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  • Thumbnail for Office of National Drug Control Policy
    National Drug Control Budget proposed by the Obama administration devoted significant new resources to the prevention and treatment of drug abuse. These...
    29 KB (2,903 words) - 20:41, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Substance abuse prevention
    Substance abuse prevention, also known as drug abuse prevention, is a process that attempts to prevent the onset of substance use or limit the development...
    30 KB (3,619 words) - 11:25, 11 February 2024
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    Nations Office at Vienna, adopting the current name in 2002. The agency's focus is the trafficking and abuse of illicit drugs, crime prevention and criminal...
    25 KB (2,641 words) - 00:09, 20 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Controlled Substances Act
    the 91st United States Congress as Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 and signed into law by President Richard...
    79 KB (9,247 words) - 06:21, 17 June 2024
  • Jerome Jaffe (category Directors of the Office of National Drug Control Policy)
    President Nixon, Jerome Jaffe was the chief of the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP), an executive agency created by President...
    4 KB (348 words) - 00:36, 6 August 2023
  • Operation Golden Flow (category Drug testing)
    1971, Nixon declared a war on drugs, and announces the creation of the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP), and in September 1971...
    6 KB (755 words) - 01:00, 4 June 2024
  • Project. "Remarks on Signing Executive Order 12368, Concerning Federal Drug Abuse Policy Functions", Jun 24, 1982. "Appointment of Carlton E. Turner", Ronald...
    106 KB (5,750 words) - 19:02, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Substance abuse
    Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, is the use of a drug in amounts or by methods that are harmful to the individual or others. It is a form of...
    99 KB (10,180 words) - 20:42, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for War on drugs
    a special message to Congress on "Drug Abuse Prevention and Control", which included text about devoting more federal resources to the "prevention of...
    237 KB (25,928 words) - 14:41, 25 July 2024
  • drugs. The demand front referred to enforcement and rehabilitation; Nixon proposed the creation of the Special Action Office of Drug Abuse Prevention...
    87 KB (11,345 words) - 18:52, 5 June 2024
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    Sammy Davis Jr. (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    drug abuse rehabilitation programs and talk to and entertain the troops. He did this as a representative from President Nixon's Special Action Office...
    79 KB (8,059 words) - 16:58, 27 July 2024
  • first Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse from 1973 to 1978 and was the second White House Drug Czar from 1973 to 1977 under presidents Richard...
    6 KB (658 words) - 03:56, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Drug overdose
    injection drug users and other opioid drug users decreases the risk of death from overdose. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates...
    28 KB (2,682 words) - 05:33, 19 June 2024
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    considered recreational drugs, since they are used for pleasure rather than medicinal purposes. All drugs can have potential side effects. Abuse of several psychoactive...
    33 KB (3,391 words) - 17:06, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Child abuse
    United States provides funding for child-abuse prevention is through Community-Based Grants for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (CBCAP). An investigation...
    208 KB (22,786 words) - 11:48, 23 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stefan Halper
    career in 1971 as a Special Assistant to the Director, Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention, part of the executive office of the president, serving...
    28 KB (2,954 words) - 23:56, 17 July 2024
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    Institute on Drug Abuse. 13 July 2020. Retrieved 23 December 2021. Plant, MA (September 1980). Marsden, J (ed.). "Drugtaking and prevention: the implications...
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    drugs. As a result, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD), the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE); approximately 600 Special Agents...
    83 KB (8,418 words) - 16:25, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Opioid epidemic in the United States
    Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Drug Overdose Deaths Archived September 20, 2019, at the Wayback Machine. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National...
    248 KB (25,657 words) - 23:02, 28 July 2024
  • of suspicious child abuse. Legal action began to become more prevalent in the 1970s with the enactment of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act in...
    174 KB (19,094 words) - 18:33, 24 July 2024
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