• Goal 1: Prevention - Stopping Use Before It Starts;
• Goal 2: Enforcement - Aggressively attacking unlawful drug activity;    
• Goal 3: Treatment/Recovery - Getting treatment resources where they are needed.

Goal 1: Protect Orange County citizens from substance abuse

• Objective 1: Educate children, parents, and other youth mentors, to help Orange County young people reject illegal drugs and underage alcohol and tobacco use.
• Objective 2: Provide Orange County youth with research based substance abuse programs.
• Objective 3: Encourage and assist the development of community/neighborhood groups in preventing substance abuse.
• Objective 4: Support drug free schools and environments that promote zero-tolerance for substance abuse, where Orange County citizens can be free from the risks of drugs, alcohol and tobacco.

• Objective 5: Work with the media, community structures, sports organizations, business and faith groups, to encourage young people to reject substance abuse.

• Objective 1: Educate the Orange County citizens as to the dangers of illegal drugs.
• Objective 2: Make available effective treatment to Orange County citizens that need it.
• Objective 3: Provide research based substance abuse prevention programs
• Objective 4: Expand drug free workplace programs that emphasize drug prevention education, testing, and intervention.
• Objective 5: Support community efforts that take a stand against drug abuse.

• Objective 1: Support law enforcement with resources, training, and coordination, across jurisdictional boundaries and throughout the criminal justice system, to stop the trafficking of drugs.
• Objective 2: Support federal, state and local law enforcement efforts toward the common objectives of decreasing the supply of illegal drugs and dismantling drug trafficking organizations.
• Objective 3: Improve and expand information systems that provide law enforcement officials with the tools to effectively counter drug trafficking.
• Objective 4: Support law enforcement efforts to disrupt criminal money laundering operations and seize and forfeit criminal assets.

1. Reduce the reported use of alcohol and other drugs among our youth by 5% in Orange County by 2008. (SAFE Substance Abuse Survey) 
2. Increase the average age of first time drug use to 17 years or older by 2005.
3. Decrease drug abuse in the work place by 50% by 2005.
4. Reduce the number of chronic drug users in Orange County by 50% by 2005.
5. Arrest the upward trends of heroin and cocaine related deaths and bring them down by 50% by 2005.
6. Increase the number of drug free workplaces to 1000 by 2005.

The 1999 Florida Drug Summit defined the principles that were to guide the formulation and implementation of the Florida Strategy. Orange County citizens determine that Orange County's Drug Control Strategy must also:

• Principle 1: Be comprehensive, integrated and balanced in the areas of enforcement, prevention, and treatment.
• Principle 2: Focus on the vital role of families, friends, businesses, faith, and communities as they pertain to the problem and solution.
• Principle 3: Maximize strong prevention approaches, including the involvement of your people.
• Principle 4: Be researched based, measurable and accountable for performance.
• Principle 5: Be built upon strong sustained leadership and be long term in nature.
• Principle 6: Utilize the power of the media.
• Principle 7: Utilize the community leaders as examples.
• Principle 8: Focus on positive and healthy lifestyles.
• Principle 9: Ensure all citizens see themselves as part of the solution.