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...portrayed his moves as a grand departure from the drug wars of previous Administrations. Gone, though, is Clinton's promise to provide addicts with "treatment on demand" and his pledge to spend more money on education and prevention than on law enforcement. If approved by Congress, Clinton's overall antidrug budget will climb about $1 billion, but even after including the dubious allocation of $285 million for community policing as a "prevention and treatment" expense, the ratio split will still favor enforcement 59% to 41% -- down only $ slightly from George Bush's emphasis, which had the ratio...
...nohow; not now, not ever," is bad enough. Worse is his silent acceptance of policies that shortchange drug treatment, an abandonment of his pledge to invert the ratio of funds spent on drug interdiction vs. treatment, a split that continues to allocate $13.1 billion of federal antidrug money in favor of law enforcement by more than 2 to 1. It's true that "druggies don't vote," as a senior Administration official says, and also that the President is fearful of appearing soft on crime, but he had it right during the campaign: drug treatment does...
...commit 15 times as many robberies and 20 times as many burglaries as criminals not on drugs. Approximately 70% of the nation's 1.4 million prisoners have drug problems, but only 1% of federal inmates and about 15% of state prisoners receive adequate treatment. Yet well- structured, prison-based antidrug programs have produced remarkable results. The rearrest rate for those who endure yearlong therapeutic programs is about one-third the rate for those who don't participate. And in-prison treatment is a bargain: it costs $28,000 a year to house one inmate, but adding comprehensive drug treatment costs...
...investigated a key meeting in December 1989, when CIA officer Mark McFarlin and his boss Jim Campbell, the CIA station chief in Venezuela, met with Annabelle Grimm, attache of the DEA in Caracas. McFarlin, who was assigned to coordinate counternarcotics operations with Guillen's National Guard antidrug unit, wanted Grimm's assistance. He asked her to allow hundreds of pounds of cocaine to be shipped to the U.S. through Venezuela. And he asked that the DEA make sure the contraband would not be interdicted -- in other words, "let the dope walk...
...from 6.2%) smoked marijuana or hashish, and 2.1% (up from 1.7%) of these 13-year-olds took LSD. The diminution of drug taking among older teenagers (the percentage of 12th- graders who had smoked marijuana, for example, fell from 23.9% to 21.9%) suggested that while the relentless antidrug line in schools and on TV may be having an impact, many younger kids seem not to be getting the message...