Drug Control: Initial Reivew of the National Strategy and Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Programs.

摘要

To implement the 2010 National Drug Control Strategy, ONDCP obtained input from drug control stakeholders to help ensure that they shared responsibility for implementation, established a new process to determine progress made, and reported that most action items in the Strategy were on track or complete as of November 2011. ONDCP officials stated that they developed the 2010 Strategy's seven objectives--for example, Strengthen Efforts to Prevent Drug Use in Our Communities--and 106 action items under these objectives through a consultative process with federal, state, and local drug control agencies and other stakeholders. Officials from the four agencies we spoke with as of April 2012 stated that ONDCP sought input from them to develop the Strategy and that as a result, existing agency priorities and activities are reflected in the Strategy. ONDCP officials stated that this alignment helps facilitate Strategy implementation. In August 2010, ONDCP initiated a process to track progress made on Strategy action items. As part of this process, ONDCP requested that each agency develop and submit (1) a plan for implementing each action item for which it has lead responsibility and (2) status updates on implementation progress when requested. ONDCP officials stated that they use this and other information to determine the implementation status of each of the action items and then share the results with lead agencies in order to motivate them to take steps to address items that are not on track, among other things. In November 2011, ONDCP reported that 84 percent of the 113 action items in the 2010 Strategy and 2011 update were on track or complete, while the remaining 16 percent were either delayed but progressing, facing budget issues, or at risk. ONDCP officials stated that this process to track and report on implementation progress helps hold agencies accountable for implementing action items.