Drug Control

Paper Summary:

This paper presents a negative and a positive aspect of the 2004 National Drug Control Strategy with statistics and examples to support the writer's reasoning. The negative addressed from this policy is that the statistics that used are from surveys from only one source while other sources contradict the information. The positive that is addressed from this policy is the strategy of healing America's drug users by providing treatment to drug addicts who cannot afford such services and the drug courts that seek alternatives for treating the drug user's addictions rather than incarceration.

Outline:
A Negative from the President's Policy
A Positive from the President's Policy
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"The Office of National Drug Control Policy's National Drug Control Strategy only uses data from the Monitoring the Future (MTF) to measure illicit drug use of 8th, 10th, and 12th graders only during the past 30 days. The Monitoring the Future survey of the University of Michigan began surveying 12th graders since 1975 and 8th and 10th graders since 1991 on behaviors and attitudes such as drugs, alcohol, and tobacco (MTF, 2007). The surveys from MTF are the sole means from which the National Drug Control Strategy report evaluates its education policies, programs, and design. The National Drug Control Policy should not base their strategy on using surveys, let alone surveys from one institute. Surveys can be inaccurate for many reasons. Students may be unwilling to report using illegal drugs. The National Research Council concluded in 2001 that, "inaccurate response is particularly acute in surveys of drug abuse, since illegal drug use is a stigmatized behavior and respondents are reluctant to report it accurately" (Males, 2005)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Males, M. (2005). Do school drug use surveys mean anything. Retrieved August 11, 2007, from: http://home.earthlink.net/~mmales/jschlth.htm
• MTF, (2007). Monitoring the future. Retrieved August 11, 2007, from: http://monitoringthefuture.org/
• National Families in Action, (2002). Arizona proposition 200. Retrieved August 11, 2007, from:http://www.nationalfamilies.org/guide/arizona200-full.html
• National Institute on Drug Abuse, (2007). About NIDA. Retrieved August 11, 2007, from:http://www.nida.nih.gov/About/AboutNIDA.html
• Office of National Drug Control Policy, (2003). The President's national drug control strategy. Retrieved August 11, 2007, from: http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/policy/ndcs03/intro.html

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