I. Drug-Control Strategy: An Overview
Goals of the 1999 Strategy
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Goal 1: | Educate and enable America's youth to reject illegal drugs as well as alcohol and tobacco. |
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Goal 2: | Increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence. |
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Goal 3: | Reduce health and social costs to the public of illegal drug use. |
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Goal 4: | Shield America's air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat. |
| Goal 5: | Break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply. |
The five goals and thirty-one objectives* reflect the need for prevention and education to protect all Americans, especially children, from the perils of drugs; treatment to help the chemically dependent; law enforcement to bring traffickers and other drug offenders to justice; interdiction to reduce the flow of drugs into our nation; international cooperation to confront drug cultivation, production, trafficking, and use; and research to provide a foundation based on science.
* The goals and objectives are displayed in an insert.
