Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Legislation, 1975, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics Of..., 94-1, March 24 and 25, 1975

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Page 251 - ... the administration of the plan, or designate such agency as the sole agency for supervising the administration of the plan ; (2) contain satisfactory evidence that the State agency designated in accordance with paragraph (1) will have authority to carry out such plan in conformity with this part; (3...
Page 19 - The effectiveness of efforts by State and local governments and by the Federal Government to control and treat drug abuse in the United States has been hampered by a lack of coordination among the States, between States and localities, among the Federal Government, States and localities, and throughout the Federal establishment.
Page 143 - I am here today speaking on behalf of the National League of Cities and the United States Conference of Mayors.
Page 244 - ... treatment, rehabilitation, or research, and includes any such function even when performed by an organization whose primary mission is in the field of drug...
Page 248 - Secretary may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports; and (10) provide that the State agency will from time to time, but not less often than annually, review its State plan and submit to the Secretary any modifications thereof which it considers necessary.
Page 145 - Report prepared for the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.
Page 63 - ... order to allow the use of our favored drugs, alcohol and tobacco, we have used statutory vocabulary and social folklore to establish the fiction that they are not drugs at all. By adherence to a policy of total prohibition of the nonmedical use of psychoactive drugs, we have ignored pharmacological variations among drugs and the importance of frequency of use. method of administration, dose, and nondrug factors as determinants of risk. We have, in fact, ignored the differences in degrees of risk....
Page 91 - ICC; one was for the creation within the Executive Office of the President of "an Office for (he Oversight of Regulatory Agencies," and still another (recommendation No.
Page 23 - Financial assistance is provided to the states for planning, establishing, conducting, and coordinating projects for the development of more effective drug abuse prevention functions in the states and for evaluating the conduct of such functions.
Page 79 - We need to analyze the relationship of marihuana use and other initial drug use and subsequent drug abuse, looking not only at transitional factors, but also at the phenomenon of association, especially among multiple drug abusers. We must expand our knowledge of onset factors, particularly among young people, with special emphasis upon attitudinal studies. We need a program that attacks the many facets of drug abuse as it specifically related to business and industry.

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