Coping Organization
Principles
of Drug and Alcohol Treatment
The
Counsellors Guide
Online
Journals & Newsletters
Addiction
Messenger; Ideas for Treatment Improvement
Free quarterly newsletter of the Northwest Frontier ATTC.
Addiction
Treatment
Forum
Online forum for drug treatment information. Informative articles in
the Forum journal. National conferences and meetings posted here.
Alcohol
Alerts
From the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Alcohol
and Health: Current Evidence
Newsletter from Boston University that provides summaries of the latest
clinically relevant research on alcohol and health. Through its
summaries and other features, the newsletter aims to highlight alcohol
issues and provide valuable information that can be applied in clinical
teaching, practice, and research.
Alcohol
Research & Health
Journal from the
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Harm
Reduction Journal
An Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal whose focus is prevalent
patterns of psychoactive drug use, the public policies meant to control
them, and the search for effective methods of reducing the adverse
medical, public health, and social consequences associated with both
drugs and drug policies.
International
Journal of Drug Testing
New on-line journal with articles such as, "Legal Aspects of Drug
Testing: A Review of Relevant Cases," "Bibliography: Hair Testing for
Drug Cases." Articles are downloadable in Microsoft Word format.
Journal
of Addictive Diseases
The official journal of ASAM, the American Society of Addiction
Medicine. Table of Contents (complete with abstracts) available for
this Journal (in PDF, HTML, or plain text).
Journal
of
Gambling Issues
A full-text online journal, features articles on gambling-related
policy, research, treatment, and the experience of gambling. Free
automated subscriptions available.
Journal
of the
American Medical Association (JAMA)
The primary source for the most up-to-date health
information. Selected articles online.
Journal
of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse
Tables of contents and abstracts of articles in the Journal. Copies of
the articles can be purchased from the publisher.
Morbidity
and
Mortality Weekly Report
Government statistical data on causes of death. Searchable index. The
data in the weekly MMWR are provisional, based on weekly reports to CDC
(Center for Disease Control) by state health departments.
NIDA
Notes
From the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Full text online
Paradigm
Paradigm is a high quality, 24-page magazine for professionals and
individuals interested in addiction-related subjects. Each quarterly
issue contains articles written by the staff of the Illinois Institute
for Addiction Recovery and other experts in the field. Read onlind in
PDF format or send for a free subscriptions.
Prevention
Pipeline
Articles on preventing alcohol, tobacco, and drug use in your
community. From the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug
Information. (NCADI).
Psychiatric
Times
Full text articles. Includes a topic, title, and author index.
Online
Libraries
Search
databases for online material or bibliographic information
Alcohol
and Alcohol
Problems Science Database (ETOH)
This database is from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism. (NIAAA) It covers all aspects of alcohol abuse and
alcoholism, and contains approximately 100,000 records. Included in
ETOH are abstracts and bibliographic references to journal articles,
books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings,
reports and studies, and chapters in edited works. Updated monthly,
ETOH contains research findings from the late 1960s to the present, as
well as historical research literature.
Alcohol
History Database, Rutgers
The Alcohol History Collection provides access to the Alcohol
History Collection at the Alcohol Studies Library of over 500
monographs, pamphlets and journals on the Temperance and Prohibition
movements. It also includes images in the form of drawings, engravings,
photographs, and portraits, in addition to samples of temperance
regalia and banners.
Alcohol
Policy Information System (APIS)
The Alcohol Policy Information System 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.
Behavioral
Health
World for Practitioners
Registration required for full access to site resources. Useful
resource library with a collection of educational and professional
materials and information for client education.
Center
for Alcohol Studies, Rutgers
This database contains over 50,000 citations for journal articles,
books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and
audio-visual materials.
Center
for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) Violence Literature
Database (VioLit)
This database stores bibliographic information and CSPV abstracts of
violence related research and literature. This literature primarily
includes journal articles, books, reports and literature reviews on the
topics related to juvenile violence.
Drugscope
Drug Data database
One of the most comprehensive English language collections on drug use
in the world. The collection spans four decades and contains many hard
to find items, as well as journal articles, reports and books. The
database of over 85,000 records of books, journals, articles, grey
literature, government reports, policy documents and videos concerned
with the illegal drugs and their use is fully searchable both through
the use of designated keywords and through free text searching.
Educational
Resources
Information Center (ERIC)
ERIC is a national information system funded by the U.S. Department of
Education's Institute of Education Sciences to provide access to
education literature and resources.
European
Gateway on Alcohol, Drugs, and Addictions
The mission of this site is to provide the ATOD professionals with a
tool that will help them to quickly find, on the Internet, evaluated
and valuable ATOD information and documents. Articles are in a variety
of European languages.
Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Resource Database
Access to information on thousands of resources, including audiotapes,
books, CD-ROMs, newsletter, magazine, newspaper, and journal articles,
pamphlets and booklets, posters, videos, slide shows, and Web-based
materials.
Hardin
Library for the Health Sciences
At the University of Iowa. Links to UI health databases and indexes,
the UI library catalog, and The Virtual Hospital, the digital health
information resource for health providers and patients.
The
Hazelden Research Library
The Hazelden Library is one of the largest repositories of addiction
resources in the world. Through our Virtual Research Library you can
search our databases of over 10,000 books, videos, and audio tapes to
create your own bibliography.
Legacy
Tobacco
Documents Library (LTDL)
Library contains nearly 7 million documents related to advertising,
manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research of tobacco
products. Visitors can search, view, and download these documents from
the web site.
The
Lindesmith Center Online Library
This site includes an extensive collection of full-text drug and drug
policy-related materials searchable by subject or in its entirety.
Marin
Institute's Alcohol Industry & Policy Database
Contains citations and brief abstracts for over thirteen thousand
articles and news stories about the alcohol beverage industry, alcohol
policy, and prevention efforts. The time period covered is 1991 to the
present.
National
Library of Medicine (NLM) online
databases including:
-
Medline/Pubmed
provides access to bibliographic information which includes MEDLINE as
well as additional life science journals. Audience: health
professionals.
-
Toxicology
Data
Network (TOXNET) has Information
on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, toxicological effects of drugs,
etc.
-
MedlinePlus
is for anyone with a medical question, especially consumers. Both
health professionals and consumers can depend on it for accurate,
current, medical information. This service provides access to extensive
information about specific diseases and conditions and also has links
to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health,
dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in
Spanish, and clinical trials.
National
Substance
Abuse Web Index
This is a search engine that specifically searches the contents of some
of the best substance abuse sites on the web. A list of these sites is
provided. Information on illicit drugs, alcohol, and tobacco are
provided in these websites.
NCADI
- Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Illicit Drug Databases
Links to 10 searchable databases, including Prevention
Materials Database, IDA,
Treatment Resources, NSAWI, ERIC, ETOH, MEDLINE, and SAID.
Policy
Information Exchange (PIE) Online
Provides access to authoritative primary source materials on a wide
range of issues affecting mental health policy in North America. There
are currently 2063 full-text reports in the database.
Project
Cork bibliographic database
Contains references, with abstracts, to over 13,000 journal articles,
books, and book chapters on alcoholism and substance abuse. From
Dartmouth College.
Smoking
and Health database
The database contains over 56,000 abstracts of journal articles, books
handbook chapters, dissertations, reports, conference proceedings and
papers, government documents, policy or legal documents, editorials,
letters, and comments on articles. Sources include the
Journal of the American Medical Association,
and the American Journal of
Public Health.
Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA)
Data and surveys on topics in substance abuse and mental health.
The
University of
Minnesota library has a link to
the DRUGINFO (DRSC) database which covers the educational,
sociological, and psychological aspects of alcohol and drug use and
abuse. It contains bibliographic citations to over 25,000 documents
from 1968-present. (From the library page click on Indexes, then "D" in
the alphabetical listing to get to the DRSC database.)
Virtual
Clearinghouse on Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs (VCATOD)
The Virtual Clearinghouse is a global "virtual library" of information
not easily found elsewhere, and is being built by a partnership of
organizations in Europe, the Americas, Austral-Asia, and Africa. The
web site is trilingual; English, French, Spanish, and the target group
is professionals.
Working
Partners Substance
Abuse Information Database (SAID)
This interactive database provides a one-stop source of information
with summaries and full text of materials relating to workplace
substance abuse issues. Employers can draw on articles from experts as
well as success stories from a variety of industries to assist them in
establishing and maintaining a workplace substance abuse program.
