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Deanna's story was the most unusual incident in a week of intensifying antidrug activity around the country. Not since the early days of the temperance movement, when Carry Nation took ax in hand and went about hacking up saloons, has the U.S. public seemed so determined to do something about substance abuse. There were church vigils and street-corner rallies, marches through dope-infested neighborhoods, and TV spots filmed to urge young people to resist the temptation to experiment with drugs. Showing the Administration's support for drug testing, the President and his Cabinet submitted to urinalysis...
...Administration unveiled its ambitious "Operation Alliance," designed to crack down on drug trafficking and dealing, other antidrug crusaders were touting education and treatment as the key weapons in the drug war. In the Baltimore area, officials announced plans for expanded drug- awareness programs in local schools and a "crack" hot line to aid users of the new, highly potent form of cocaine...
...than 600 in 1985.White House polls show that the public is more worried about drugs than about such matters as the federal budget deficit and arms control. Congressmen, particularly Democrats trying to find an election issue for this fall, are tripping all over one another to introduce free-spending antidrug legislation. The President's wife has long been in the forefront of the drug war with a "Just Say No" campaign that she has doggedly propagated to the nation's youth...
Expanded public awareness. This is the heart of Reagan's program, and his personal involvement is the first step. "We must make drug use the top item in the national dialogue," Reagan told a convention of drug-prevention activists last week in Virginia. It was his third antidrug speech in six days...
Reagan insisted to skeptical reporters at the White House that his program "isn't just rhetoric alone. We know that there's going to be a cost, and we're going to have to find that money." White House officials are boosting this year's $2.1 billion total antidrug budget by about $500 million next year...