[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.