Sub-Topics Bath Salts Marijuana Methamphetamines Prevention Risk and Protective Factors Smoking Tobacco Prevention Treatment Also Try Medical in the Reference Section of the Library Nurse's Office Lists Addictions Research Search Engine (ETOH) Searches for research documents. Documents are not available online. Al-Anon and Alateen Alcohol-Related Policies, Bills, and Legislation (NIAAA) "The Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS) is an electronic resource that provides authoritative, detailed, and comparable information on alcohol-related policies in the United States, at both State and Federal levels. Designed primarily as a tool for researchers, APIS is intended to encourage and facilitate research on the effects and effectiveness of alcohol-related policies." 6-03 Papers Alcohol and Other Drugs (NFIA) Provides information for parents and teens. Alcohol and Other Drugs Factsheets (Indiana Prevention Resource Center) Provides basic facts. 1-04 Amphetamine Factsheet (Indiana Prevention Resource Center) Provides basic facts. 1-04 Cafferty: My Battle With Alcoholism (CNN News) "There was a relentless, unspoken tension between us caused by the chemical I was addicted to. Eventually, your personality splits apart; you're living a lie and a scary double life. It requires tremendous mental energy to stay in that game and keep living that lie, all the more so with two young kids in the house bearing witness to the worst of it. You know you're not fooling anyone, least of all your spouse. And as my ability to handle the booze diminished over time, I needed more of it, and it began to consume me. I just wanted to walk through my career and do the drinking; do the marriage and do the drinking; do the parenting and do the drinking. How many drinks do you have at dinner when you go out? Do you drink at home before you go out and have more drinks at dinner? What about after dinner?" 03-09 Children of Alcoholics (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) Provides basic suggestions. Cocaine Factsheet (Indiana Prevention Resource Center) Provides basic facts. 1-04 Editorial: Unhealthy Side Effects of the War on Drugs (Time.com) "June 17 marks the 40th anniversary of President Nixon's declaration of war on drugs, an effort that has cost the U.S. $1 trillion to date. What have we gotten for our investment?" "Not much that's good." 06-11 Healthy People 2000 (Department of Health and Human Services) Provides priority areas, a fact sheet, a midcourse review, a publications list, progress reviews, and the consortium providing leadership for national health promotion and disease prevention. Inhalants (Chudler) Provides articles for teens and younger on the effects of inhalants on the brain and other parts of the body. 5-00. Manual to Combat Truancy National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) (CSAP) National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (SAMHSA) Provides articles and news. 10-09 New Tablet Could Help Smokers Quit (CBS News) "A drug called varenicline may be the answer. The tablets already have been shown to make smoking less rewarding for some. Preliminary work, done in rats, suggests they could do the same for drinking." 07-07 Plan to Reduce Health Disparities for Minorities (National Institute on Drug Abuse) Provides NIDA's plan to reduce the disparities in health for minorities. 10-15-99. Study Links Alcohol and Cancer Risk in Women (PBS News) "Researcher Naomi Allen and her colleagues at the University of Oxford analyzed data from the Million Woman Study, which has been collecting health information from 1.28 million women between ages 50 to 64 since 1996. The researchers wanted to see whether the women's self-reported drinking habits were linked to the 68,775 cases of cancer that developed during the study." "They found that drinking just one alcoholic drink per day increased the risk of breast, liver and rectal cancer. For women who also smoked, drinking increased the risk of mouth and throat cancer as well. The type of alcohol didn't matter -- women who drank only wine increased their risk as much as women who drank other kinds of alcohol." 02-09 Study: War on Drugs a Disaster (Time.com) "The Global Commission on Drug Policy, an organization launched by former Presidents of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico (and whose accomplished 19-member board includes former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, Pakistani feminist activist Asma Jehangir, and, yes, Sir Richard Branson), declared today that the "global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world." Four decades ago, policy makers imagined creating a drug free world through "harsh law enforcement action" that cracked down on drug production and distribution. But the resulting "vast expenditures on criminalization and repressive measures directed at producers, traffickers and consumers" have only led to an expansion of the trade, higher rates of drug consumption, and has created — as seen in places like Mexico or Afghanistan — deadly, volatile new arenas for an illicit industry to sow mayhem." "The commission advocates decriminalizing drug use by those who do no harm to others. Countries that have adopted measures that treat drug users as patients — and not criminals — have, for example, drastically lower rates of HIV-positive needle-users. The public health consequences for decades of ineffective policies are stark and can't be ignored. Governments, the report says, need to stop fretting over false dichotomies of "tough or soft, repressive or liberal" policies and think up a flexible approach that both minimizes "health and social harms" and maximizes "individual and national security." A vital cog of this is decriminalizing and perhaps even legalizing certain drugs, particularly cannabis, and taxing their production and sale." 06-11 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminstration) SAMHSA provides grant and contract opportunities, as well as legislative and other information. 10-09

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