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[CITE: 21USC1102]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
    CHAPTER 16--DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION, TREATMENT, AND REHABILITATION
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1102. Congressional declaration of national policy

    The Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States and 
the purpose of this chapter to focus the comprehensive resources of the 
Federal Government and bring them to bear on drug abuse with the 
objective of significantly reducing the incidence, as well as the social 
and personal costs, of drug abuse in the United States, and to develop 
and assure the implementation of a comprehensive, coordinated long-term 
Federal strategy to combat drug abuse. To reach these goals, the 
Congress further declares that it is the policy of the United States and 
the purpose of this chapter to meet the problems of drug abuse through--
        (1) comprehensive Federal, State, and local planning for, and 
    effective use of, Federal assistance to States and to community-
    based programs to meet the urgent needs of special populations, in 
    coordination with all other governmental and nongovernmental sources 
    of assistance;
        (2) the development and support of community-based prevention 
    programs;
        (3) the development and encouragement of effective occupational 
    prevention and treatment programs within the Government and in 
    cooperation with the private sector; and
        (4) increased Federal commitment to research into the behavioral 
    and biomedical etiology of, the treatment of, and the mental and 
    physical health and social and economic consequences of, drug abuse.

(Pub. L. 92-255, title I, Sec. 102, Mar. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 66; Pub. L. 
94-237, Sec. 2, Mar. 19, 1976, 90 Stat. 241; Pub. L. 96-181, Sec. 3, 
Jan. 2, 1980, 93 Stat. 1309.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original ``this Act'', 
meaning Pub. L. 92-255, Mar. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 65, as amended, known as 
the Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act, which 
comprises this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the 
Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1101 of this title and 
Tables.


                               Amendments

    1980--Pub. L. 96-181 inserted additional declarations of policy 
prescribing methods and programs by which the goals are to be reached.
    1976--Pub. L. 94-237 substituted ``objective of significantly 
reducing the incidence, as well as the social and personal costs, of 
drug abuse in the United States, and to develop and assure the 
implementation of'' for ``immediate objective of significantly reducing 
the incidence of drug abuse in the United States within the shortest 
possible period of time, and to develop''.
