Drug Budget Criticized by Other Side
Though advocacy groups like Drug Policy Alliance have been critical of too much supply-side funding at the expense of demand-side funding in the drug war, with the release of the 2006 National Drug Control Strategy, even law enforcement agencies have criticized the budget. The National Narcotics Officers Associations Coalition (NNOAC) has been critical of the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) for being denied access to policy decisions. Specifically, NNOAC criticized the lack of leadership in the growing meth problem, the budget cuts to the Byrne program, and to the proposed relocation of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program which could change its focus.