§ 1102. Congressional declaration of national policy

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1972

   Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972

   Pub. L. 92–255 title I § 102 · 86 Stat. 65

   Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 1102

   Pub. L. 92–255, title I, § 102, Mar. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 66

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 92–255, title I, § 102, Mar. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 66

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   § 102. Declaration of national policy. The Congress declares that, it is the policy of the United States and the purpose of this Act to focus the comprehensive resources of the Federal Government and bring them to bear on drug abuse with the immediate objective of significantly reducing the incidence of drug abuse in the United States within the shortest possible period of time, and to develop a comprehensive, coordinated long-term Federal strategy to combat drug abuse.

2. 1976

   Pub. L. 94–237 § 2 · 90 Stat. 241

   Substituted · 21 U.S.C. § 1102

   Pub. L. 94–237 substituted “objective of significantly reducing the incidence, as well as the social and personal costs, of drug abuse in the United States, and to develop and assure the implementation of” for “immediate objective of significantly reducing the incidence of drug abuse in the United States within the shortest possible period of time, and to develop”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 94–237 substituted “objective of significantly reducing the incidence, as well as the social and personal costs, of drug abuse in the United States, and to develop and assure the implementation of” for “immediate objective of significantly reducing the incidence of drug abuse in the United States within the shortest possible period of time, and to develop”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 2. Section 102 of the Act (21 U.S.C. 1102) is amended by striking “immediate objective of significantly reducing the incidence of drug abuse in the United States within the shortest possible period of time, and to develop” and inserting in lieu thereof “objective of significantly reducing the incidence, as well as the social and personal costs, of drug abuse in the United States, and to develop and assure the implementation of”.

3. 1980

   Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Amendments of 1979

   Pub. L. 96–181 § 3 · 93 Stat. 1309

   Inserted · 21 U.S.C. § 1102

   Pub. L. 96–181 inserted additional declarations of policy prescribing methods and programs by which the goals are to be reached

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 96–181 inserted additional declarations of policy prescribing methods and programs by which the goals are to be reached.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec 3. Section 102 (21 U.S.C. 1102) is amended by adding at the end Declaration of national policy. thereof the following: “To reach these goals, the Congress further declares that it is the policy of the United States and the purpose of this Act to meet the problems of drug abuse through— “(1) comprehensive Federal, State, and local planning for, and effective use of, Federal assistance to States and to community-based programs to meet the urgent needs of special populations, in coordination with all other governmental and nongovernmental sources of assistance; “(2) the development and support of community-based prevention programs; “(3) the development and encouragement of effective occupational prevention and treatment programs within the Government and in cooperation with the private sector; and “(4) increased Federal commitment to research into the behavioral and biomedical etiology of, the treatment of, and the mental and physical health and social and economic consequences of, drug abuse.”.

3 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision