House Joint Resolution 216 of the 1973 session of the General Assembly directed that the Department of Welfare and Institutions continue, in cooperation with the Division of Drug Abuse Control, its study and development of a plan for the treatment of drug addicts begun under House Joint Resolution 66 of the 1972 session of the General Assembly. The study was expanded to include all elements of the correctional system, State and local, and all offenders, juvenile and adult, who are incarcerated for violations of criminal laws as a result of drug abuse as well as those offenders incarcerated for violations of drug laws.