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(References in brackets [ ] are to title 21, United States Code)

§1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the "Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act".

Sec.

TITLE I-FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF POLICY;
DEFINITIONS; TERMINATION

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§ 101. [1101] Congressional findings.

The Congress makes the following findings:

(1) Drug abuse is rapidly increasing in the United States and now afflicts urban, suburban, and rural areas of the Nation. (2) Drug abuse seriously impairs individual, as well as societal, health and well-being.

(3) Drug abuse, especially heroin addiction, substantially contributes to crime.

(4) The adverse impact of drug abuse inflicts increasing pain and hardship on individuals, families, and communities and undermines our institutions.

(5) Too little is known about drug abuse, especially the causes, and ways to treat and prevent drug abuse.

(6) The success of Federal drug abuse programs and activities requires a recognition that education, treatment, rehabilitation, research, training, and law enforcement efforts are interrelated.

(7) 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.

(8) Control of drug abuse requires the development of a comprehensive, coordinated long-term Federal strategy that encompasses both effective law enforcement against illegal drug traffic and effective health programs to rehabilitate victims of drug abuse.

(9) The increasing rate of drug abuse constitutes a serious and continuing threat to national health and welfare, requiring an immediate and effective response on the part of the Federal Government.

(10) Although the Congress observed a significant apparent reduction in the rate of increase of drug abuse during the

three-year period subsequent to the date of enactment of this Act, and in certain areas of the country apparent temporary reductions in its incidence, the increase and spread of heroin consumption since 1974, and the continuing abuse of other dangerous drugs, clearly indicate the need for effective, ongoing, and highly visible Federal leadership in the formation and execution of a comprehensive, coordinated drug abuse policy.

(11) Shifts in the usage of various drugs and in the Nation's demographic composition require a Federal strategy to adjust the focus of drug abuse programs to meet new needs and priorities on a cost-effective basis.

(12) The growing extent of drug abuse indicates an urgent need for prevention and intervention programs designed to reach the general population and members of high risk populations such as youth, women, and the elderly.

(13) Effective control of drug abuse requires high-level coordination of Federal international and domestic activities relating to both supply of, and demand for, commonly abused drugs.

(14) Local governments with high concentrations of drug abuse should be actively involved in the planning and coordination of efforts to combat drug abuse.

§102. [1102] Declaration of national policy.

The Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States and the purpose of this Act to focus the comprehensive resources of the Federal Government and bring them to bear on drug abuse with the objective of significantly reducing the incidence, as well as the social and personal costs, of drug abuse in the United States, and to develop and assure the implementation of a comprehensive, coordinated, long-term Federal strategy to combat drug abuse. To reach these goals, the Congress further declares that it is the policy of the United States and the purpose of this Act to meet the problems of drug abuse through

(1) comprehensive Federal, State, and local planning for, and effective use of, Federal assistance to States and to communitybased programs to meet the urgent needs of special populations, in coordination with all other governmental and nongovernmental sources of assistance;

(2) the development and support of community-based prevention programs;

(3) the development and encouragement of effective occupational prevention and treatment programs within the Government and in cooperation with the private sector; and

(4) increased Federal commitment to research into the behavioral and biomedical etiology of, the treatment of, and the mental and physical health and social and economic consequences of, drug abuse.

§ 103. [1103] Definitions.

(a) The definitions set forth in this section apply for the purposes of this Act.

(b) The term "drug abuse prevention function" means any program or activity relating to drug abuse education or training (including preventive efforts directed to individuals who are not users

of drugs and to individuals who are marginal users of drugs), treatment, rehabilitation, or research, and includes any such function even when performed by an organization whose primary mission is in the field of drug traffic prevention functions, or is unrelated to drugs. The term does not include any function defined in subsection (c) as a "drug traffic prevention function".

(c) The term "drug traffic prevention function" means

(1) the conduct of formal or informal diplomatic or international negotiations at any level, whether with foreign governments, other foreign governmental or nongovernmental persons or organizations of any kind, or any international organization of any kind, relating to traffic (whether licit or illicit) in drugs subject to abuse, or any measures to control or curb such traffic; or

(2) any of the following law enforcement activities or proceedings:

(A) the investigation and prosecution of drug offenses; (B) the impanelment of grand juries;

(C) programs or activities involving international narcotics control; and

(D) the detection and suppression of illicit drug supplies. (d) The term "drug abuse function" means any function described in subsection (b) or (c) of this section, or both.

TITLE II-OFFICE OF DRUG ABUSE POLICY

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201. Concentration of Federal effort.

202. Designated drug representative.

203. Officers and employees.

204. Acceptance of uncompensated services.

205. Notice relating to the control of dangerous drugs. 206. Statutory authority unaffected.

207. Annual report.

§201. [1111] Concentration of Federal effort.

(a) The President shall establish a system for developing recommendations with respect to policies for, objectives of, and establishment of priorities for, Federal drug abuse functions and shall coordinate the performance of such functions by Federal departments and agencies. Recommendations under this subsection shall include recommendations for changes in the organization, management, and personnel of Federal departments and agencies performing drug abuse functions in order to implement the policies, priorities, and objectives recommended under this subsection.

(b) To carry out subsection (a), the President shall

(1) review the regulations guidelines, requirements, criteria, and procedures of Federal departments and agencies applicable to the performance of drug abuse functions;

(2) conduct, or provide for, evaluations of (A) the performance of drug abuse functions by Federal departments and agencies, and (B) the results achieved by such departments and agencies in the performance of such functions; and

(3) seek to assure the Federal departments and agencies, in the performance of drug abuse functions, construe drug abuse as a health problem requiring treatment and rehabilitation through a broad range of community health and social services.

(c) Federal departments and agencies engaged in drug abuse functions shall submit to the President such information and reports as may reasonably be required to carry out the purposes of this title.

§ 202. [1112] Designated drug representative.

(a) The President shall designate a single officer or employee of the United States to direct the activities required by this title. The location of such designee in the Executive Office of the President or elsewhere shall not be construed as affecting access by the Congress or committees of either House (1) to information, documents, and studies in the possession of, or conducted by or at the direction of, such designee, or (2) to personnel involved in carrying out activities under this title.

(b) The President may direct the officer or employee designated under subsection (a) of this section to represent the Government of the United States in discussions and negotiations relating to drug abuse functions.

§ 203. [1113] Officers and employees.

In carrying out this title, the President may employ and prescribe the functions of such officers and employees, including attor

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