[Analytical Perspectives]
[Federal Drug Control Funding]
[23. Federal Drug Control Funding]
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FEDERAL DRUG CONTROL FUNDING
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ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES
23. FEDERAL DRUG CONTROL FUNDING
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23. FEDERAL DRUG CONTROL FUNDING
The FY 2004 Federal Drug Control Budget reflects a significant
restructuring of past years' Drug Control Budgets, as outlined in the
Fiscal Year 2003 Budget of the President. To the maximum extent
possible, resources included in this, and future drug budgets, will now
tie directly to identifiable line items in the Budget of the President
or to agency budget justifications for Congress, accompanying the
budget.
In addition, several accounts previously included in the Drug Control
Budget have been dropped. Some accounts were dropped because drug funds
in those accounts were either very small portions of the agency's
budget; e.g., drug funding in the National Park Service represented
about .4 percent of the agency's total budget. Others were dropped
because the reported drug-related spending was simply a derivation from
the agency's budget, which provided a gross estimate of a secondary cost
of drug use (e.g., approximately 60 percent of the Bureau of Prisons
budget was previously reported as drug spending because that portion of
Federal prisoners were serving sentence due to a drug conviction.)
The drug budget now reflects only those expenditures aimed at reducing
drug use, rather than those associated with the consequences of drug
use. These latter costs will continue to be periodically reported by
ONDCP in the Economic Costs of Drug Abuse in the United States. Further,
the modified drug budget provides a more realistic basis for policy
makers to consider tradeoffs between spending for prevention, treatment
and law enforcement programs.
Table 23-1. FEDERAL DRUG CONTROL FUNDING, FY 2002-2004
(Budget authority, in millions of dollars)
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2002 2003 2004
Department/Agency Enacted Estimate Request
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Department of Defense.......................................................... 853 872 817
Department of Education........................................................ 669 634 584
Deptartment of Health and Human Services....................................... 3,190 3,333 3,571
National Institutes of Health............................................... 885 960 996
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admin............................ 2,304 2,373 2,575
Department of Homeland Security................................................ 1,793 1,868 2,042
Border and Transportation Security.......................................... 1,184 1,272 1,373
U.S. Coast Guard............................................................ 610 596 669
Department of Justice.......................................................... 2,942 2,460 2,566
Bureau of Prisons........................................................... 39 43 45
Drug Enforcement Administration............................................. 1,563 1,660 1,677
Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement \1\.................................. 446 470 542
Office of Justice Programs.................................................. 893 287 301
ONDCP.......................................................................... 528 523 524
Operations.................................................................. 25 25 27
High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program................................ 221 206 206
Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center.................................... 42 40 40
Other Federal Drug Control Programs......................................... 239 251 250
Department of State............................................................ 872 878 877
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs......................... 227 147 146
Andean Counterdrug Initiative............................................... 645 731 731
Department of Veterans Affairs................................................. 636 664 690
Other Presidential Initiatives \2\............................................. 3 8 8
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Total Federal Drug Spending.................................................... 11,485 11,239 11,679
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\1\ The FY 2004 Budget proposes the merger of the Treasury Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement (ICDE) account
into Justice's ICDE account. Treasury and Justice funding is shown as combined for all three years, 2002-2004.
\2\ Includes funding for the Corporation for National Service's Parents Drug Corps ($5M), and the Small Business
Administration's Drug-Free Workplace ($3M) programs.