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Alcohol & Other Drugs of Abuse Web Resources
last modified
2008-07-02
- General
- American Indian and Alaskan Native
- Alcohol
- Marijuana
- Club Drugs (Methamphetamine, Ecstasy, GHB, Rohypnol)
- Inhalants
- Steroids
- Substance Use/Abuse & Oral Health Care
General
- Accu-Chem Laboratories, Ltd.—Provides information on solvent (inhalant) abuse monitoring in juveniles.
- AddictionAction.org—A grassroots partnership working to promote HBO's groundbreaking ADDICTION Project, and help communities mobilize to build on this powerful opportunity to expand public understanding of addiction, treatment, and long-term recovery.
- Adolescent Substance Abuse Knowledge Base—Provides information on identifying the different types of drugs and recognizing signs of drug or alcohol use.
- American Council for Drug Education—Develops programs and materials based on the most current scientific research on drug use and its impact on society.
- CDCs Healthy Youth! Alcohol & Drug Use—Provides general information, data & statistics, and science-based strategies.
- Connecticut Clearinghouse—Provides information on mental health, substance use disorders, prevention and health promotion, treatment and recovery, wellness, and other related topics.
- CSAT Treatment Improvement Protocols—(TIPs) are best practice guidelines for the treatment of substance abuse. CSAT draws on the experience and knowledge of clinical, research, and administrative experts to produce the TIPs. TIPS of interest:
- Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)—Provides information about drug policy, drug information, drug prevention, and publications.
- Early Action Against Teen Drug Use, Teens as Communicators to Their Peers—This 7-lesson educator's guide was developed by the NY Times with sponsorship from the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
- Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association—Provides information on addiction treatment, violence prevention, and special populations.
- freevibe.com—Provides information and resources for teens including the latest news, drug facts, and Share Your Stories.
- Hazelden Books—Provides products and resources on Recovery, Treatment, Criminal Justice, and Prevention.
- Health Youth! Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)—Provides data and statistics on youth risk behaviors.
- Indiana Prevention Resource Center—Provides prevention technical consulting, PREV-STAT" community analysis, library references, survey design and implementation, data collection and reporting, program planning and proposal writing assistance, drug prevention education and training and program administration.
- Join Together—Provides information regarding youth drug use trends.
- Mid-Atlantic The Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Ask the Expert!— Provides evidence based practices for youth with substance use and co-occurring disorders, and a forum for asking questions and receiving answers from developers of and experts in those practices.
- Minnesota Prevention Resource Center—Provides information services, publications and videos, and technical assistance.
- National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence—Provides community prevention and education programs, local media advocacy campaigns, resource centers for literature and audio-visual materials, presentations to raise community awareness at schools, businesses and civic organizations.
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)—Provides information on alcohol abuse and alcoholism, common drugs, drug testing, prevention resources, treatment resources and trends/statistics.
- NIDA for Teens—Provides science-based facts about how drugs affect the brain and body so that kids will be armed with better information to make healthy decisions. Elements such as animated illustrations, quizzes, and games are used throughout the site to clarify concepts, test the visitor's knowledge, and make learning fun through interaction.
- New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services—Releases periodic information on current trends in drug use.
- Ohio Prevention and Education Resource Center—Provides free alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) prevention related materials.
- Parents, The Anti-Drug—Provides resources for youth, parents, caregivers, and educators.
- Partnership for a Drug-Free America—Distributes educational campaigns all forms of media, including TV, radio and print advertisements and over the Internet.
- Safe and Drug Free Schools Program/US Department of Education—Provides overall direction, coordination, and leadership to the following major elements: Health, Mental Health, Environmental Health, and Physical Education, State Drug-Violence Prevention Programs, National Drug-Violence Prevention Programs, Character, Civic, and Correctional Education, and Policy and Crosscutting Initiatives.
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)—Provides information on prevention, treatment, and rehabiliation services resulting from substance abuse and mental illness.
- SAMHSAs Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)—Provides national leadership in the federal effort to prevent alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug problems.
- SAMHSAs Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)—Provides information about effective treatment and recovery services for alcohol and drug problems.
- SAMHSAs Co-Occuring Center for Exellence (COCE)—Provides information about co-occuring mental health and substance use disorders.
- SAMHSAs National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)—Responds to public inquiries and distributes free or low-cost materials that include fact sheets, brochures, pamphlets, monographs, posters, and videotapes (inventory of over 1,000 items).
- Focus on Prevention—A practical guide to successful prevention strategies. Easy-to-read content includes two-page summaries of eleven substance abuse prevention topics and a model timeline for carrying out a prevention activity.
- SAMHSAs National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)—A searchable database of interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders.
- SAMHSAs National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) Report: A Day in the Life of American Adolescents—Substance Use Facts—provides data on first time substance use, receipt of substance abuse treatment, and treatment referral sources “on an average day” for adolescents.
- SAMHSAs Office of Applied Studies—Provides the latest national data on (1) alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other drug abuse, (2) drug related emergency department episodes and medical examiner cases, and (3) the nation's substance abuse treatment system.
- Mental Health & Substance Abuse
- Co-Occuring Mental Disorder & Substance Use
- National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs 2007. Also available is a searchable web version of this Directory the SAMHSA Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator.
- Patterns of Mental Health Service Utilization and Substance Use Among Adults, 2000 and 2001
- Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons With Co-Occurring Disorders Inservice Training—Introduces substance abuse treatment counselors and other practitioners to state-of-the-art treatment for people with both substance use and mental disorders.
- Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Prevention Resources—Provides prevention and youth development resources, data and statistics, and resources and publications.
- Working Partners—Provides information about drug-free workplace, safety and health, substance abuse basics, laws and regulations, statistics, and special issues.
- YouthFirst—Provides resources for youth, caregivers, educators, and businesses to prevent, intervene, and even treat youth substance abuse.
American Indian and Alaskan Native
- National Survey on Drug Use & Health (NSDUH) Report: Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders among American Indians and Alaska Natives—SAMHSAs Office of Applied Studies (OAS) report compares rates of alcohol and illicit drug use as well as substance use disorders among American Indians and Alaska Natives with members of other racial backgrounds.
- Tribal Court Clearinghouse Alcohol and Substance Abuse—Provides documents and web resources for social services personnel handling alcohol and substance abuse cases.
Alcohol
- Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA)—Provides information to adults dealing with dysfunctional family issues.
- Al-Anon—Provides information for the spouses of alcoholics or concerned individuals.
- AlaTeen—Provides information for teenagers coping with alcoholic or drug-using parents or siblings.
- Alcohol Screening.org—Provides an assessment tool of your drinking, learn about alcohol and health issues, and find resources for additional help.
- BACCHUS Network: Alcohol & Impaired Driving—Provides student-friendly training programs, resource manuals, posters, and pamphlets.
- Binge Drinking in Adolescents and College Students—Fact sheet about binge drinking in adolescents and college students.
- College Drinking, Changing the Culture—This site offers resources, publications, and links for educators, health practitioners, peers, parents, and students. Highlights:
- Families Anonymous—Provides information for families coping with a parent or a child who has a problem and who may even be in a recovery program.
- Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)—Provides information about underage drinking, activism, statistics and resources.
- Naked Truth, Alcohol and Your Body—Part of the Facts on Tap website, this section provides information on how alcohol affects behavior . . . includes a quiz and the definition of "one drink."
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)—Supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems; disseminates research finding to health care providers, researchers, policymakers, and the public.
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Stop Impaired Driving—Provides program toolkits, research & statistics, calendar, press room, and additional resources.
- Rational Recovery (RR)—Provides information about self-recovery from alcohol and other drugs.
- Women for Sobriety (WFS)—Provides information for women dealing with alcohol and other addictions.
Club Drugs
- ClubDrugs.org—Provides information and resources on club drugs including Ecstasy, Methamphetamine, GHB, and others.
- Drug Enforcement Agency Methampetamine—Provides information about the effects, facts, news, and getting help.
- Ecstasy: What's All the Rave About? (Myths, Facts, and Illicit Drugs: What You Should Know Series)—This booklet provides useful information on what ecstasy is, what it does, and its appeal and danger; also available as a video.
- Ice Age II: Lessons Learned from Bay County, Florida Methamphetamine Awareness/Training Documentary—This one-hour training documentary focuses on how the illegal manufacturing, use, abuse and trafficking of methamphetamine wreaked havoc on this quiet county in the Panhandle; this video can be ordered as a VHS or viewed online as a webcast.
- KCI The Anti-Meth Site—Provides a reference library, discussion board, letters from readers, and chat room.
- MethResources.gov—Provides information on publications and research, upcoming conferences, prorams, funding, training and technical assistance, and polices and legislation.
- Meth: What's Cooking in Your Neighborhood?—This booklet provides useful information on what methampetamine is, what it does, and its appeal and danger; also available as a video.
- New York State Depart of Health Methamphetamine—Provides a fact sheet and additional web resources.
- NIDA Methamphetamine—Provides information on fact sheets, newsletters, and research reports.
- SAMHSA's The NSDUH Report: Methamphetamine Use—Provides information on trends in methamphetamine use, use by geographic characteristics, and trends in past year initiation of methamphetamine use; the report is available in both HTML and PDF format.
Marijuana
- Debunking the Myths About Marijuana—This seven-minute video, developed by the ONDCP National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, was designed to educate communities about the harms of teen marijuana use.
- Marijuana-info.org—This NIDA-sponsored site contains facts and publications (English and Spanish) on marijuana use among youth.
Inhalants
- National Inhalant Prevention Coalition—Provides inhalant referral and information, develops informational materials, produces ViewPoint (a quarterly newsletter), provides training and technical assistance and leads a week-long national grassroots inhalant education and awareness campaign.
Steroids
- SteroidAbuse.org—Lists publications and resources on anabolic steroids.
Substance Use/Abuse & Oral Health Care
- ADA Methamphetamine Use and Oral Health (Meth Mouth)
- ADA Warns of Methamphetamine's Effect on Oral Health
- Canadian Dental Association Clinical Practice Methamphetamine and Its Impact on Dental Care
- WebMD Methamphetamine Use and Oral Health
- MethfreeTN.org
- Meth Mouth Poster
- Meth Mouth Detection & Prevention Poster
- Order Materials (Brochures, Posters, and Stickers)