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Between 1988 and 1995, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) estimates that Americans spent 57.3 billion on drugs for nonmedical purposes. 

Currently, drug trafficking is a 400-billion-per-year industry in our country and represents 8% of the world s trade. According to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Americans currently spend 46— 79 billion annually on just two (of many possible) psychoactive drugs cocaine and heroin (Kari Associates, 2004). The Bureau of Justice Statistics (1999) indicates that between 60% and 83 % of the nation s correctional population have used drugs at some point in their lives, roughly twice as many as others in the U.S. population. 

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White House Office of National Dmg Control Policy. Dmg Facts Club Dmgs, 2001. [Pg.223]

The Vatican s Index of Prohibited Books was a public document that proudly proclaimed the Church s struggle against values it considered subversive. In contrast, the clandestine nature of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy s tampering with TV scripts is evidence that those responsible for it knew full well that they were subverting America s values, and perhaps its laws as well. 

In 1997 the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), General Barry McCaffrey, faced a big public relations problem. Even though McCaffrey, several former presidents, and many others lobbied against medical marijuana initiatives in California and Arizona, the citizens of those states voted to legalize medical marijuana. McCaffrey stuck to his conviction that marijuana was not medicine and vowed that the federal government would prosecute patients and doctors who broke federal marijuana laws. 

The White House Office of the Press Secretary, Executive Order - National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, 22 May 2010, established the Commission with a mandate to analyse the root causes of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and to recommend options for future. 

The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, "Remarks by the President at the National Academy of Sciences Meeting," April 27,2009. http / /www.white-house.gov / the-press-office / remarks-president-national-academy-sciences-annual-meeting. Accessed April 15, 2014. 

This facility design concept was not considered in White House reviews of reprocessing during the Ford and Carter Administrations, nor as an option for support by President Reagan, who had been elected on a platform to support reprocessing of commercial spent firel. The ERDA and the DOE had reassigned responsibilities for commercial fuel cycle to its Division of Reactor Development (later Office of Nuclear Energy) which supported pilot plant concepts of its national laboratories and rejected concepts based on successful experience and lessons learned from that experience. 

While swallowing the pills or dissolving them in liquid are the most common ways to take Rohypnol, reports suggest some abusers crush the pills and snort the powder much as they would cocaine. The White House s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) also indicates there is evidence that some abusers are injecting powdered Rohypnol with hypodermic needles, possibly as a cheap substitute for heroin. 

Office of National Drug Control Policy, 2005. White House Drug Czar, research and mental health communities warn parents that marijuana use can lead to depression, suicidal thoughts and schizophrenia. http //www.whitehousedrugpolicy. gov/news/press05/050305.html (accessed September 1,2005). 

The President s National Drug Control Strategy Press Release. (2002, February 12). Office of the White House Press Secretary. Retrieved April 8, 2004 from http //www.whitehouse.gov/news/reieases/2002/02/ 20020212-2.html... 

NIEHS (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences). 1998. Scientific Issues Relevant to Assessment of Health Effects from Exposure to Methylmercury. Workshop organized by Committee on Environmental and Natural Resources(CENR) Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) The White House. November 18-20, 1998. Raleigh, NC. 

The drill was notable for the top-level attention it drew and the gaps it showed in the effort to protect against bioterrorism. About three dozen senior officials involved in domestic defense, including two cabinet officers—the secretary of homeland security, and the secretary of transportation—as well as the head of the White House s Homeland Security Council, participated in the exercise at the Pentagon s National Defense University. 

By the time Bush received the second National Academy of Sciences report, he had assumed the position of director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. Established by an executive order on June 28, 1941—sbc days after German troops invaded the Soviet Union—the Office of Scientific Research and Development strengthened the scientific presence in the federal govenunent. Bush, who had lobbied hard for the new setup, now reported directly to the President and could invoke the prestige of the White House in his dealings with other federal agencies. The National Defense Research Committee, now headed by James B. Co-nant, president of Harvard University, became an advisory body responsible for making research and development recommendations to the Office of Scientific Research and Development. The Uranium Committee became the Office of Scientific Research and Development Section on Uranium and was codenamed S-1 (Section One of the Office of Scientific Research and Development). 

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