Rachael Leigh Cook's Career Notwithstanding
[Rachael Leigh Cook, politics, drugs]
Anti-drug advertising campaign a failure, GAO report says
By Donna Leinwand, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — A $1.4 billion anti-drug advertising campaign conducted by the U.S. government since 1998 does not appear to have helped reduce drug use and instead might have convinced some youths that taking illegal drugs is normal, the Government Accountability Office says.
The GAO report, released Friday, urges Congress to stop the White House's National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign unless drug czar John Walters can come up with a better strategy. President Bush's budget for 2007 asks Congress for $120 million for the campaign, a $20 million increase from this year.
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The GAO report is "irrelevant to us," says Tom Riley, spokesman for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). "It's based on ads from 2½ years ago, and they were effective, too. Drug use has been going down dramatically. Cutting the program now would imperil (its) progress."
––Well, doesn't this sound familiar, the White House gets data it doesn't agree with and the decision is to ignore it. Heckuva job your friends are doing there, Dubya.
Read the whole story over at USAToday.com.
[Rachael Leigh Cook, politics, drugs]
Anti-drug advertising campaign a failure, GAO report says
By Donna Leinwand, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — A $1.4 billion anti-drug advertising campaign conducted by the U.S. government since 1998 does not appear to have helped reduce drug use and instead might have convinced some youths that taking illegal drugs is normal, the Government Accountability Office says.
The GAO report, released Friday, urges Congress to stop the White House's National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign unless drug czar John Walters can come up with a better strategy. President Bush's budget for 2007 asks Congress for $120 million for the campaign, a $20 million increase from this year.
[...]
The GAO report is "irrelevant to us," says Tom Riley, spokesman for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). "It's based on ads from 2½ years ago, and they were effective, too. Drug use has been going down dramatically. Cutting the program now would imperil (its) progress."
––Well, doesn't this sound familiar, the White House gets data it doesn't agree with and the decision is to ignore it. Heckuva job your friends are doing there, Dubya.
Read the whole story over at USAToday.com.
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