And the committee report says the number of such hard-core cocaine users has increased by 200,000, rather than declining by that number as the NIDA survey indicated.
In addition, NIDA will provide immediate technical assistance in the district's current treatment programs.
Officials also conceded that the survey's estimate of 48,000 current heroin users was inaccurate, as NIDA has been saying for a decade that there are about a half-million heroin addicts.