Drug Money

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Drugs are back in at the White House. After presenting four years of declining drug-fighting budgets, President Clinton reversed course Tuesday, announcing a $16 billion strategy aimed primarily at broadcasting anti-drug messages to kids. The new budget is some $800 million higher than this years funding. Some $350 million will be allotted to an unprecedented prime-time ad campaign designed to publicize the Administrations anti-drug message. While the campaign will surely make the program more visible to the general public, some anti-drug advocates worry its impact will be limited. "They are not enough," said Rosalind Brannigan, vice president of Drug Strategies. "The majority of programs that are funded are not the programs that research has shown are efficacious."