PART IV.  DRUG POLICY BOARD

§219.1.  Policy and purpose

A.  It is the policy of the state to undertake every responsible effort, explore every opportunity, invite every useful contribution, and expend every available resource, to eliminate the abuse of drugs and alcohol and the damage to people and institutions that results from such abuse.  

B.  In view of the policy of the state, it is the purpose of this Part to establish a state agency organizationally positioned and structurally empowered to elicit, motivate, and coordinate the best efforts and ideas of all organizations, agencies, entities, and individuals who volunteer or can be conscripted to make a contribution toward the goal of eradicating drug and alcohol abuse and its poisonous fruit.  

Acts 1990, No. 1029, §2, eff. July 26, 1990.