Table of Contents

Transmittal Letter from the President

Foreword by General McCaffrey

1. Drug Control Strategy: An Overview
   • Introduction
   • An American View
   • A Comprehensive, Long-Term Plan
   • Mandate for a National Drug Control Strategy
   • Evolution of the National Drug Control Strategy
   • Overview of the 1999 National Drug Control Strategy
   • Elements of the 1999 National Drug Control Strategy
   • Goals of the 1999 Strategy
   • Drug Control is a Continuous Challenge

2. America’s Drug Profile
   • Drug Use Among Americans
   • Consequences of Illegal Drug Use
   • Youth Drug Use: A Problem with Profound Implications
   • Drugs and Crime: An Undeniable Nexus, A Heavy Price
   • Cocaine Abuse: We Are Still Paying the Price for the 1980s
   • Marijuana: The Most Commonly Used Illegal Drug
   • Heroin Abuse: A Resurgent Menace
   • Methamphetamine: A Dangerous Drug, A Spreading Threat
   • Other Substances

3. Goals, Objectives, Targets, and Performance Measures of Effectiveness
   • Introduction
   • Goals, Objectives and Targets
     • Goal 1: Educate and enable America's youth to reject illegal drugs as well as alcohol and tobacco.
     • Goal 2: Increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence.
     • Goal 3: Reduce health and social costs to the public of illegal drug use.
     • Goal 4: Shield America's air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat.
     • Goal 5: Break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply.
   • Targets
     • Demand Reduction
     • Supply Reduction
     • Consequences
   • Monitoring the Strategy's Effectiveness

4. A Comprehensive Approach
   1. A National Strategy
      • State and Local Government
      • State Drug Laws
      • The Role of Communities
      • Civic and Service Alliance
      • Workplace Initiatives
      • Athletic Initiative
      • Faith Initiative
      • Countering Attempts to Legalize Drugs
      • Countering Attempts to Legalize Marijuana

   2. Preventing Drug Abuse
      • The Central Role of Parents
      • National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign
      • Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities
      • Mentoring Initiative
      • Child Welfare and Welfare Reform
      • Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Initiative
      • Youth Tobacco Initiative
      • Youth Alcohol Use Prevention

   3. Treating the Addicted
      • Research on Addiction
      • Closing the Public Treatment System Gap
      • Expanding Treatment for Adolescents
      • Services for Women
      • Providing Services for Vulnerable Populations
      • Substance Abuse and Co-Occurring Mental Disorders
      • Medications for Drug Addiction
      • National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network
      • Treatment Research and Evaluation
      • Improving Federal Drug-Related Data Systems
      • Behavioral Treatment Initiative
      • Reducing Infectious Disease Among Injection Drug Users
      • Training for Substance Abuse Professionals

   4. Breaking the Cycle of Drugs and Crime
      • Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities
      • Drug Courts
      • The Federal Bureau of Prisons' Drug Treatment Program
      • Breaking the Cycle
      • The Drug-Free Prison Zone Demonstration Project
      • Zero Tolerance Drug Supervision Initiative
      • The Need for Partnership Between the Corrections and Treatment Professions

   5. Enforcing the Nation's Laws
      • Coordination Among Law-Enforcement Agencies
      • Community Oriented Policing
      • Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF)
      • High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA)
      • Intelligence/Information Sharing
      • Technology
      • The Prosecution Process
      • Targeting Gangs and Violence
      • Equitable Sentencing Policies

   6. Shielding U.S. Borders from the Drug Threat
      • Trafficking Across the Southwest Border
      • Organizing for Success
      • Border Coordination Initiative
      • Port and Border Security Initiative
      • Working with the Private Sector to Keep Drugs Out of America
      • Harnessing Technology
      • Review of Counterdrug Intelligence Architecture

   7. Reducing the Supply of Illegal Drugs
      • Coordinated Interdiction Operations
      • Transit Zone Operations
      • Breaking Cocaine Sources of Supply
      • Breaking Heroin Sources of Supply
      • Countering the Spread of Methamphetamine
      • Reducing Domestic Marijuana Cultivation

   8. International Drug Control Cooperation
      • The International Anti-Drug Consensus
      • Promoting International Demand Reduction
      • Supporting Democracy and Human Rights
      • Drug Control in the Western Hemisphere
      • Bilateral Cooperation with Mexico
      • Mexico/Central American Initiative
      • Caribbean Violent Crime and Regional Interdiction Initiative
      • Targeting International Drug Trafficking Organizations
      • Following the Money
      • Controlling Precursor Chemicals
      • Reducing Corruption

5. The National Drug Control Budget
   • Spending by Department
   • Major Increases in FY 2000
   • Spending by Strategy Goal
   • Federal Funding Priorities: FY 2000-FY 2004

6. Consultation
   • Consultation with Congress
   • Consultation with National Drug-Control Program Agencies
   • Consultation with State and Local Officials
   • Consultation with Private Citizens and Organizations
   • Consultation with Representatives of Foreign Governments and International Organizations
   • Publications
   • Conferences and Meetings
   • Non-Governmental Organizations

Appendix: Drug-Related Data

• List of Tables

Glossary: Abbreviations and Acronyms