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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Oct 16, 2001
Comprehensive Club Drug Abuse Reduction Act - Establishes the Club Drug Task Force, an interagency task force which shall have responsibility for designing, implementing, and evaluating the education and prevention and treatment practices and strategies of the Federal Government in conjunction with State, local, and community leaders with respect to club drugs and other synthetic stimulants.Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a public health monitoring program to monitor club drugs in the United States.Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Director of the Prevention Center to make grants to and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with public and nonprofit private entities to enable such entities to: (1) carry out school-based programs concerning the dangers of club drug abuse and addiction, using methods that are effective and evidence-based, including initiatives that give students the responsibility to create their own anti-drug abuse education programs for their schools; and (2) carry out community-based club drug abuse and addiction prevention programs that are effective and evidence-based.
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Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6] · R–MO
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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