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Bureau of Prisons: Improved Planning Would Help BOP Evaluate and Manage Its Portfolio of Drug Education and Treatment Programs. Accessible Version. Report to Congressional Requesters. GAO-20-423
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Goodwin, Gretta L. – US Government Accountability Office, 2020
The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is responsible for managing the care and custody of approximately 175,000 federal inmates--an estimated 20 percent of whom have been diagnosed with a substance use disorder. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) was asked to review BOP's efforts to provide drug treatment to federal inmates. This report (1)…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Clinical Diagnosis, Substance Abuse
Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2019
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Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, 2018
"Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2019" contains the Budget Message of the President, information on the President's priorities, and summary tables. 2018 has seen boosted economic growth, the creation of more than two million jobs, and the addition of nearly $5 trillion in new wealth to the stock market. Unemployment…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Budgets, Expenditures, Economic Development
A Profile of Substance Abuse, Gender, Crime, and Drug Policy in the United States and Canada
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Grant, Judith – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2009
The climate of domestic drug policy in the United States as it pertains to both women and men at the beginning of the 21st century is the criminalization mode of regulation--a mode that is based on the model of addiction as a crime and one that is used to prohibit the use of illegal drugs. In Canada, drug policy is based mainly on the harm…
Descriptors: Crime, Incidence, Drug Abuse, Drug Use
The Economic Cost of Methamphetamine Use in the United States, 2005
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Nicosia, Nancy; Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo; Kilmer, Beau; Lundberg, Russell; Chiesa, James – RAND Corporation, 2009
This first national estimate suggests that the economic cost of methamphetamine (meth) use in the United States reached $23.4 billion in 2005. Given the uncertainty in estimating the costs of meth use, this book provides a lower-bound estimate of $16.2 billion and an upper-bound estimate of $48.3 billion. The analysis considers a wide range of…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Crime, Quality of Life, Drug Therapy
Developmental History of U.S. State Department Office of Drug Demand Reduction's International Training
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Deitch, David; Koutsenok, Igor – Journal of Teaching in the Addictions, 2005
The development of the drug overuse and addiction treatment models in the United States has an enormous impact on the adoption of similar activities throughout the world. The increased globalization of substance abuse attracted treatment practitioners from Europe to the U.S. to examine the implementation of therapeutic community and other models…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Narcotics, Global Approach, Law Enforcement
Promising Practices in Drug Treatment: Findings from Latin America
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Nemes, Susanna; Libretto, Salvatore; Garrett, Gerald; Johansson, Anna Carin; Hess, Lauren – Journal of Teaching in the Addictions, 2005
In a study to evaluate the drug treatment and aftercare efforts sponsored by the State Department's International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Bureau, residential Therapeutic Community (TC) treatment programs in three Latin American countries--Brazil, Peru and Argentina--were examined to identify promising practices and to assess lessons…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Narcotics, Focus Groups, Law Enforcement