NCJ Number
129019
Date Published
1990
Length
50 pages
Annotation
This drug strategy plan for Louisville/Jefferson County, Ky., presents a communitywide, multifaceted approach for reducing both drug supply and demand.
Abstract
The report first reviews the scope of the drug problem in Louisville/Jefferson County and then summarizes existing drug-related programs and services. The report on a needs assessment survey identifies gaps in existing programs and services. The presentation of the drug strategy plan encompasses the strategy's purpose, short-term goals, and long-term goals. The strategy's purpose is to ensure that communitywide efforts to address the local drug problem provide a continuum of services in treatment, prevention/education, and enforcement. Short-term goals include the implementation of Drug Abuse Resistance Education for 5th graders, the continuation and expansion of the Street Sales Enforcement Project, the implementation of a community-based anti-drug initiative, the provision of a diagnostic assessment center for youth, narcotics training for patrol officers, and offender drug testing and treatment. Long-term goals involve both system improvement and community programming. They focus on drug-free workplaces, computer modeling of the impact of drug cases on the local criminal justice system, a sentencing alternative for nonviolent drug offenders, additional residential placement options, drug control legislation, and a regional drug enforcement task force. Appended supplementary policies, narcotic database tables, anti-drug abuse funding summary, and the needs assessment survey