[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 12, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Page S2338]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY FOR 2003--PM 15

  The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following message 
from the President of the United States, together with an accompanying 
report; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary:

To the Congress of the United States:
  I am pleased to transmit the 2003 National Drug Control Strategy, 
consistent with the Office of National Drug Control Policy 
Reauthorization Act of 1998 (12 U.S.C. 1705).
  A critical component of our Strategy is to teach young people how to 
avoid illegal drugs because of the damage drugs can do to their health 
and future. Our children must learn early that they have a lifelong 
responsibility to reject illegal drug use and to stay sober. Our young 
people who avoid drugs will grow up best able to participate in the 
promise of America.
  Yet far too many Americans already use illegal drugs, and most of 
those whose drug use has progressed--more than five million Americans--
do not even realize they need help. While those who suffer from 
addiction must help themselves, family, friends, and people with drug 
experiences must do their part to help to heal and to make whole men 
and women who have been broken by addiction.
  We know the drug trade is a business. Drug traffickers are in that 
business to make money, and this Strategy outlines how we intend to 
deny them revenue. In short, we intend to make the drug trade 
unprofitable wherever we can.
  Our Strategy is performance-based, and its success will be measured 
by its results. Those results are our moral obligation to our children. 
I ask for your continued support in this critical endeavor.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, February 12, 2003.

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