Narcotics research, rehabilitation, and treatment. Hearings, Ninety ...

o95ernor's Council on Narcotics and Drug Abuse Control by an executiveorder. The mission of this council was to coordinate the efforts,assets, technology and experience of all of our State agencies in anyway concerned with drug abuse and to direct them to a solution of thedrug problem. Coordination was their first priority and a summary ofthe plan of coordination is being submitted to your committee with mytestimony, sir.Cli;nrnian Pf.fper. It will be received.Governor PIolton. We also created regional drug councils. Our Stateis one of the few that has been divided into 22 planning districts forcoordination of all of our services, and we are seeking through theregional drug councils to tie the localities into State effort. It wasamazing how many various agencies or volunteer groups there werein some areas of our State working on this. I think we reduced as manyas 90 in the A/'irginia area to eight groups through these regional councils.We asked the regional councils to develop a plan that would bringdirection, planning, objectives, and goals against drug abuse to thegrassroots level. The assembly, the Legislature of Virginia, also passeda new drug code in 1970 which is very close to the model code. Wehave this year, in a special session of the assembly, created a new drugstrike force within the State police department. This strike force willtry across the entire State to move against those criminals who profitbv dealing in drugs.In the education phase, I think we have had very good success. Lastsunmier, in 1970, we gave 200 teachers a 2-week intensive course in drug;ibuse and use and then required them to go back to their communitiesto give 10 hours of awareness training to fellow teachers. Now, byawareness training, we meant knowing what the drugs are, the symptomsthat the children will exhibit when taking drugs, and some ofthe syndromes behind the taking of drugs. Those teachers are reallyin the frontline, Mr. Chairman, and today, through this program,47,000 of our teachers have been given this 10-hour awareness trainingand by the end of July, we hope that we will have gotten 55,000teachers.That is not enough. We are revising the health curriculum fromkindergarten through the 10th grade to include drug education, notjust drug information—real drug education. That means that we aregoing to have to certify teachers to teach the program. It means thatwe are going to have to retain 1,500 teachers and 2,000 counselors between1072 and 1974, and we expected to do it. This gives a 2-yearperiod for universities and colleges to gear up to begin to produce certifiedteachei's.Besides this training, the State is also carefully looking at a programto utilize the PTA's throughout the Commonwealth as a vehicle togive the people of our State the same 10 hours of awareness training,and we hope to reach 214 million by 1975. That is the outline of whatwe are doing in education.In treatment and rehabilitation, we are really in the beginning of aprogram and we very strongly feel the inadequacy which is so generalin this area of treatment and rehabilitation. We' doubt, I think withmost everyone, that there is any single type of treatment or rehabilitationwhich will be successful in all the cases, and we are not confidentabout even some of the more popular programs. However, we have