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Title: | US IA: A Look At Bush's Drug Plan |
Published On: | 2000-10-07 |
Source: | Quad-City Times (IA) |
Fetched On: | 2008-09-03 06:25:44 |
A LOOK AT BUSH'S DRUG PLAN
Here's a closer look at a few of the items in Texas Gov. George W. Bush's
drug policy plan:
Help countries such as Bolivia, Colombia and Peru promote crop substitutes,
providing an additional $15 million over five years.
Improve intelligence and surveillance to catch drug smugglers before they
reach U.S. borders. Continue working with Mexico on drug interdiction.
Increase funding for interdiction by $1 billion over five years, and
counter-drug intelligence by $50 million over five years.
Hire more border enforcement officers and focus a "reformed" Immigration
and Naturalization Service on the job of defending the borders.
Create a Parents Drug Corps, funded with $25 million for nonprofit agencies
or groups that educate parents about drug prevention.
Increase funding for the Safe and Drug-free Schools Program by $100 million
over five years.
Award $25 million in grants over five years to nonprofit groups that work
with small businesses to create drug prevention programs.
Provide $350 million over five years in grants to "double" the
effectiveness of community anti-drug coalitions.
Expand anti-gang programs modeled after the Boston Gun Project, which
targets an entire gang through arrests, parole revocations and other
tactics. Go from 27 to 100 cities at a cost of $25 million over five years.
Do a state-by-state assessment to see where drug treatment is lacking;
increase federal funding by $1 billion to meet the needs.
Allow charities and community drug treatment organizations to receive
federal funds without "unnecessary bureaucratic oversight." Provide $250
million over five years in competitive grants to residential substance
abuse programs for teen-agers.
Ensure that federal prisons are drug-free, provide more resources for drug
prevention, testing and enforcement and require inmates and parolees to
take regular drug tests.
Increase funding by $50 million over five years for drug courts that allow
dismissed or reduced sentences in exchange for court-monitored drug treatment.
Launch a federal methamphetamine initiative and fully fund the Drug
Enforcement Administration's meth lab cleanup program.
Here's a closer look at a few of the items in Texas Gov. George W. Bush's
drug policy plan:
Help countries such as Bolivia, Colombia and Peru promote crop substitutes,
providing an additional $15 million over five years.
Improve intelligence and surveillance to catch drug smugglers before they
reach U.S. borders. Continue working with Mexico on drug interdiction.
Increase funding for interdiction by $1 billion over five years, and
counter-drug intelligence by $50 million over five years.
Hire more border enforcement officers and focus a "reformed" Immigration
and Naturalization Service on the job of defending the borders.
Create a Parents Drug Corps, funded with $25 million for nonprofit agencies
or groups that educate parents about drug prevention.
Increase funding for the Safe and Drug-free Schools Program by $100 million
over five years.
Award $25 million in grants over five years to nonprofit groups that work
with small businesses to create drug prevention programs.
Provide $350 million over five years in grants to "double" the
effectiveness of community anti-drug coalitions.
Expand anti-gang programs modeled after the Boston Gun Project, which
targets an entire gang through arrests, parole revocations and other
tactics. Go from 27 to 100 cities at a cost of $25 million over five years.
Do a state-by-state assessment to see where drug treatment is lacking;
increase federal funding by $1 billion to meet the needs.
Allow charities and community drug treatment organizations to receive
federal funds without "unnecessary bureaucratic oversight." Provide $250
million over five years in competitive grants to residential substance
abuse programs for teen-agers.
Ensure that federal prisons are drug-free, provide more resources for drug
prevention, testing and enforcement and require inmates and parolees to
take regular drug tests.
Increase funding by $50 million over five years for drug courts that allow
dismissed or reduced sentences in exchange for court-monitored drug treatment.
Launch a federal methamphetamine initiative and fully fund the Drug
Enforcement Administration's meth lab cleanup program.
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