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Addiction Research Foundation

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Toronto, Canada).
  • Links and research papers.
  • This site is not updated frequently.

Addiction Treatment Forum

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: Landmark, Inc.
  • Complete text for current and back issues of A.T. Forum, a monthly newsletter.
  • News releases about addiction treatment.

American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.
  • Information about the Academy and its annual meeting.
  • Sells tapes of annual meetings.

American Society of Addiction Medicine

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: American Society of Addiction Medicine.
  • Information about the Society, its publications, and conferences.
  • Abstracts from the current issue of Journal of Addictive Diseases.

Center for the Neurobiological Investigation of Drug Abuse

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: Center for the Neurobiological Investigation of Drug Abuse, Wake Forest University.
  • Describes publications and current research projects at the Center.

College on Problems of Drug Dependence

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: College on Problems of Drug Dependence.
  • Policy statements on drug abuse research and treatment.
  • Fact sheets on behavioral, psychosocial, and pharmaceutical treatment approaches to drug use.

DATOS: Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Studies

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: National Institute on Drug Abuse and four collaborating drug abuse research centers.
  • Summarizes a research project on outcomes of treatment provided to a sample of over 10,000 drug abuser clients who received treatment in community-based treatment programs, with long-term follow-up.

Drug and Alcohol Services Information System

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  • Lists state-approved substance-abuse facilities.

Drugtext

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: International Foundation for Drug Policy and Human Rights.
  • Extensive collection of news articles and reports on drug abuse as a social and policy problem; this site is not clinically oriented.

European Association for the Treatment of Addiction

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: European Association for the Treatment of Addiction.
  • Links to European Web sites on addiction research and treatment.

Ibogaine Dossier

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: NDA International (NY).
  • Collection of links to abstracts and articles presenting scientific research about this drug, its hallucinogenic properties, and its claims to alleviate drug dependence.
  • References articles that are pro-, con-, or merely descriptive of the drug and its uses.
  • Good collection of Web sites about drug abuse.

Internet Mental Health: Disorders

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: Vancouver Mental Health Support.
  • Lists a number of substance use disorders, each with clinical description, diagnostic and treatment information, and this site has a link that searches MEDLINE for abstracts concerning the substance.
  • We have included individual pages from this Web site in the sections for some of the substance abuse disorders discussed above.

Join Together Online

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: Boston University School of Public Health.
  • Tracks news items dealing with “hot issues?in substance abuse.

Narcotics Anonymous World Services

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: Narcotics Anonymous.
  • Information about NA, a 12-step program for addicts.
  • Conference reports.
  • Current and back issues of NA’s newsletter.

National Acupuncture Detoxification Association

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: National Acupuncture Detoxification Association.
  • Distributes literature and provides training in using acupuncture for detoxification.
  • Click on “Guidepoints,?then “Links,?for other Web sites dealing with this topic.

National Institute on Drug Abuse

  • Up-to-date information about drugs.
  • Lists scientific meetings, legislation, news releases, and publications about substance use and its treatment.
  • A complete textbook online: Principles of Drug Abuse Treatment: A Research-based Guide.

PREVLINE: Prevention Online

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information.
  • Helpful collection of information and links concerning drugs and drug treatment.
  • Has a unique selection of drug prevention links for different ethnic and cultural groups.

Stanton Peele Addiction Web Site

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: Stanton Peele, J.D., Ph.D.
  • A nonmedical model of addiction: “Addiction is not limited to narcotics, or to drugs at all, and that addiction is a pattern of behavior and experience which is best understood by examining an individual's relationship with his/her world.?
  • Collection of links to articles (by Peele and others) and other Web sites that oppose, criticize, or advocate for an alternative to the disease/12-step model of addiction and recovery.

Steroidabuse.org

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: National Institute on Drug Abuse.
  • Links to research summaries and fact sheets on anabolic steroid abuse.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌs: Inter-university Consortium for Social and Political Research, University of Michigan; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  • Abstracts and raw data from a series of studies on drug abuse and mental health topics.

Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists: Links

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists.
  • Extensive directory of informational Web sites about addiction and substance use, but without descriptions.

Web of Addictions

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: Andrew L. Homer, Ph.D.; Dick Dillon.
  • Valuable directory of links to fact sheets on this site and others about alcohol and many other drugs.
  • Links to Web sites concerning addiction and treatment.