Bureau of Drug Abuse

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FDA Bureau of Drug Abuse Control and the Treasury Department s Bureau of Narcotics are transferred to the Department of Justice to form the Bureau... 

The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare s Bureau of Drug Abuse Control was responsible for the control of dangerous drugs, including depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens, such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). 

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation s Crime in the United States report, during 2003 there were 137,658 juveniles arrested by law enforcement agencies for drug abuse violations. 

Source UNODC Annual Reports Questionnaires data, National Household Surveys submitted to UNODC, United States Department of State (Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs) International Narcotics Control Strategy Report law enforcement reports, reports from epidemiological networks, UNODC Global Assessment Programme on Drug Abuse (GAP)... 

United States Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) is formed to coordinate efforts against abused drugs. 

Marijuana users will find that many employers weed out substance abusers, because they are much more likely to be absent or have on-the-job accidents. In 1996, about a third of all potential hires were screened for drug use. At major corporations, the figure was 81%, and in the top-ranked Fortune 200 companies, it rose to 98%. Standards at many federal agencies are even more stringent The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will disqualify applicants who had used marijuana within the past three years or a total of 15 times altogether. 

With the coincidental retirement in 1962 of Commissioner Anslinger and the Supreme Court s decision that addiction was a disease, and with the arrival of President Kennedy s New Frontier, the Bureau s approach was becoming anachronistic. The prevailing mood of the day encouraged reduced penalties, more medical treatment, possible development of maintenance clinics, and a reevaluation of drug laws. In 1962 a White House Panel on Narcotic and Drug Abuse reported that It is the opinion of the Panel that the hazards of marijuana per se have been exaggerated and... 

When Harry J. Anslinger became the commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics, he was already known for his very strong feelings about drug abuse. 

Finally, school drop-out rate may have an indirect relationship to youth drug use since young people who abuse drugs are more likely to drop out of school than those who do not. In the 2004 NDCS report, there is a table of annual drop-out rates compiled by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. However, these data seem a bit odd. The drop-out rate in 1996 is reported to be 4.7 percent and never varies more than 4 percent until 2002 (the last date reported), when it drops to 3.3 percent. The U.S. Department of Education has compiled data on the percentage of young adults age 16 to 24 who are not enrolled in a high school program and who have not obtained a diploma or equivalency certificate. These data show that the drop-out tate went from 11.1 percent in 1996 to 10.5 percent in 2002 (last year data is available). This is a decrease of 5.4 percent. 

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2003). Resutts from the 2002 Nationai Survey on Drug Use and Heaith Detaiied Tabies. Table 1.1B. (Office of Applied Studies, Department of Health and Human Services). Rockville, MD. http //www.samhsa.gov/oas/nhsda/ 2k2nsduh/Sect1 peTabs1to18.pdf , The number of Americans who have used marijuana in the last year (25,755,000) is greater than the entire population of Texas (20,851,820). (Ibid. And United States Census Bureau Report for 2000. Summary File 4. http //www.census.gov/)... 

Yukiko, M. 1998. Manual for Identification of Abused Drugs, 2nd Edition, Pharmaceutical and Medical Safety Bureau, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Japan. 

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