National Drug Control Strategy, 2004

Publication Date: March 2004

Publisher: Office of National Drug Control Policy

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Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: drug; control

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Two years ago, the President's first National Drug Control Strategy reported the unsettling news that for the sixth straight year, more than 50 percent of 12th graders had used an illegal drug at least once by graduation. In his 2002 State of the Union address, the President set a national goal of reducing youth drug use by 10 percent within two years. It was an ambitious goal, and to many it seemed improbable in light of the string of serial increases that preceded it. Yet that goal has been met.