drug control;
? Encourage recognition of the social and economic effects of
the immense sums of illegal money that challenge the
legitimate economies of some nations;
? Foster an increased awareness on the part of other
industrialized nations and their governments of their
domestic drug abuse problems, both to stimulate internal
prevention efforts and to encourage their participation in
international drug control efforts;
? Provide technical assistance in planning and developing
demand reduction programs; and
? Achieve active participation in demand reduction by
international organizations and non-government groups, where
appropriate.
In support of the international program, the United States must
fulfill the same treaty obligations which the U.S. Government
urges other nations to meet. This will be accomplished by
controlling production and trafficking of illicit substances
within U.S. borders. The Strategy calls upon all citizens and
government officials to support this important objective.
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MEDICAL DETOXIFICATION AND TREATMENT
Medical detoxification and treatment is essential if millions of
Americans are to overcome the physical, psychological and social
problems of drug abuse.
Federal agencies should encourage and assist all efforts to
achieve more effective use of the existing national treatment
system, including development of treatment programs which are
more responsive to local priorities and the specific needs of a
varied user population.
The Federal government will continue to place a high priority on
providing information and guidance for drug abuse treatment based
on the results of biomedical, clinical and epidemiological
research, including the dissemination of research findings and
general information to health professionals and their educators
and to the general public.
The Federal government will continue to actively seek less
expensive, more etfective treatment alternatives and make these
alternatives available to the national treatment system.
The Federal government will continue to support treatment and
prevention activities through the block grant program, along with
programs in the Bureau of Prisons and Social Security
Administration, and through continued provision of services in
the military establishment and the Veterans Administration.
The U.S. Parole Commission will continue to provide drug and
alcohol treatment through the U.S. Probation System, including
early detection of abuse and provision for a quick return to
custody if an individual poses a danger to the community.
The Strategy encourages states to support programs directed at
youngsters who have just started using drugs and alcohol and who
have not yet established a total lifestyle around drug use.
The Strategy calls for each local community to support treatment
facilities and approaches appropriate to the special needs of the
local community, including responding to immediate and acute
medical treatment and of longer-term support in a non-drug
environment.
The Strategy continues to call for the integration of drug and
alcohol abuse treatment into general health care.
The Strategy encourages treatment facilities to promote drug-free
treatment programs whenever possible.
The Strategy continues to call for efforts to educate health care
professionals about drug and alcohol problems.
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The Strategy calls for the National Institute of Mental Health
and mental health specialists to seek active involvement in
alcohol and drug issues, recognizing that alcohol and drugs are
reported to be the number one and number two causes of mental
health problems. NIMH should also sponsor research to study
mechanisms by which alcohol and drug abuse create mental health
problems.
A high priority must be given to the development and
implementation of programs and procedures to identify, remove and
treat individuals who are in jobs where their drug abuse
endangers the public safety.
The Strategy sets a high priority for the establishment and
operation of employee assistance programs in both the private and
public sectors to save lives and reduce the health and economic
costs of alcohol and drug-related problems.
The Strategy encourages private industry,-religious groups,
private organizations and state agencies to work together to
support treatment programs.
The Strategy encourages the expansion of alcohol and drug abuse
treatment services throughout the private sector, including the
expansion of third-party payments for the treatment of alcoholism
and drug abuse.
The Strategy emphasizes the need for state and private treatment
programs to ensure that youthful drug and alcohol abusers are
receiving appropriate treatment services.
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RESEARCH
Research, carefully planned and widely undertaken, can reinforce
all efforts to prevent, treat and control drug problem by
expanding our knowledge concerning drug abuse.
The Strategy supports the development of new knowledge about drug
use patterns, risk factors and the long-term etfects of drugs,
including interdisciplinary research integrating data from the
criminal justice system, social sciences, biochemistry, etc. The
Strategy calls for a balanced program between basic and applied
research.
The Strategy objectives for research emphasize producing accurate
and clearly written information about drugs and alcohol and
making this information widely available in an understandable
form for use in education and prevention efforts.
The Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA)
will continue to support longitudinal and other epidemiological
research to expand knowledge of alcohol and drug use patterns,
risk factors and the long-term health etfects of alcohol and drug
abuse.
ADAMHA, with input from other involved agencies, will critically
review each component of the epidemiology program to maintain the
quality and credibility of the methods and findings and to
determine if there are more etficient and economical approaches
which would increase their utility.
Other national epidemiological data systems operated by various
government agencies will be used to augment the information
needed for answering questions about alcohol and drug abuse
whenever appropriate.
The Strategy calls for the development of an effective system to
monitor the composition, potency and probable source of illicit
drugs. The Department of Justice has responsibility for the
project.
ADAMHA will continue its efforts at the Federal level to gain new
knowledge of the basic mechanisms underlying drug and alcohol
abuse and to develop new biomedical behavioral and
pharmacological methodologies for the prevention, diagnosis and
treatment of drug and alcohol abuse. Specific research
activities in support of the Strategy include:
? Investigating the biological interactions between the
combination of alcohol and marijuana, between alcohol and
other drugs, and in the development of alcoholism;
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? Continuing the study of brain receptor mechanisms such as
those identitied for naturally occurring opiate-like
peptides and those associated with reward sensations related
to cocaine and heroin;
? Investigating the effects of alcohol consumption on neuro-
transmitters and their receptors;
? Continuing to investigate the basic biological and
behavioral processes atfected by alcohol, marijuana,
cocaine, heroin and other psychoactive drugs;
? Studying the efficacy and cost effectiveness of different
drug and alcohol abuse treatment approaches;
? Studying the adverse medical consequences of alcohol abuse
and alcoholism and the genetic factors that may help explain
why individuals seem to differ in their vulnerabilities to
the medical problems associated with alcohol and drug
consumption;
? Continuing efforts to determine the abuse and addiction
potential of drugs;
? Developing testing methods which will identify persons under
the influence of various drugs with at least the same degree
of accuracy as present methods of testing to identify
persons under the influence of alcohol;
? Developing techniques for effectively preventing
alcohol-related and drug-related problems within various age
groups; and
? Continuing to examine the biological and behavioral factors
which may predispose some individuals to drug and alcohol
addiction and tend to make others resistant.
One of the highest priorities for research efforts is the
development of agonist/antagonist or antagonist drugs which
reduce patient treatment costs and improve the success of
rehabilitation efforts.
ADAMHA will enhance the effectiveness of scientists and research
projects by regularly reviewing, aggregating and assessing new
information and knowledge and by ensuring that the results are
widely available within the research community.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse will be responsible for the
development and general availability of comprehensive annotated
bibliographic sources designed to provide practitioners,
researchers and the general public with readily available
subject-indexed information on principal drugs of abuse.
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The Strategy encourages the pharmaceutical community, colleges,
universities and professional health care organizations to
undertake extensive drug research, including increased research
on orphan drugs.
The Strategy supports the expansion of research directed at basic
knowledge and the associated applications of the findings in drug
and alcohol abuse prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. A
high priority will be assigned to basic work on the
interrelationships between marijuana and alcohol and between
alcohol and other drugs.
The Strategy also supports the recognition by the mental health
community of the destructive role that drug and alcohol abuse
play in mental health and calls for full recognition of the
interrelationship and increasingly close cooperation between the
three related Federal health institutes, particularly in the area
of research.
Copies of the complete National Strategy for Prevention of Drug
Abuse and Drug Trafficking, published in 1984, may be obtained
from the White House Drug Abuse Policy Office -- (202) 456-6554
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