Posted by Ginger (199.227.90.177) on April 20, 2000 at 07:11:54:
Anyone know anything about these organizations?
Newshawk: Sledhead
Pubdate: Wed, 19 Apr 2000
Source: Florida Times-Union (FL)
Copyright: The Florida Times-Union 2000
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DRUGS: PREVENTION IS WORTH FUNDING
If drug prevention programs are working, the state should be paying for them.
Drug abuse continues to be a problem, despite the decrease in crime, and local drug prevention efforts, such as the River Region Human Services
program, are effective, local officials say.
Funding in each of the two versions of the budget being hashed out in a legislative conference committee is less than the governor requested. However, the figures are close and the end result likely will be a
substantial increase from the current level.
This would keep the state on course toward its announced goal of reducing drug abuse by 50 percent over five years.
Locally, the efforts to divert first-time cases from the courts into treatment programs, combined with various prevention and treatment efforts, are producing results. A survey of 19,000 local public school students done recently showed a drop in drug and alcohol use. The national Safe and Drug Free Schools Program listed Jacksonville as one of six exemplary school districts in the nation.
Given the large number of inmates in state prison on drug-related charges, prevention and treatment programs that work may justify substantial funding when the funds are available.
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