The Role of Demand Reduction in the National Drug Control Strategy: Thirty-ninth ReportU.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 104 pages |
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... inner city youth.23 Testimony by Thelma Brown with the Watts Health Foundation , Inc. in Los Angeles indicated that school curricula in communities of color should also reflect cultural sensitivity toward African American and Hispanic ...
... inner city youth.23 Testimony by Thelma Brown with the Watts Health Foundation , Inc. in Los Angeles indicated that school curricula in communities of color should also reflect cultural sensitivity toward African American and Hispanic ...
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... inner city . Yet NIDA data do not measure key inner city populations . Progress in the drug war should be measured by objectives , but the committee finds fault with objectives that virtually ignore the poor , urban and communities of ...
... inner city . Yet NIDA data do not measure key inner city populations . Progress in the drug war should be measured by objectives , but the committee finds fault with objectives that virtually ignore the poor , urban and communities of ...
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... inner city residents and in com- munities of color has increased . The emergence of a two - tiered drug war is having a profound impact on the poor and on minorities . Community representatives increasingly believe that the war on drugs ...
... inner city residents and in com- munities of color has increased . The emergence of a two - tiered drug war is having a profound impact on the poor and on minorities . Community representatives increasingly believe that the war on drugs ...
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... inner city nor of hard - to - reach ethnic communities . According to October 1988 Census data of 16- 24 year olds nationally , the rate of dropouts among whites was 12.7 percent , 14.9 percent for African Americans and 36 percent for ...
... inner city nor of hard - to - reach ethnic communities . According to October 1988 Census data of 16- 24 year olds nationally , the rate of dropouts among whites was 12.7 percent , 14.9 percent for African Americans and 36 percent for ...
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... inner city has not gone down but has in fact increased among hard core users . The Department of Education is implementing legislative policy on prevention programming as enacted ; the issue of funneling the bulk of prevention dollars ...
... inner city has not gone down but has in fact increased among hard core users . The Department of Education is implementing legislative policy on prevention programming as enacted ; the issue of funneling the bulk of prevention dollars ...
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ADAMHA addicts African American agencies Alcohol and Drug Anti-Drug Abuse Act April 17 Billboard advertising Center clients cocaine committee communities of color community-based comprehensive Control Strategy budget costs demand reduction Department of Education Detroit Director drug abuse drug abuse treatment Drug Control Strategy drug problems drug strategy drug treatment drug users Drug-Free effective Federal Government Fiscal Year 1990 gateway drugs grams heroin Hispanic Ibid increased individuals inner city John Conyers lack Legislation and National Medicaid ment Michael Isikoff Michael Pfleger Michigan million NASADAD National Drug Control National Security NDATUS needs NIDA Office of Substance ONDCP OSAP percent population pregnant women prevention efforts prevention programming prevention research prevention strategies seeking treatment Subcommittee on Legislation Substance Abuse Prevention substance abuse treatment target tion treat treatment facilities treatment on demand treatment programs treatment services vention waiting lists war on drugs
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Page 84 - Services (DHHS) conducts treatment-related services and research out of its three institutes, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH); and from the Office of Treatment Improvement (OTI).
Page 24 - Services (DHHS) conducts prevention-related services and research out of its three institutes, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH); and out of the Office of Substance Abuse Prevention (OSAP).
Page 47 - I established the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention within the Executive Office of the President, we gained an organization with the necessary resources, breadth, and leadership capacity to begin dealing decisively with the "demand...
Page 24 - Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration The Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA...
Page 54 - Medica id benefits; and 87 percent had no services available to pregnant women on Medicaid who were addicted to crack. Less than half of the programs that did accept pregnant women provided prenatal care and only two made provisions for patients
Page 1 - The Chairman was directed to transmit a copy to the Speaker of the House. I. INTRODUCTION...
Page 27 - IHEs to establish, expand, or enhance programs and activities for the training of counselors, social workers, psychologists, or nurses who are or will provide drug abuse prevention counseling or referral services in elementary and secondary schools.
Page 77 - NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT HAS ESTIMATED THAT EVERY YEAR 100,000 BABIES ARE BORN EXPOSED TO CRACK. PRENATAL EXPOSURE TO COCAINE CAN LEAD TO PREMATURE BIRTH, LOW BIRTHWEIGHT, BIRTH DEFECTS, AND RESPIRATORY AND NEUROLOGICAL PROBLEMS. CRACK BABIES HAVE A SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER RATE OF SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME (SIDS) THAN BABIES NOT EXPOSED PRENATALLY. WHILE EXPERTS BELIEVE THAT MANY CRACK BABIES WILL SUFFER DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, THE FULL RANGE OF LONG TERM EFFECTS OF PRENATAL COCAINE...