"Health & Medical News"

By Bob Curley

HIV/AIDS and “crosscutting priorities” join prevention and treatment as the four major goals outlined in the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) new strategic plan, recently released in draft form.

Citing “recent revolutionary advances in drug abuse research,” NIDA has been working with its national advisory council and others in the addiction research field to develop the plan, the agency’s first major new outline of goals and objectives since former director Alan Leshner, Ph.D., published a five-year strategic plan in 2000.

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The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) and other addiction and prevention organizations fired off a letter objecting to Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) calling them “drug legalization groups” because they oppose his legislation penalizing students with drug convictions by stripping their federal college aid.

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