    [House Document 111-7]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]

    111th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 111-7

               NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY 2009 ANNUAL REPORT

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                                    MESSAGE

                                      from

                         THEPRESIDENTOFTHEUNITEDSTATES

                                  transmitting

     THE ADMINISTRATION'S 2009 NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY, PURSUANT TO
                                 21 U.S.C. 1504

      January 15, 2009.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the
    Committee on Armed Services, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce,
     Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security, the Judiciary, Natural Resources,
      Oversight and Government Reform, Small Business, Transportation and
    Infrastructure, Veterans' Affairs, and Ways and Means and ordered to be
                                    printed
    To the Congress of the United States:
        I am pleased to transmit the 2009 National Drug Control
    Strategy, consistent with the provisions of section 201 of the
    Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of
    2006.
        My Administration released its first National Drug Control
    Strategy in 2002 with the commitment to turn the tide against a
    problem that truly threatens everything that is good about our
    country. As we prepare to pass this noble charge to a new team
    of leaders, we can look back with satisfaction on what we have
    achieved together as a Nation. From community coalitions to our
    international partnerships, we pursued a balanced strategy that
    emphasized stopping initiation, reducing drug abuse and
    addiction, and disrupting drug markets.
        The results of our efforts are clear. Together we have
    helped reduce teenage drug use by 25 percent since 2001. This
    means 900,000 fewer American teens are using drugs. The Access
    to Recovery program alone has extended treatment services to
    more than 260,000 Americans. Through law enforcement
    cooperation and international partnerships, the United States
    has caused serious disruptions in the availability of drugs
    such as cocaine and methamphetamine, reducing the threat such
    drugs pose to the American people, while also denying profits
    to drug traffickers and terrorists.
        Our work is by no means complete--we must build on these
    efforts both to further reduce drug use and to rise to new
    challenges. I thank the Congress for its support and ask that
    it continue to support this critical endeavor.

                                                        George W. Bush.
        The White House, January 15, 2009.