By boosting community-based prevention, expanding treatment, strengthening law enforcement, and working collaboratively with our global partners, we will reduce drug use and the great damage it causes in our communities.
Barack Obama: “By boosting community-based prevention, expanding treatment, strengthening law enforcement, and working collaboratively…”
On the recordMay 10, 2010
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Press Release - President Obama Releases National Strategy To Reduce Drug Use and Its Consequences
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