Carter Tells The Daily Signal Faith Is at the Center of the National Drug Strategy
March 25, 2026 · The Daily Signal · 0:21:03
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What happened
ONDCP Director Sara Carter gave The Daily Signal an exclusive interview in her Washington office, published March 25, 2026, previewing the administration’s national drug control strategy ahead of its planned May release. “For the first time, we have brought faith to the center of our strategy,” Carter told The Daily Signal. “We’re working with churches, with faith-based communities, with faith-based networks that operate and have already worked with so many of their parishioners in recovery programs,” she said, as The Daily Signal reported.
Carter described the administration’s approach as twofold — cracking down on the supply chains bringing illegal drugs into the United States and on demand — and said working with faith communities across traditions is important to “change the culture of America” and decrease demand, especially among young people, as the interview records. She also explained how the United States is working with other nations, including Mexico and China, against the illicit drug threat, according to The Daily Signal.
Why it matters
This interview is the clearest pre-release statement of the strategy Carter’s office published weeks later: the faith-community pillar, the supply-and-demand pairing, and the culture-change theory of demand reduction are all stated here in her own words, in advance — the baseline the released strategy is measured against on this site.
Scoreboard watch
This is a candidate item for the weekly scoreboard: Carter’s March 25, 2026 preview commitments — a May strategy release with faith communities at its center — each as stated in the interview, to be checked against the National Drug Control Strategy as issued.
Sources: The Daily Signal, “Drug Czar: Trump Admin Makes Faith ‘Center of Our Strategy’ to Combat Narcotics” (interview published March 25, 2026, embedded above). All characterizations as stated by Director Carter and The Daily Signal.
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