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Links
American Psychological Association (APA)
This is the home page for the Division of
Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse of the American Psychological
Association. Of interest to psychologists practicing in the drug abuse
field may be the web site for the
APA College of Professional
Psychology.
The nation's medical specialty society dedicated to
educating physicians and improving the treatment of individuals
suffering from alcoholism or other addictions.
The American Public Health Association (APHA) is the
oldest and largest organization of public health professionals in the
world, representing more than 50,000 members from over 50 occupations of
public health. The Association and its members have been influencing
policies and setting priorities in public health since 1872. See also
the Alcohol, Tobacco and
Other Drugs (ATOD) Section.
The Center for Substance Abuse Research located at the
University of Maryland, provides a weekly fax service on drug abuse
related topics also.
CPDD serves as an interface among governmental,
industrial and academic communities maintaining liaisons with regulatory
and research agencies as well as educational, treatment, and prevention
facilities in the drug abuse field. It also functions as a collaborating
center of the World Health Organization.
The Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study (DATOS) is NIDA's
third national evaluation of treatment effectiveness. It is based on
over 10,000 admissions during 1991-1993 to 96 community-based treatment
programs in 11 large U. S. cities.
The Institute of Behavioral Research (IBR) at TCU
conducts evaluations of drug abuse and addiction services. Special
attention is given to assessing and analyzing individual functioning,
treatment delivery and engagement process, and their relationships to
outcomes. Treatment improvement protocols developed and tested emphasize
cognitive and behavioral strategies for programs in community-based as
well as criminal justice settings. Our people, projects, publications,
and training programs are described, and a variety of data collection
forms are available for downloading.
NAADAC'S mission is to provide leadership in the
alcoholism and drug abuse counseling profession by building new visions,
effecting change in public policy, promoting criteria for effective
treatment, encouraging adherence to ethical standards, and ensuring
professional growth for alcoholism and drug abuse counselors.
The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug
Information (NCADI) is the information service of the
Center for Substance
Abuse Prevention of the U.S.
Department of Health & Human Services. NCADI is the world's largest
resource for current information and materials about alcohol and other
drugs.
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
is one of the most extensive sources of information on criminal and
juvenile justice in the world, providing services to an international
community of policymakers and professionals. NCJRS is a collection of
clearinghouses supporting all bureaus of the U.S. Department of Justice,
Office of Justice Programs: the National Institute of Justice, the
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Bureau of
Justice Statistics, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Office for
Victims of Crime, and the OJP Program Offices. It also supports the
Office of National Drug
Control Policy.
National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI) is a
non-profit research and educational organization founded to advance
scientific knowledge in the areas of drug abuse, HIV, AIDS, therapeutic
communities, related areas of mental and public health, criminal
justice, urban problems, prevention and epidemiology.
The NIH is one of eight health agencies of the
Public Health Services which, in
turn, is part of the U.S.
Department
of Health and Human Services.comprised of 25 separate
Institutes and Centers, NIH has 75
buildings on more than 300 acres in Bethesda, MD. From a total of about
$300 in 1887, the NIH budget has grown to more than $15. 6 billion in
1999.
As the research agency of the Department of Justice, NIJ
supports research, evaluation, and demonstration programs relating to
drug abuse in the contexts of crime and the criminal justice system.
The National Library of Medicine is the world's largest
library dealing with a single scientific/professional topic. It cares
for over 4. 5 million holdings (including books, journal, reports,
manuscripts and audio-visual items).
Also provides
MEDLINEplus, a
gold mine of up-to-date, quality health care information from the
world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine at the
National Institutes of Health.
Since 1984 the Office of Justice Programs has provided
federal leadership in developing the nation's capacity to prevent and
control crime, improve the criminal and juvenile justice systems,
increase knowledge about crime and related issues, and assist crime
victims. Includes the
Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) was
established by Act of Congress in 1988 and is organized within the
Executive Office of the President. ONDCP is authorized to develop and
coordinate the policies, goals, and objectives of the Nation's drug
control program for reducing the use of illicit drugs. ONDCP engages in
activities that both meet the requirements of its authorization and
represent the values and commitments of the President and its Director.
The site includes project summaries, grant application
information, and links to other sites relating to substance abuse. The
goal of the program is to identify, analyze, and evaluate policies
regarding tobacco, alcohol, and drug abuse.
SAMHSA's mission is to assure that quality substance
abuse and mental health services are available to the people who need
them and to ensure that prevention and treatment knowledge is used more
effectively in the general health care system. |
