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(Testimony, 10/05/93, GAO/T-GGD-94-7).
Although the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has reported a drop in casual drug use, no indication exists that progress has been made on the second front of the drug war--the fight against hard-core drug use. ONDCP, if reauthorized, must do a better job of assessing progress being made under the national drug control strategies. Also, ONDCP and the federal drug control agencies need to cooperate more to develop, assess, and coordinate national drug control policy. In particular, ONDCP and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have had major disagreements over the collection of drug data, and ONDCP has threatened to withhold clearance of drug surveys to obtain HHS compliance with ONDCP requests--a move that GAO considers inappropriate. The three-tiered budget review and certification process envisioned by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 has proven impractical. Because of staff constraints and other factors, ONDCP has limited its reviews mainly to agency budgets and has only selectively certified program-level budgets. The Pentagon submits its drug budget to ONDCP but does not provide a breakdown of separate "agency" drug budgets, making budget comparisons among agencies difficult. Because of the continuing need for a central planning agency to lead and coordinate the nation's drug control efforts, GAO concludes that ONDCP should be reauthorized. --------------------------- Indexing Terms ----------------------------- REPORTNUM: T-GGD-94-7 TITLE: Drug Control: Reauthorization of the Office of National Drug Control Policy DATE: 10/05/93 SUBJECT: Drug abuse National policies Interagency relations Law enforcement Drug trafficking Narcotics Budget administration Intelligence gathering operations Controlled substances Data collection operations IDENTIFIER: National Drug Control Strategy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We regret that electronic text of GAO Testimony is not available at this time. See the GAO FAQ - Section 2.0 for printed copy ordering information. The FAQ is automatically retrieved with all WAIS search results or can be obtained by sending e-mail to: info@www.gao.gov