Drug Czar PresentationBy: Michelle Eastwood-Sell

Cost of War

• A record 15.5 million has been requested for:• Police• Military• Border Patrol Agents

Front line battles for the war on drugs: drug trafficking and drug seizures

Federal Interagency Task Force for Drug Endangered Children (2010)

Statistic

• 2002-2007: 2.1 million children lived with a drug dependent parent

• 40%-80% of families in the welfare system have substance abuse issues

• In 2003, 60% of people in rehabilitation were parents, of that 60%, 27% had a child removed from the home

Federal Interagency Task Force for Drug Endangered Children (2010)

Strengthen Efforts to Prevent Drug Use in Communities

• Community focus on youths• Providing important information on the effects of drugs• Mentoring programs• Expanding drug research

(Kerlikowske, 2010)

Break the Cycle of Drug Use, Crime, Delinquency,

and Incarceration

• Reducing drug availability• Partnership between law enforcement and community

members to reduce gang and drug activity• Alternatives to incarceration such as rehabilitation• Re-entry programs• Drug screening

(Kerlikowske, 2010)

Disrupt Domestic Drug Trafficking and Production

• Maximize federal support• Assist tribal authorities• Southwest Border Counter narcotics Strategy• Disrupt counterintelligence for drug trafficking• Disrupt criminal distribution• Ending the production of narcotics

(Kerlikowske, 2010)

Strengthen International Partnerships

• Joint counter drug law enforcement• Alternative livelihoods for coca and opium farmers• Education

(Kerlikowske, 2010)

References

• © MMX, The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.• Federal Interagency Task Force for Drug Endangered

Children (2010)• Kerlikowske, G. Office of National Drug Control Policy,

(2010). National drug control strategy. Washimngton, DC: Government Printing Office.