| Problem | Components |
|---|---|
| Policy issue area: | Society |
| Policy issue: | Crime |
| Description: | Illegal drug use remains at a high level, causing enormous damage to society and the economy. |
| Symptoms: | There are an estimated 30 million regular drug users; rising gang and other violence in connection with trafficking; increased crime to finance the addiction; narcotics are being used to finance terrorism. |
| Causes: | Cultural influences; alienation and despair arising out of unsolved social problems and conflicts. |
| Cost of problem: | Drugs cost the nation $100 billion in lost employment, prison and criminal justice expenses, and treatment programs. |
| Solution | Components |
| Resources: | Federal, state and local governments; law enforcement agencies; business an industry. |
| Goal: | Reduce drug abuse by 10% annually. |
| Program area: | Human resources development |
| Program-remedy: | 1. Strengthen and enforce the Omnibus Drug Bill 2. Develop a coordinated attack on the drug traffic problem, using Federal, state and local government resources 3. Develop a campaign to eradicate cocaine and opium planting world-wide 4. Conduct research to identify the psychological and social roots of the drug epidemic. |
| Program-prevent: | Economic and social development under the Common Good Covenant, to reduce alienation and despair that leads to drug abuse. |
| Cost of program: | - |
| Beneficiaries: | Drug abusers and their families; business and industry. |