[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 69 (Thursday, May 16, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H5187]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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      ADMINISTRATION'S NEW DRUG STRATEGY: OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES

  (Mr. GILMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, the Clinton administration's latest drug 
strategy is nothing more than old wine in new bottles.
  By emphasizing demand at the expense of supply, interdiction and 
eradication, while drug abuse soars among our young is a strategy 
destined for failure.
  Spending three times as much for treatment and corrections as on 
interdiction and international activities, including eradication is 
just plain wrong.
  The illicit drugs that are destroying our neighborhoods and youth, 
originate primarily overseas. We must eradicate these addictive 
substances at their source and interdict them before they reach our 
shorelines and cause addiction.
  We need to fight both supply and demand simultaneously. We must not 
shortchange one for the other.
  Drugs not only kill our young people, and cause violent crime, but 
also threaten our national security as well as the stability of 
democracy in many countries overseas. Let's wage a real war.

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