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What Are Our Major Objectives?

By the Year 2000*

• Cut cocaine and marijuana use, measured in past 30-day use, by 50%
• Increase to 95% the students who perceive social disapproval in trying cocaine
• Reduce drug-related deaths by 21%
• Increase high school senior disapproval of marijuana use by 27%
• Increase proportion of high school seniors who associate risk of physical or psychological harm with regular use of marijuana by 60%
• Reduce alcohol-related motor vehicle deaths by 10%
• Reduce cirrhosis deaths by 33%
• Reduce teen heavy drinking by 20%
• Reduce alcohol consumption by 20%