National Drug Control Strategy Reaction

The National Drug Control Strategy has set goals that seem to have objectives that would truly benefit society and drug and alcohol users in general. I believe that moving from getting tough on drugs to prevention, intervention and treatment is the right road to take when dealing with alcohol and drugs. Although the budget has increased for drug control the money is not going into the areas that go along with the new path that the strategy is saying they want to take. By giving more money to law enforcement rather than prevention and treatment their new goals will not be met. In regards to admissions, treatment for people with multiple addictions seems to not be coinciding with how many people actually have multiple addictions. One other statistic that stood out to me was how the unemployment rate has risen so much for people in treatment since 2000.