§1179 National Drug Abuse Training Center

Summary

Create a National Drug Abuse Training Center to plan, run, and support training on preventing drug abuse. The Director must work with the National Advisory Council for Drug Abuse Prevention on the Center’s policies. The Director may run the Center at first but must hand control to the National Institute on Drug Abuse by December 31, 1974. The Center must run or arrange trainings, seminars, meetings, conferences, and provide training materials. Its services, under rules the Director sets, must be open to federal, state, and local officials and staff; medical and paramedical workers and teachers; and others, including people with drug problems, who need training. Congress authorized $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. Money appropriated can be used in the year it is given and in the next fiscal year.