NATION : $4 Million for L.A. Drug Program
The government awarded $60 million in drug treatment grants today to eight drug-ravaged cities, including Los Angeles, and to scores of local programs set up for teen-agers, minorities, public housing residents, prisoners and parolees.
The eight target cities will receive a total of $28.5 million. Los Angeles will get $4 million. Other cities are Atlanta; Boston; Baltimore; Milwaukee; New York; San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Albuquerque, N.M.,
The cities were selected based on the severity of their drug problem and the uniqueness of their proposal to make “systemic” changes in how they deliver drug treatment.
The $60 million--approved by Congress last year and not threatened by the current budget conflict--is the first major project of the Public Health Service’s Office of Treatment Improvement.
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