21 U.S.C. § 1179 — National Drug Abuse Training Center

(a) The Director must set up a National Drug Abuse Training Center to create, run, and support training programs about preventing drug abuse. The Director must consult the National Advisory Council for Drug Abuse Prevention on the Center's general policies. The Director may run the Center at first, but must transfer its operation to the National Institute on Drug Abuse by December 31, 1974. (b) The Center must hold or arrange training programs, seminars, meetings, conferences, and similar activities. It must also provide training and educational materials for others to use. (c) Under the Director's rules, the Center's services must be available to several groups. These include federal, state, and local government officials and their staff. They also include medical and paramedical workers and educators. And they include other people, including drug-dependent individuals, who need this training or education. (d) Congress authorized specific funding for the Center: $1,000,000 for the 1972 fiscal year, $3,000,000 for 1973, $5,000,000 for 1974, and $6,000,000 for 1975. Money appropriated stays available for spending in the year it was given and the following year.

The record indicates that this section was enacted as part of Public Law 92–255, title IV, § 412, approved March 21, 1972, and published at 86 Stat. 84. The source credit reflects no subsequent amendments to the section's text, suggesting it has remained largely as originally enacted. Public Law 92-255 is commonly identified as the Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972. This era is generally understood as a period of heightened federal attention to drug abuse, coinciding with the establishment of the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention and, later, the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The broader act is commonly described as creating a coordinated federal framework for drug abuse prevention, treatment, and research, consistent with national policy priorities of the early 1970s often associated with what was popularly termed the "war on drugs." Within that context, the section's establishment of a National Drug Abuse Training Center appears consistent with the Act's general aim of building institutional and educational infrastructure to support prevention efforts, including training programs for officials, medical personnel, and others involved in addressing drug dependency. However, the record does not establish the specific legislative rationale for this particular provision, including why a dedicated training center was deemed necessary or how it was expected to interact with other components of the 1972 Act. Any more detailed account of congressional intent for § 412 specifically would go beyond what the available text and source credit support.