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Use of Drugs by Teens Spiked During Clinton Years
Posted by FoM on January 04, 2001 at 06:44:06 PT
Editorial
Source: San Francisco Chronicle 
Youth drug use in America increased sharply during the eight years of the Clinton administration, and the number of drug-related episodes in emergency rooms are now at historic highs, according to figures in a national report on drug policy to be released today. The sobering news comes during a time when the federal government committed huge amounts of new money recently to fight the problem, increasing funding to $19.2 billion this year from $13.4 billion in 1996, an average increase of more than $1 billion a year. 
But Barry R. McCaffrey, director of the Office of the National Drug Control Policy, will argue in a White House news conference that the drug problem among youths in particular is getting better. To support his position, he will cite a 21 percent decrease in use from 1997 to 1999, perhaps the first signs from a widely praised anti-drug media campaign. Still, drug use among those aged 12-17 was exactly the same in 1999 as it was in 1996, when McCaffrey became drug czar: in both years, 9 percent of those youths surveyed acknowledged using illegal drugs sometime during the previous month, according to the national survey. And in 1993, when Clinton first took office, only 5.7 percent of teens said they used illegal drugs. "We've got a long ways to go," said Joseph Califano, chairman and president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University and a former secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA)Published: Thursday, January 4, 2001 Copyright: 2001 San Francisco ChronicleAddress: 901 Mission St., San Francisco CA 94103Contact: letters sfchronicle.comWebsite: http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/Forum: http://www.sfgate.com/conferences/Feedback: http://www.sfgate.com/select.feedback.htmlRelated Article:McCaffrey Advocates Prevention, Treatment http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread8191.shtml
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Comment #3 posted by FoM on January 04, 2001 at 08:24:53 PT
John Donnelly 
Hi everyone, I believe the author is John Donnelly. I just posted a more detailed article that appears the same. Here it is. US Report Details Losses in Drug Fight http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread8196.shtml
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Comment #2 posted by dddd on January 04, 2001 at 08:05:30 PT
look ma,,,no author
 My favorite.Another article that no one wants to take credit for.Any time you have an article where the spineless author is too ashamed to leave their name,you can be sure it was put there by force.Do you think just anybody could submit an article with no author?...Any time you submit an editorial or a comment to a paper,you are REQUIRED to give your name and address.I guess they made an exception for this article.Hmmm,,I wonder where it originated? This is especially fake;>"To support his position, he will cite a 21 percent decrease in use from 1997 to 1999, perhaps the first signs from a widely praised anti-drug media campaign.""widely praised"??????..........Good Grief! .......dddd
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Comment #1 posted by ripper on January 04, 2001 at 07:49:44 PT
Where's the beef?
 How can they spend that much money and get nothing done.Thats the real cancer sucking the life blood from America. Big money = Big crime.
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