Rand Report: U.S. Overstates its Drug Spending by $1 Billion

February 12, 2001 Rand Report: U.S. Overstates its Drug Spending by $1 Billion  In January 2001, the Rand Corporation released a study which found that three federal agencies overstated their spending on drug treatment by $1 billion. The Rand study also found that the reported costs of some law enforcement efforts are no more than ''educated guesses.'' The Rand report recommends that the drug control office ''define explicitly what constitutes an anti-drug activity'' and that budgets should be based on ''empirical data, something more than guesses or expert judgments.'' The purpose of the report, Improving Anti-Drug Budgeting . . .