Parents are a critical part of prevention efforts. Most parents of young children spend a significant part of their day at work.

Influencing youth attitudes toward drugs is an important part of preventing drug use. Because the current media environment of youth includes pro-drug content that normalizes drug use,

Parents can play a key role in preventing drug and alcohol use and abuse because they are the first and most important continuing influence on the intentions and behaviors of children and adolescents.

Science is a critical ally in efforts to prevent youth substance use, yet scientific work is not always precisely aligned with the threats communities face.

During the Strategy consultation process, many law enforcement professionals indicated that information on the effectiveness of various prevention strategies and programs is not easily available.

Just as increased national and bi-national collaboration can improve interdiction, intelligence, and enforcement efforts along the United States-Mexico border, an increased and more coordinated emphasis on substance abuse prevention will benefit both countries in border regions.

Much greater efforts are required by Federal and local agencies to focus on the serious drugged driving threat, but these efforts must be built on a strong foundation of accurate data.

As with drunk driving, visible enhanced enforcement has a powerful preventive effect. The Drug Evaluation and Classification Program is a standardized, systematic method

Screening for substance use should become more broadly implemented in the health care system.

Unfortunately, a majority of physicians and other health care providers have not been trained and do not feel adequately prepared to provide care for substance use disorders.

Prescription of opioids is an increasing challenge for clinicians, who have to weigh the substantial pain relief these medications can provide against the potential for dependence, abuse, and diversion.

The family medicine cabinet is increasingly a source of drugs that are abused (e.g., the pain pill prescription that was never finished, the tranquilizers that are used occasionally).

Proper and safe prescribing of medications rests on a triangle of responsibility comprising the patient, the prescriber, and the pharmacist.

The Community Health Centers (CHCs) supported by HRSA provide care to more than 16 million low-income Americans at more than 8,000 sites around the country.

The VA has made major advances in the care of veterans who have substance use disorders, including expanded addiction treatment, primary care-based screening and intervention, path-breaking research on psychosocial and medication-based treatments, and integration of addiction treatment-based information and services into the broader health care system.

On December 16, 2009, President Obama signed into law an end to the longstanding ban on most Federal funding for needle exchange programs.

Some States and Federal systems (e.g., VA) have had significant success in building financial incentives into public health care systems.

Overdoses, particularly from opiates, are a growing national crisis, and health care providers need to be able to recognize and intervene in overdose emergencies.

Access to Recovery (ATR) is an innovative program that provides drug-addicted individuals vouchers with which they can purchase clinical treatment and recovery support services, including transitional housing, child care, transportation to work or to recovery mutual help group meetings, peer counseling, and aids to employment restoration (e.g., the purchase of a pair of work boots).

Recovery support programs provide less formal, more enduring support than the professional treatment system, which makes them highly appealing to people in recovery.

In the past decade, numerous communities have taken a stand to stop open-air drug markets, not by making mass arrests, but rather by implementing powerful, positive, restorative justice techniques.

The Obama Administration is committed to enhancing Federal efforts to study promising drug enforcement initiatives, identifying the elements that enable these initiatives to have a positive and sustained impact, and sharing these best practices with communities throughout the country.

In recognition of the links between substance use and crime, substance abuse treatment for offenders has been part of the National Drug Control Strategy for many years as a combined effort to reduce threats to both public health and public safety.

In the 1980s, as crack-cocaine markets were causing considerable damage to communities throughout the United States, Congress passed legislation mandating minimum sentences of 5 years in prison for persons trafficking in 5 grams of crack-cocaine or 500 grams of powder cocaine.

ONDCP will work with the Women and Trauma Federal Partners’ Committee to support interventions

Every year, approximately 40,000 Veterans are released from incarceration.

Offenders whose criminal behavior is driven primarily by substance abuse represent the “low-hanging fruit” among recidivists.

Years of research have demonstrated that heavy users, a minority of the drug using population, consume a disproportionately large share of illegal drugs.

In 2011, BOP will work with BJA and NIC to ensure evidence-based treatment services are provided to Federal prisoners.

Reentry courts are designed to extend the specific, proven practices of drug courts to the management of drug-related offenders being released from incarceration back into the community from a correctional setting.

DOL’s adult Reintegration of Ex-Offenders (RExO) program assists those leaving prison to reenter society by funding efforts to improve work readiness, education, and self-sustaining employment opportunities.

Some public and private partnerships are working to better respond to drug and mental health problems among the juvenile justice population.

Although progress has been made since September 11, 2001, in enhancing information sharing, there is much more to be done. .

Drug traffickers employ our Nation’s roads and highways to move large amounts of drugs, currency, and weapons, both northbound and southbound.

Drug trends can vary considerably from state to state or city to city. However, a national strategic analysis focusing on the impact of the drug trade can provide a clear and helpful guide in setting the Nation’s agenda among many competing priorities.

Drug detection, monitoring, interdiction, and apprehension are divided into Source, Transit, and Arrival Zones.

The southwest border is a major focus of drug policy, but there are also considerable challenges on the northern border.

Disrupt Surveillance Operations of Drug-Trafficking Organization(s)(DTO): Drug traffickers dedicate significant resources to monitor enforcement operations of United States agencies.

Item 5.3.B has been combined with item 5.1.D.

Marijuana trafficking is prevalent across the Nation, with both domestic and foreign sources of supply. California, Hawaii, Kentucky, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, and West Virginia are considered the top seven (M7) states for marijuana cultivation.

Bulk seizures of currency, regardless of who makes the seizure or where it is made, should be treated, to the extent allowable by law, as drugs or other contraband are treated.

The Drug Endangered Children (DEC) national movement emerged as a multidisciplinary response to children exposed to drug use, trafficking, and/or narcotics manufacturing and who are often victims of physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse; neglect; and drug-related violence.

The United States will actively cooperate with those partner nations that are most directly victimized by drug production that flows toward the United States, that are most at risk from international drug-trafficking organizations, and that are committed to counterdrug efforts and the rule of law.

Through partnership with chemical-producing countries such as China and India and through the initiatives of the INCB and the United Nations’ Commission on Narcotic drugs (CND), significant progress has been made in addressing diversion of chemicals used to produce methamphetamine and other drugs.

The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is the largest effort by any nation in history to prevent and treat a single disease.

Drug-trafficking organizations based largely in Mexico, but operating throughout the Western Hemisphere, have garnered huge financial returns from the illicit drug trade.

The United States has long cooperated with Colombia and Peru on interdiction, eradication, and alternative development programs, while helping to build critical capabilities within the security forces required to exercise state control in remote, under-governed areas where coca and poppy are cultivated and processed.

Drug-consuming nations face a responsibility to offer support and collaboration to nations struggling with challenges related to drug production and trafficking.

Drug-trafficking organizations have broadened their operational activities to a wide array of Western Hemisphere countries.

ODNI, DOJ, and DHS will convene all interagency intelligence organizations to marshal their expertise on drug-trafficking organizations, their vulnerabilities, and mechanisms to attack these vulnerabilities.

Profits are what drive the illegal drug trade and what tie drug trafficking to other transnational threats, including international organized crime and terrorism.

DAWN provides national and local-area estimates of drug-related emergency department visits, and drug-related mortality.

DASIS consists of two data sets: the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) and the National Survey on Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS).

Individuals who are arrested and/or convicted of crimes demonstrate substantially higher rates of drug use—especially chronic or hardcore use—than the general population.

Tabulation of drug seizures is the foundation for reporting statistics on the trends, activities, and patterns related to drug supply reduction policy.

The United States Government produces annual estimates of illicit crop cultivation and illicit drug production in key source countries around the world in an effort to frame the threat of illicit drugs to the United States and its allies.