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DATE: THURSDAY, February 7, 1991                   TAG: 9102070176
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

OFFICE RAISES ESTIMATE OF COCAINE ABUSERS

The Bush administration's drug-control policy office, accused in Congress of underestimating the nation's population of hard-core cocaine abusers, revised its estimate on Wednesday to 1.7 million people - an addition of more than a million.

The previous figure of 660,000 was based on the government's Household Survey on Drug Abuse.

The new figure was announced at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the administration's new $11.7 billion drug strategy.

- Associated Press 


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