CONGRESSIONAL UPDATE

POTENTIAL CUTS IN PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS (6/4/98)

Congressional staff has indicated that alcohol and other drug prevention, treatment and education funding may be CUT.

BACKGROUND
The House of Representatives and Senate are currently working on Fiscal Year 1999 appropriations. Members of Congress have not received much support from grassroots constituencies for increases in funding.

WHAT YOU CAN DO
Contact your senators and representative by calling the Capitol Hill Switchboard -- 202/224-3121 -- and asking for his or her office. Or e-mail your senators and representative at: The U. S. House of Representatives and The U. S. Senate.

* Tell them that alcohol and other drug related problems continue to drain the American economy -- we spent $250 billion in 1992. The emotional costs to families is immeasurable.

* Request that prevention, treatment and education funding be INCREASED. Ask them to contact the Appropriations Committee chairmen and appropriate these funding levels:

Safe and Drug Free Schools

PLEASE CONTACT YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. ASK YOUR COLLEAGUES, FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO CALL, TOO.



If you have any questions, please call the Public Policy Office via e-mail at publicpolicy@ncadd.org.

Substance Abuse Block Grant $1.51 Billion
($200 million increase)
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment $180 million
($24 million increase)
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention $170 million
($19 million increase)
CSAP's High Risk Youth Program $10 million
($4 million increase)
$606 million
($50 million increase)