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away from drugs.
The focus of the council's efforts should be'I on community-based programs “with innovative ideas and approaches,” said Attorney General:. Mary Sue Terry, the 17-member council's chairwoman.
“If we have learned anything from our failure to cope successfully with the problems ofdrug and alcohol abuse, we have learned that government does not have all the answers,” Ms. < Terry said.
Accordingly, she said, the year-old Com-, monwealth Alliance for Drug Rehabilitation and Education, or CADRE, would be expanded with • a new CADRE Foundation.
The foundation will be a public-private partnership that includes business and professional • leaders who will help raise funds for substance abuse programs in schools, she said.
The initial CADRE Foundation effort willinclude a statewide advertising campaign developed and donated by the Richmond-based Finne-.,gan and Agee agency.
The agency “will identify the print and elec-,tronic media that .young Virginians pay attention11 to, and will tailor a campaign to their needs,” ■! Ms. Terry said.
“We need to persuade young people as. • never before that drugs and alcohol are not. cool,” the attorney general said. “And that’s a tremendous task.”
The council also was told about a number of-, state programs already under way to combat : substance abuse, including efforts by the departments of Education, Social Services, State Po-. lice, Motor Vehicles and Mental Health.
Col. Robert L. Suthard, superintendent of state police, said narcotics are stronger, users are younger, and distributors are more aggresr sive than ever before.
He said the growth of substance abuse from. the marijuana problem of the 1960s to widespread cocaine use in the 1980s has made it one of the top priorities for law enforcement agendes.
Drugs increasingly are factors in other crimes, Col. Suthard said.
A recent state police identification program for drug transporters resulted in seizing $5 mil-, lion worth of cocaine in a car traveling dong In-.. terstate 95 in late June, the superintendent said.
He said police also monitor airports for drug trafficking and use dogs trained to sniff for illegal narcotics.
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