Meese Speech Before U.N. Narcotics Officials

On Monday, December 9, 1985, U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III spoke before U.N. Narcotics officials in Vienna, Austria.  He pointed out how serious the U.S. takes the work that the U.N. Division of Narcotic Drugs, the U.N. Fund for Drug Abuse Control, and the International Narcotics Control Board does in Vienna by briefly describing what the American experience has been.  Recent American efforts to combat domestic drug abuse have targeted the demand for drugs as well as the supply of illegal narcotics because the U.S. firmly believes that it is necessary to work from both ends.