{"id":108469,"date":"2017-07-27T03:44:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T07:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=108469"},"modified":"2017-07-27T03:44:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T07:44:05","slug":"obamas-national-drug-strategy-fails-while-death-toll-soars-by-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/07\/27\/obamas-national-drug-strategy-fails-while-death-toll-soars-by-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s national drug strategy fails while death toll soars by 40%"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29384\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29384\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_218487058.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29384\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_218487058-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"US President Barack Obama during an official meeting with the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in Washington, DC  (Mykhaylo Palinchak \/ Shutterstock)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_218487058-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_218487058-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_218487058.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Barack Obama during an official meeting with the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in Washington, DC (Mykhaylo Palinchak \/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON, July 27 &#8212; A report by GAO reveals that none of the overall goals in the US National Drug Control Strategy of Barack Obama has been fully achieved.<\/p>\n<p>None of the overall goals in the US National Drug Control Strategy of President Barack Obama has been fully achieved and drug-induced deaths instead increased from 2009 to 2015 by more than 40 percent, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The federal government has made mixed progress toward achieving the goals articulated in the 2010 National Drug Control Strategy,&#8221; the report stated on Wednesday. &#8220;[N]one of the overall goals in the Strategy were fully achieved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Progress had not been made on the goal to reduce drug-induced deaths by 15 percent and drug-induced deaths instead increased from 2009 to 2015 by 41.5 percent and as of July 2017, work is currently underway to develop a new strategy, the report revealed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to ONDCP [Office of National Drug Control Policy] as of July 2017, work is currently underway to develop a new strategy,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in 2015, the most recent year for which national data are available, over 52,000, the GAO said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, July 27 &#8212; A report by GAO reveals that none of the overall goals in the US National Drug &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":29384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[2414,292,19882],"class_list":["post-108469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-death-toll","tag-drugs","tag-ondcp","mauthors-sputnik","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}