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  1. "Since the definition of homicide is similar in most countries, absolute comparisons of rates are possible. For the period 1999 to 2001, the average rate (the number of homicides per 100,000 population) was 1.6 in the EU with the highest rates in Finland (2.9), Northern Ireland (2.7) and Scotland (2.2). For the other countries, the highest rates were found in Russia (22.1), Estonia (10.6), Lithuania (10.6) and the USA (5.6)."

    Source: 
    Barclay, Gordon & Cynthia Tavares, "International Comparisons of Criminal Justice Statistics 2001," Home Office Bulletin 12/03 (London, England, UK: Home Office Research, Development, and Statistics Directorate, October 24, 2003), p. 3.

  2. "NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY GOALS"

    "Two-Year Goals: A 10 percent reduction in current use of illegal drugs by 8th, 10th, and 12th graders."

    "A 10 percent reduction in current use of illegal drugs by adults age 18 and older."

    "Five-Year Goals: A 25 percent reduction in current use of illegal drugs by 8th, 10th, and 12th graders."

    "A 25 percent reduction in current use of illegal drugs by adults age 18 and older."

    "Note: Progress toward youth goals is measured from the baseline established by the 2001 Monitoring the Future survey. Progress toward adult goals is measured from the baseline of the 2002 National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health. All Strategy goals seek to reduce current use of any illicit drug. Use of alcohol and tobacco products, although illegal for youths, is not captured by 'any illicit drug.'"

    Source: 
    Office of National Drug Control Policy, "National Drug Control Strategy" (Washington, DC: Executive Office of the President, Feb. 2005), p. 4.

  3. "The National Drug Control Strategy proposes a ten-year conceptual framework to reduce illegal drug use and availability 50 percent by the year 2007."

    Source: 
    Office of National Drug Control Policy, "Reducing Drug Abuse in America: An Overview of Demand Reduction Initiatives", Chapter II (Washington, DC: Executive Office of the President, January 1999), from the web at http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugabuse/2a.html last accessed Oct. 4, 2000.

  4. "In the United States, whose legislation serves as a model for international drug control agreements and which claims the leadership of the global antidrug fight, the war 'on drugs' is one of the main reasons for a rapid and dramatic increase of the prison population that started in the mid-1980s."

    Source: 
    Observatoire Geopolitique des Drogues, The World Geopolitics of Drugs 1998/1999, "Trends for 1998/1999: The Globalization of the Trafficking Economy" (Paris, France: OGD, April 2000).

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