Drug control, annual federal

By 2003 the total annual federal budget for drug control efforts exceeded 19 billion, with many hundreds of millions of dollars more spent by state and local governments. An estimated 3.5 million Americans received some sort of treatment for drug abuse during the year preceding the 2002 survey. Of these, about 2.2 million received treatment for alcohol, about 974,000 for marijuana, 796,000 for cocaine, 360,000 for abuse of pain relievers, and 277,000 for heroin. 

Finally, the Office of National Drug Control Policy has as its tasks the coordination of federal, state, and local drug control efforts, as well as the formulation of a comprehensive National Drug Control Strategy, which is outlined in an annual report. 

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