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Title 21 — Food and DrugsRelease 119-73

§1179 National Drug Abuse Training Center

Title 21 › Chapter CHAPTER 16— - DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION, TREATMENT, AND REHABILITATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - OTHER FEDERAL PROGRAMS › § 1179

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a National Drug Abuse Training Center to design, run, and support training about preventing drug abuse. The Director must talk with the National Advisory Council about the Center’s policies. The Director can run the Center at first but must hand control to the National Institute on Drug Abuse by December 31, 1974. The Center will offer trainings, seminars, conferences, and teaching materials. Its programs are open under the Director’s rules to federal, state, and local officials and staff; medical and paramedical workers and teachers; and other people, including those with drug dependence. Congress provided $1,000,000 for the year ending June 30, 1972; $3,000,000 for the year ending June 30, 1973; $5,000,000 for the year ending June 30, 1974; and $6,000,000 for the year ending June 30, 1975. These funds can be spent in the year given and in the following fiscal year.

Full Legal Text

Title 21, §1179

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(a)The Director shall establish a National Drug Abuse Training Center (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “Center”) to develop, conduct, and support a full range of training programs relating to drug abuse prevention functions. The Director shall consult with the National Advisory Council for Drug Abuse Prevention regarding the general policies of the Center. The Director may supervise the operation of the Center initially, but shall transfer the supervision of the operation of the Center to the National Institute on Drug Abuse not later than December 31, 1974.
(b)The Center shall conduct or arrange for training programs, seminars, meetings, conferences, and other related activities, including the furnishing of training and educational materials for use by others.
(c)The services and facilities of the Center shall, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Director, be available to (1) Federal, State, and local governmental officials, and their respective staffs, (2) medical and paramedical personnel, and educators, and (3) other persons, including drug dependent persons, requiring training or education in drug abuse prevention.
(d)(1)For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and $6,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975.
(2)Sums appropriated under this subsection shall remain available for obligation or expenditure in the fiscal year for which appropriated and in the fiscal year next following.

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The National Advisory Council for Drug Abuse Prevention, referred to in subsec. (a), was established by section 1151 of this title, which was repealed by Pub. L. 92–255, title I, § 104, Mar. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 67, eff. June 30, 1975.

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21 U.S.C. § 1179

Title 21 — Food and Drugs

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73