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Appendix C: Online Resources
Club Drugs
This NIDA site provides detailed descriptions and educational materials related to substances classified as "club drugs".
http://www.clubdrugs.org
RXLIST
This site lists the top 300 drugs prescribed in past years and provides links to specific information about each one.
http://www.rxlist.com
Controlling Exposures to Nitrous Oxide During Anesthetic Administration
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/noxidalr.html
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
http://www.samhsa.gov/
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
A searchable database for information related to substance abuse.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA/
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)
NCADI is the world's largest resource for current information and materials concerning substance abuse.
http://www.health.org/
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/
Drug Enforcement Administration
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/index.htm
Food and Drug Administration
http://www.fda.gov/default.htm
National Institute on Drug Abuse
http://www.nida.nih.gov
American Society of Addiction Medicine
"The nation's medical specialty society dedicated to educating physicians and improving the treatment of individuals suffering from alcoholism or other addictions."
http://www.asam.org/
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
A unique think/action tank that brings together under one roof all of the professional disciplines (health policy, medicine and nursing, communications, economics, sociology and anthropology, law and law enforcement, business, religion and education) needed to study and combat all forms of substance abuse.
http://www.casacolumbia.org/
Join Together Online
National resource center and meeting place for communities working to reduce substance abuse (illicit drugs, excessive alcohol & tobacco) and gun violence.
http://www.jointogether.org
The Web of Addictions
Dedicated to providing accurate information about alcohol and drug addiction.
http://www.well.com/user/woa/
Erowid.org
http://www.erowid.org/ is an online library containing thousands of pages of information about psychoactive drugs, plants, and chemicals, including entheogens, psychedelics, etc.
U.S. Department of Labor
The State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Agency Directory contains contact information for all State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Agencies, and provides a link to the Agency's Web site, if one exists. It is provided via the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment's (CSAT) Treatment Improvement Exchange (TIE) Web site.
http://www.dol.gov/asp/programs/drugs/nationalresources/NationalResource-1593.htm
Street Drugs.org
http://www.streetdrugs.org/
National Clearinghouse on Alcohol and Drug Information
NIDA Research Reports, Printed March 2001.
http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/
Healthcare professionals and parents should be aware of drug information that our children can find that instructs them on how to safely use drugs. Two such sites are http://www.erowid.org/ and http://www.tweaker.org/. Warning: this content should be viewed with discretion.
Drugs.com (http://www.drugs.com/) provides a dictionary of prescription drugs along with a pill identifier program.
Nitrous Oxide Safety
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/nitrousoxide/
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/healthguidelines/nitrousoxide/recognition.html
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