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White House Drug Czar Awards $74 Million to Drug-Free Community Coalitions
(Washington, D.C.)—John Walters, Director of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), today announced the awarding of approximately $74 million in Drug Free Communities (DFC) grants to 736 communities across the country. Of this amount, $8.9 million was awarded to 90 new local anti-drug coalitions nationwide. August 23, 2007

Bush Administration Cracks Down on Mexican Drug Gangs Polluting U.S. Parks (PDF 35kb)
The Director of National Drug Control Policy, John Walters, and the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California, McGregor Scott, participated in marijuana eradication operations today in California's Sequoia National Forest. They met with Federal, State, and local law enforcement professionals to discuss the worrisome trend of increasing marijuana production by violent Mexican drug cartels on U.S. public lands. August 30, 2006

White House Drug Czar Awards $72 Million to Drug-Free Community Coalitions (PDF 31kb)
John Walters, Director of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), today awarded $10.5 million in Drug Free Communities (DFC) grants to 107 communities across the country. August 29, 2006

Drug Czar to Discuss Random Student Drug Testing as an Effective Way to Reduce Illegal Drug Use During Visit to Orlando, Florida (PDF 45kb )
Survey shows that students with an average grade of “D” or below were more than four times more likely to have used marijuana in the past year. July 26, 2006

Drug Use Drops in Oregon: Employer Drug Tests Detect Five-Year Low (PDF 32kb)
Signaling significant progress in the effort to reduce methamphetamine use, new data from workplace drug screenings, conducted by Quest Diagnostics, indicate the number of people testing positive for amphetamines, which includes methamphetamine, has hit a five-year low in Oregon. July 20, 2006

Employer Drug Tests Detect Two-year Low in Meth Use (PDF 32kb)
Signaling significant progress in the effort to reduce methamphetamine use, new data from workplace drug screenings, conducted by Quest Diagnostics, indicate the number of people testing positive for methamphetamine has hit a two year low. June 19, 2006

U.S. Releases First-Ever Synthetic Drug Control Strategy
Rachel Brand, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy, and John Walters, Director of National Drug Control Policy, today joined other high-ranking U.S. anti-drug officials and the Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Mexico, Ambassador Eduardo Ibarrola, to release the Nation's first Synthetic Drug Control Strategy. June 1, 2006

Meth and Steroid Use Decline Sharply Among Youth; Overall Youth Drug Use Down Again (PDF 101kb )
The use of methamphetamine and steroids has dropped sharply among young people since 2001, according to the University of Michigan's 2005 Monitoring the Future survey released today. December 19, 2005