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2009 GW Topics Course:Drug Abuse
Papers from GW Drug Abuse Course
NIDA Phantom Monograph on Pain
NIH "Chantilly Report" on AltMed
Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)
Other Epidemiology
Chronic Pain
OAT (Methadone) Patient Advocacy
Confidentiality (42CFR2)
Addiction Treatment / Prevention
Co-Occurring Disorders
Drug Abuse Medical Complications
Rate Hypothesis (Pk & Reward)
Medical Risk Management & NSEP
Hallucinogens, etc.
Drug Pricing/Costs
Drug Testing
EEO Attorneys
Addiction Research
Drug Policy
Drugs & Pregnancy
Marijuana
GHB/GBL/etc.
Qt Prolongation,TdP,Cardiac&LAAM
Acamprosate
Buprenorphine
Salvia
AA and 12-Step Self Help
Cannabinoid Therapeutics
Self Help (alternative)
MDMA Neurotox (Brain Damage)?
Drug Diversion
PharmacoFacilitatedPsychotherapy
Toxicology (NonBehavioral)
Environmental Health
Bioterrorism
"Weeds"
Botanical Medicine
Herbs & Drug Abuse
Other Diet Supplements
Traditional Healing, Native &etc
Other Nutrition
Naturopathic Medicine (NDs)
Acupuncture & TCM
Homeopathy
Gen Alternative Health(CAM/ACHP)
Osteopathic/Chiroprac/Stretching
Muti-Cultural
Humor/Laughter
Methadone Associated Deaths(MAD)
Medical Organizations
International
Regulatory Bookmarks
History & Politics of AltMed
Holistic Nursing
EMF (Electric & Magnetic Fields)
Cyber-Psychology Mind&Meditation
Placebo/Nocebo
Treatment Behind Bars
Other Mental Health
Other Health/Science Policy
Lymphedema
Other General Health
Internet Utilities & Resources
Other/Misc/orNotYetClassified
Brief History of Medicine
Liver transplant in OAT Patients
Dual Diagnoses
INFORMED CAM CONSENT FORM
Alternative Rx & Public Health
Religion OR Healthcare?
Psychoactive Botanicals
Useful Medical Links
Animal Research
Online Analysis of Drug Data
Alan Trachtenberg, MD
Dr. Trachtenberg
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Alan I. Trachtenberg, MD, MPH, FAAFP, AHG, FNAAOM 

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Patient Education Resources

& Student and Professional Education Resources
2009 GW SPHHS "Topics" course - Substance Abuse: Prevention, Intervention & Public Health /  WebLink
2Create Blog by Dr. Alan Trachtenberg (http://2createyourmd.blogspot.com/) /  WebLink
Full Social Costs of Substance Abuse: detailed spending data for most U.S. states (http://www.jointogether.org/resources/shovelingup/shoveling-up-ii.html) /  WebLink
TOBACCO CESSATION COUNSELING GUIDESHEET (http://www.ohiokepro.com/providers/hospital/telemats/Tobacco_Cessation_Counseling_Guidelines.pdf) /  WebLink
TOBACCO CESSATION COUNSELING GUIDESHEET /  Local PDF

NEWEST Items
I've just discovered my cousin Stanly Glogover's autobiographical website, including our family's experience at Auschwitz (http://www.survivinghitler.com/) /  WebLink
Visiting A Mother's Grave at Auschwitz, by Stanley Glogover (http://www.jstandard.com/index.php/content/item/visiting_a_mothers_grave_at_auschwitz/6513#) /  WebLink
Visiting A Mother's Grave at Auschwitz /  Stanley Glogover (local pdf)
Institute for Objective Measurement (http://www.rasch.org/) Objective measurement is the repetition of a unit amount that maintains its size, within an allowable range of error, no matter which instrument... /  WebLink
Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, a unique free textbook and website, consisting of short chapters relating to many aspects of the interface (http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~culture/contents_complete.htm) /  WebLink
Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention: Evidence and Implications: A White Paper from SAMHSA (http://www.samhsa.gov//matrix2/508SuicidePreventionpaperfinal.pdf) /  WebLink
Leaked documents, including Congressional Research Service Comprehensive collection (http://www.wikileaks.org/) /  WebLink
Policy Data Tool (http://www.policyagendas.org/) /  WebLink
?Know Your Rights? ? Legal Rights of People with Alcohol and Drug Histories and Criminal Records-from the Legal Action Center (LAC) (http://lac.org/index.php/lac/149) /  WebLink
NIDA Information for Medical and Health Professionals - Screening Tools (http://drugabuse.gov/nidamed/screening/) /  WebLink
Children Living with Substance-Dependent or Substance-Abusing Parents: 2002 to 2007 (http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k9/SAparents/SAparents.cfm) /  WebLink
Teen Pregnancy & Related Data by State (http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/state-data/state-profile.aspx?state=maryland) /  WebLink
Resources from Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems, a project of the GWU Center for Integrated Behavioral Health Policy (http://www.ensuringsolutions.org/resources/resources_show.htm?doc_id=335590) /  WebLink

Selected Publications from Alan Trachtenberg
Alternative Health Practices In Mental Health / (Plain Text) Kiresuk TJ, Trachtenberg AI.
Alternative Health Practices In Mental Health /  (PDF file) Kiresuk TJ, Trachtenberg AI.
ALTERNATIVE HEALTH PRACTICES IN ADDICTION TREATMNT /  Boucher, Kiresuk, & Trachtenberg
Medicolegal Death Investigation System: IOM Workshop-8/22/03: Toxicology Issues and Infrastructure (http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3793/4937/6360.aspx) /  WebLink
National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) Local 286 Website (maintained as a public service by Dr. Trachtenberg at http://www.nteu286.medem.com/) /  WebLink
Skin Lesions of Injection Drug Users /  Cagle et al, Implemented as Govt. Pub by Dr. T
Methadone-Associated Mortality: Report of a National Assessment and Background Briefing Paper by A. Trachtenberg & S. Leavitt (http://www.dpt.samhsa.gov/medications/methreports.htm) /  WebLink
Methadone Associated Mortality (SAMHSA publication, Local Copy)  /  WebLink
Bibliography prepared for the NIH Consensus Development Conference on Acupuncture, in Bethesda, MD, November 3-5, 1997 (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/archive/20040823/pubs/cbm/acupuncture.html) /  WebLink
Acupuncture. NIH Consensus Statement 1997 Nov 3-5; 15(5):1-34 (http://consensus.nih.gov/1997/1997Acupuncture107html.htm) /  WebLink
Hepatitis in Opioid Addiction Treatment: Medical Management of Hepatitis Infection and Pharmacologic Therapy for Substance Abuse (http://www.dpt.samhsa.gov/pdf/HepC_draft_monograph_5-8-2006.pdf) /  WebLink
Hepatitis in Opioid Addiction Treatment:  /  (Local Copy) Trachtenberg, Leavitt, et al
Acupuncture, Ch 49 in Lowinson Addiction Text 2004 /  Han, Trachtenberg & Lowinson
Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) Model Policy Guidelines for Opioid Addiction Treatment in the Medical Office (http://buprenorphine.samhsa.gov/model.html) /  WebLink
American Acupuncture: Primary Care, Public Health and Policy-Text of Speech from 1997 NIH Consensus Conference on Acupuncture, Published in American Acupuncturist (http://www.aaaomonline.info/ameracu/vol45.pdf) /  WebLink

Selected Publications by Duchy Trachtenberg
Am J Pub Health: Alternative Health Practices /  Crisis OR Opportunity? by Duchy Trachtenberg, MSW
Role of CAM in Public Health Practice & Training /  BURKE, GINZBURG, COLLIE, TRACHTENBERG & MUHAMMAD
Alternative Therapies and Public Health: Crisis or Opportunity? by Duchy Trachtenberg-AJPH 2002 October; 92(10):1566-67 (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1447279) /  WebLink

Opioid Agonist Treatment (Methadone/LAAM/Bup)
42CFR8 (OTP or "Methadone" Regulations - http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/05dec20031700/edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2003/octqtr/42cfr8.12.htm) /  WebLink
FOR CREDIT: AAAP 8 Hour Buprenorphine Course for Qualification under the Drug Addiction Treatment Act (DATA) of 2000 /  WebLink
New in Annals of Int Med from Krantz et al: Torsade de Pointes [a dangerous ventricular (heart) arhythmia] Associated with Very-High-Dose Methadone. Note: This is probably a very rare, dose-related complication /  WebLink
Consent to Release of Information Under 42CFR2  /  Buprenorphine Patient
Facilities Providing Methadone/LAAM Treatment /  SAMHSA Office of Applied Studies (12/06/2002)
42CFR2 Release Consent for Suboxone Rx /  FDA Approved Information for MD's (Product Label)
Methadone Overdoses, Deaths on Rise in U.S. /  NY Times 2/2/2003
2/9/2003 NY Times on Methadone /  NY Times
AJE article on NM opioid OD Deaths /  Nolte et al.
Methadone, QTp & Torsades de Pointes /  Krantz et al
ARCOS: the DEA's Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System /  WebLink
LAAM: Gone but not Forgotten /  Roxane Laboratories
Methadone Mortality Final Report (local copy) /  SAMHSA Consensus Group (Trachtenberg et al)
Methadone Mortality Final Report - SAMHSA 2004 (http://www.dpt.samhsa.gov/medications/methreports.htm) /  WebLink
Excellent & FREE Web-based CME for Primary Care Providers on Addiction Treatment (http://www.addictioncme.com) /  WebLink
Confusion between methylphenidate and methadone /  FDA
Hepatitis C infection and injection drug use:  /  Thomas F. Kresina, Leonard B Seeff, Henry Francis
New, useful Methadone label (http://www.fda.gov/cder/foi/label/2006/006134s028lbl.pdf) /  WebLink
Fatal Heroin 'Overdose': A Review by Darke, S and Zador, Deborah - Addiction. 1996; 91(12): pp. 1765-1772. (http://www.drugpolicy.org/library/darke2.cfm) /  WebLink
Methadone Mortality ? A Reassessment - Friday, July 20, 2007 ? Washington, DC (http://www.dcprovidersonline.com/catalog.php?event_id=SAMHSA1 ; key= sdfh8h) /  WebLink
Detailed Historical Timline for Opioids (http://opioids.com/timeline/index.html) /  WebLink
FDA: Avoiding Accidental Overdoses when Methadone is Prescribed for Pain (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/psn/transcript.cfm?show=72#3) /  WebLink
The Report of the Methadone Maintenance Treatment Practices Task Force (Canada) (http://www.health.gov.on.ca/english/public/pub/ministry_reports/methadone_taskforce/methadone_taskforce.pdf) /  WebLink
he Report of the Methadone Maintenance Treatment /  Policy Task Force (Canada) local pdf

General Addiction Medicine
Drug & Alcohol Problem Assessment Screening System (Danya International) /  WebLink
Other Drug & Alcohol Screening Instruments /  WebLink
Table of Commonly Abused Drugs /  NIDA
New Ibogaine Program in Mexico /  WebLink
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Ontario, CA) Resources /  WebLink
Website of Elizabeth F. Howell, MD, President-Elect , ASAM /  WebLink
A CONVERSATION WITH | NORA VOLKOW (NIDA Director): NY Tmes 8/19/ 2003 Science Section /  WebLink
UN Report on Terminology and Definitions of Drugs & Abuse: http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/report_1998-10-01_1.html /  WebLink
Controlled Substance Schedules & DEA info (http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/index.html) /  WebLink
AAFP/NIDA Monograph on Diagnosis & Treatment of Drug Abuse in Family Practice (http://www.nida.nih.gov/Diagnosis-Treatment/diagnosis.html) - by Trachtenberg & Fleming  /  WebLink
(LOCAL COPY) /  WebLink
World Health Organization > (WHO) sites > Substance abuse home (http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/en/) /  WebLink
WHO > Substance abuse home > Publications (http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/psychoactives/en/) /  WebLink
NIDA Meeting Summary: Psychoactive Botanical Products Workshop: (http://www.drugabuse.gov/whatsnew/meetings/psychoactivemtgsumm.html) /  WebLink
Research on Anti-Drug Advertisements (http://www.utexas.edu/features/archive/2004/anti_drug_ads.html) /  WebLink
Legal Issues for Outpatient Drug Treatment (TIP 8; Ch 7 - http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/govpubs/bkd139/8i.aspx) /  WebLink
Skin Lesions of Drug Injection /  CSAT (local Copy)
Nicotine Dependence: Treatment / NIH
Prescription Drug Addiction ( from the Primary care Network at: http://www.primarycarenet.org/issues/04-July2004%20PI.pdf) /  WebLink
MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE /  Stein, MD. Psych Clin Nor Amer 1999. 22; 351-70.
SAMHSA/CSAP Medical Review Officer Manual (http://dwp.samhsa.gov/DrugTesting/Level_1_Pages/HHS%20MRO%20Manual%20(Effective%20November%201,%202004).aspx) /  WebLink
Special Issue on Syringe Access Internationally /  Substance Use & Misuse, 2006, Vol. 41, Issue 6-7,
Excellent Free CME on Addictions and on Mental Health (http://www1.addictioncme.com/) /  WebLink
TIP 45. Detoxification and Substance Abuse Treatment w/Comments on Acupuncture (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat5.chapter.85279) /  WebLink
Increasing Cultural Sensitivity Of the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) An Example With Native Americans in North Dakota (http://www.tresearch.org/resources/pubs/01_ASI-ND_Paper.pdf) /  WebLink
Drug Policy Lib rary online collections of journal articles, reports, books, testimonies and fact sheets that focus on drugs and drug policy (http://www.drugpolicy.org/library/) /  WebLink
Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) Alcohol Policies webpage (http://www.cspinet.org/alcohol/) /  WebLink
CSAT Advisory on Alcohol Biomarkers (http://kap.samhsa.gov/products/manuals/advisory/pdfs/0609_biomarkers.pdf) /  WebLink
Adverse Reactions to Hallucinogenic Drugs /  NIMH Conference 9/29/1967 in Chevy Chase, MD
Evidence-Based Consensus Stds: Rx of Substance Use /  National Quality Forum-2007 (local copy)
Evidence-Based Consensus Stds: Rx of Substance Use (http://www.qualityforum.org/pdf/reports/sud/sudexesummary.pdf) /  WebLink
http://www.moderation.org/ /  WebLink
Maryland Community Services Locator (MDCSL): a tool to find local Maryland programs and resources (http://www.mdcsl.org/) /  WebLink
SAMHSA: Alcohol, Medication and Older Adults (http://pathwayscourses.samhsa.gov/aaap/aaap_intro.htm) /  WebLink
Antiquated Drug Ads and drug packaging photos (http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/medicineshow.html) /  WebLink
Resources to Help Parents Deal with Teen Stress (http://www.cadca.org/CoalitionsOnline/article.asp?id=2133) /  WebLink
Effects of Beverage Alcohol Price and Tax Levels on Drinking: A Meta-Analysis by RWJ of 1,003 Estimates from 112 Studies (http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=37409) /  WebLink
Controlled Substance Scheduling Actions in Chronological Order, 1970-present, from DEA (http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/actions/chronlogical.htm) /  WebLink
Columbia U. Video Symposium on Drug Addiction Treatment (http://cait.cpmc.columbia.edu:88/dept/video/topics.html) /  WebLink

Other GWU SPHHS Drug Abuse Course Resources
Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade Online Dictionary (http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/drug-slang.aspx) /  WebLink
Kathleen Sciacca's DUAL DIAGNOSIS WEBSITE: Mental Illness, Drug Addiction and Alcoholism, MIDAA(R), MICA /  WebLink
Joint letter on syringe distribution /  Washington State Health Dept& Pharmacy Board et al
Virtual Library on Drug Abuse: A collection of links to more than 1000 papers (full-text) /  WebLink
Joint Statement on Syringe Disposal /  AMA, ASTHO, APhA, et al.
Addiction Screening  /  AHRQ/US Preventive Services Taskforce
Heroin in the 21st Century /  Caron Foundation
Opioid Analgesic Regulation /  PharmD CE
Florida Drug Deaths: Final Report 2002 /  State of Florida
World Health Organization (WHO) > Health topics > Substance abuse (http://www.who.int/health_topics/substance_abuse/en/) /  WebLink
Neurocience of Addiction /  WHO 2004
Maintenance therapy of opioid Addiction 2004 /  WHO/UNODC/UNAIDS
Pictorial on Skin Lesions of Drug Injection (http://kap.samhsa.gov/products/brochures/pdfs/SkinLesionchart.pdf) /  WebLink
'Web Research Guide' to help students, faculty members, authors and research scientists find the information they need on the Web (http://www.webresearch.sciencedirect.com/) /  WebLink
MICROGRAM JOURNAL from the DEA: (http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/forensicsci/microgram/journals_index.html) /  WebLink
Addiction Severity Index (ASI) (http://www.tresearch.org/resources/instruments.htm) /  WebLink
Recovery Month Webcast Series from CSAT/NCADI (http://www.recoverymonth.gov/2005/multimedia/webcastmenu.aspx)  /  WebLink
Federal Drug Data Sources (http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/sources.html) /  WebLink
Prevention Program Evaluation Cycle (CSAP) /  WebLink
CSAP Early Intervention Video (http://preventionpathways.samhsa.gov/res_videos.htm) /  WebLink
Medical Review Officer Manual (Urine Testing) /  WebLink
Congressional Hearing on Harm Reduction, 2/16/2005 (http://reform.house.gov/CJDPHR/Hearings/EventSingle.aspx?EventID=22570) /  WebLink
Comprehensive Compilation of American Drug Laws (by Mark Eddy) (http://reform.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Domestic%20Drug%20Law%20Compilation.pdf) /  WebLink
Drug Prevention Programs and the Fiscal Year 2006 Drug Control Budget: Is the Federal Government Neglecting Illegal Drug Use Prevention? Congressional Hearing Apr 26, 2005  /  WebLink
Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility (IOM-2004)(http://www.nap.edu/books/0309089352/html/) /  WebLink
WISQARSTM (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System from) is an interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data. (http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/default.htm) /  WebLink
NIDA Research Report on Inhalant abuse (http://www.drugabuse.gov/ResearchReports/Inhalants/Inhalants.html) /  WebLink
TIP 32: Treatment of Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders (from CSAT) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat5.section.56219) /  WebLink
TIP 31: Screening and Assessing Adolescents for Substance Use Disorders (from CSAT) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat5.section.55052) /  WebLink
the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (http://www.acudetox.com/faq.htm) /  WebLink
What is the evidence of the Effectiveness for Acupuncture in Drug Abuse? (http://www.acupuncture.org.uk/content/Library/pdf/addiction_bp7.pdf) /  WebLink
Alanon/Alateen (http://www.al-anon.org/) /  WebLink
GW Writing Center (http://www.gwu.edu/~gwriter/) /  WebLink
UW/ADAI Bibliographies on Substance Abuse (http://lib.adai.washington.edu/biblist.htm) /  WebLink
IOM: NEW TREATMENTS FOR ADDICTION-Behavioral, Ethical, Legal, and Social Questions- 2004 (http://newton.nap.edu/catalog/10876.html) /  WebLink
IOM: Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance Use-2006 (http://newton.nap.edu/catalog/11470.html) /  WebLink
SAMHSA Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator (http://www.findtreatment.samhsa.gov/) /  WebLink
The relative risks and etiologic fractions of different causes of death and disease attributable to alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use in Canada (http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/162/12/1669)  /  WebLink
Overdose Prevention/Harm Reduction /  Drug Policy Alliance
Examining Drug Use Surveys and Statistics, Sources & Problems (Erowid: http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/statistics/statistics_article1.shtml) /  WebLink
New bill introduced to reduce deaths from overdose /  Durbin
AddictionCME: Free Medical Tutorials on Addictions (but have to pay if CME credit is Desired) (http://www1.addictioncme.com/TopicReq?id=637) /  WebLink
Medscape Addiction Resource Center (http://www.medscape.com/resource/addiction) /  WebLink
Table of Psychoactive Substances Classes & Effects /  WHO
12-Step Recovery Program for Dual-Diagnosed Patients (http://www.doubletroubleinrecovery.org/professionals.htm) /  WebLink
Medical Consequences of Alcohol (http://alcoholstudies.rutgers.edu/onlinefacts/medconseq.html) /  WebLink
WHO Terminology & classification of Drug Abuse (http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/terminology/en/) /  WebLink
Senate Hearing on Prescription Drug Abuse and Diversion: The Role of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs 9/23/04 (http://help.senate.gov/Hearings/2004_09_23/2004_09_23.html) /  WebLink
DEA Photo-Library of Drugs of Abuse (http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/multimedia.html) /  WebLink
Project Cork Powerpoint Presentations on Drug Abuse (http://www.projectcork.org/powerpoint_presentations/) /  WebLink
The Drug Approval and Scheduling Process /  FDA
Selected Federal Agency Drug Information Sources /  Vicki L. Tate
Sensitive Search of All DHHS Websites for Drug Abuse Statistics & Data-HHS Data Council Gateway (http://www.hhs-stat.net/scripts/topic.cfm?id=335) /  WebLink
Specific Search of All DHHS Websites for Drug Abuse Information (http://www.hhs-stat.net/scripts/searchresult.cfm?search=Drug+Abuse&image.x=13&image.y=13) /  WebLink
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA) (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA/) /  WebLink
CDC's BRFSS: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/index.htm) /  WebLink
CDC's YRBSS: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/index.htm) /  WebLink
NIJ (National Institute of Justice: Drug Courts:The Second Decade (http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/211081.pdf) /  WebLink
2000 Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM/DUF): Annual Report (http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/193013.pdf) /  WebLink
NIMH's NCS: National Comorbidity Survey (http://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/ncs/index.php) /  WebLink
From NIMH: Questions and Answers about the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/healthinformation/qanda_ncs-r.cfm) /  WebLink
Petrakis et al: Comorbidity of alcoholism and psychiatric disorders: an overview (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CXH/is_2_26/ai_95148608) /  WebLink
"Web of Addictions" Resources (http://www.well.com/user/woa/sitesadi.htm) /  WebLink
Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) Survey of Mental Disorders (http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/08993.xml) /  WebLink
Resources for Co-occurring Addiction and Personality Disorders (http://www.toad.net/~arcturus/dd/ddhome.htm) /  WebLink
Dual Diagnosis Factoids and Resources (http://www.nyu.edu/odae/dualdiagnosis.html) /  WebLink
Department of Transportation (DOT) Office of Drug & Alcohol Policy & Compliance (http://www.dot.gov/ost/dapc/) /  WebLink
NEW July, 2006: Special Issue on Syringe Access & International Perspectives, in Substance Use & Misuse, 2006, Vol. 41, Issue 6-7, p. 771 - 776  /  WebLink
Vaccine for Nicotine Addiction: A Phase-2 NIDA Clinical Trial (http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00318383) /  WebLink
The Lycaeum: Where the academic community and the drug using community compare notes-Very specific information on psychoactive drugs and plants (http://www.lycaeum.org/) /  WebLink
See also: Erowid (http://www.erowid.org/) /  WebLink
Alcohol Surveillance Reports/Epidemiologic Data from NIAAA (http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/Publications/EpidemiologicManuals/default.htm) /  WebLink
National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) (http://niaaa.census.gov/) /  WebLink
International Harm Reduction Association (http://www.ihra.net/) /  WebLink
Comprehensive List of Drug Abuse Resources from NIDA (http://www.drugabuse.gov/OtherResources.html) /  WebLink
NEW from NIDA: Principles of Drug Abuse Treatment for CRIMINAL JUSTICE POPULATIONS: A Research Based Guide (http://www.nida.nih.gov/drugpages/cj.html) /  WebLink
SAFETY FIRST: reality-based drug education by Marsha Rosenbaum, PhD (http://www.safety1st.org/) /  WebLink
SAFETY FIRST:reality-based drug education (local)  /  Marsha Rosenbaum, PhD
NIDA Evidence-Based Approaches to Drug Abuse Counseling (http://www.nida.nih.gov/ADAC/ADAC1.html) /  WebLink
DOT-National Center for Statistics & Analysis (http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-30/ncsa/) /  WebLink
Medscape on Using Motivational Interviewing to Promote Patient Behavior Change and Enhance Health (http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/5757?sssdmh=dm1.209176&src=0_tp_nl_0#) /  WebLink
GAO on ONDCP MEDIA CAMPAIGN: Contractor?s National Evaluation Did Not Find That the Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign Was Effective in Reducing Youth Drug Use (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06818.pdf) /  WebLink
Partnership for a Drug Free America (PDFA) responds to GAO (http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/DrugIssue/News/campaign_effectiveness) /  WebLink
The Psychonaut 2002 is a Project for searching the Internet for drug-related websites (http://www.p2002.sgul.ac.uk/contents.html) /  WebLink
Addiction 9/2006 - Vol. 101 Issue s1 Page 1-173 Diagnostic Issues & Comorbidity (http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/add/101/s1?cookieSet=1) /  WebLink
Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/curriculum/index2.htm) /  WebLink
The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/arrests/index.html) /  WebLink
Publications on Alcohol from NIAAA (http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/Publications/) /  WebLink
NHTSA Impaired Driving (Drugs & Alcohol) Safety Program /  WebLink
2007 NIDA booklet for the public on drug addiction (http://www.nida.nih.gov/scienceofaddiction/) /  WebLink
Local PDF: The Science of Addiction /  NIDA 2007
What?s in a Word? Addiction Versus Dependence in DSM-V by O'Brien, Volkow & Li - Am J Psych 163:764-765, May 2006 (http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/163/5/764) /  WebLink
United Nations World Drug Report 2006 (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/world_drug_report.html) /  WebLink
UN International Narcotics Control Board & the International Conventions on Drugs (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/incb.html) /  WebLink
UN Technical Report on VOLATILE SUBSTANCE ABUSE (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/technical_series_1997-01-01_1.html) /  WebLink
Local Copy: VOLATILE SUBSTANCE ABUSE (Pages 1-15) /  UN Technical Report
NIAAA: Craving Research: Implications for Treatment (http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa54.htm) /  WebLink
www.substanceabuseprevention.org - A virtual Community for Drug Prevention /  WebLink
Alcohol and Sexual Assault (http://www.athealth.com/Practitioner/ceduc/alc_assault.html) /  WebLink
Alcohol and Sexual Assault (http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh25-1/43-51.htm) /  WebLink
Violence and Alcohol and Other Drug Use on Campus (http://www.higheredcenter.org/pubs/factsheets/fact_sheet1.html) /  WebLink
FACT SHEET ON FAMILY VIOLENCE AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE (http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ncfv-cnivf/familyviolence/html/fvsubstance_e.html) /  WebLink
ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHY Sexual Abuse and Addiction (http://alcoholstudies.rutgers.edu/library/sexualabuse.html) /  WebLink
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh25-1/toc25-1.htm (http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh25-1/3-4.htm) /  WebLink
Predictive factors for illicit drug use among young people: a literature review (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/rdsolr0507.pdf) /  WebLink
RAND Drug Policy Research Center (http://www.rand.org/multi/dprc/) /  WebLink
Substance Abuse Policy Research Program?s "Knowledge Assets" website (http://www.saprp.org/KnowledgeAssets/Knowledge.cfm) /  WebLink
Moderation Management (http://www.doctordeluca.com/Library/AbstinenceHR/AnalysisMmControversy03.htm) /  WebLink
Dr. Alexander DeLuca's Slide Library: Addiction, Pain, & Public Health (http://www.doctordeluca.com/slides.htm) /  WebLink
SAMHSA Guide To Evidence-Based Practices (EBP) on The Web (http://www.samhsa.gov/ebpwebguide/index.asp) /  WebLink
Treatment of tobacco dependence: integrating recent progress into practice by Le Foll et a;l (http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/177/11/1373) /  WebLink
Drug and Alcohol Findings (UK): bridges the divide between research on the effectiveness of responses to drug and alcohol problems and the practitioners who provide those interventions (http://findings.org.uk) /  WebLink
Assessing Drug Abuse Within and Across Communities: Community Epidemiology Surveillance Networks on Drug Abuse (http://www.drugabuse.gov/pubs/assessing/) /  WebLink
Animal Experiments In Addiction Science (http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_notes/NNvol20N5/Reference.html ) /  WebLink
Impacts of Drugs on Neurotransmission (http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_notes/NNvol21N4/Impacts.html) /  WebLink
Substance Use Screening & Assessment Instruments Database (http://lib.adai.washington.edu/instruments/) /  WebLink
Urban Institute Report on Drug Courts:Evidence on the Prospects of Expanding Treatment to Drug-Involved Offenders (http://www.urban.org/publications/411645.html) /  WebLink
Child Welfare Information Gateway Page on Substance Abuse (http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/service_array/substance/overview/) /  WebLink
Alcohol and Other Drug Problems among Hospitalized Trauma Patients: Controlling Complications, Mortality, and Trauma Recidivism-Conference Proceedings (http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/Spotlight/JrnTraumaSupl.htm) /  WebLink
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study (http://www.acestudy.org/) /  WebLink
CSAP's National Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies Resources for Evidence-Based Prevention Programs (http://captus.samhsa.gov/national/resources/evidence_based.cfm) /  WebLink
Consumers Union Classic 1972 Report - Licit and Illicit Drugs (http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cumenu.htm) /  WebLink
National Conference of State Legislators Audioconference Series: Exploring Recovery-Based Care for Addiction (http://www.ncsl.org/programs/pubs/ncslwebinars.htm) /  WebLink
The Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions (DEBI) project was designed to bring science-based, community, group, & individual-level HIV prevention interventions (http://www.effectiveinterventions.org/) /  WebLink
Gulf Coast Addiction Technology Transfer Center (http://www.utexas.edu/research/cswr/gcattc/) /  WebLink
UN World Drug Report 2007 (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/world_drug_report.html) scroll down to bottom for table of contents and links /  WebLink
WHO's Expert Committee on Drug Dependence most recent report (2006)Index of drugs of interest is on page 5 (http://whqlibdoc.who.int/trs/WHO_TRS_942_eng.pdf) /  WebLink
Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention (SBI) for Trauma Patients (http://download.ncadi.samhsa.gov/prevline/pdfs/SMA07-4266.pdf) /  WebLink
Index to Street Drugs (http://www.streetdrugs.org/) /  WebLink
Reducing Wait Time Improves Treatment Access, Retention (SAMHSA News, Sept/Oct 2007) (http://www.samhsa.gov/SAMHSA_News/VolumeXV_5/article1.htm) /  WebLink
Drugs of Abuse and the Aging Brain; Neuropsychopharmacology (2008) 33, 209?218. (http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v33/n2/full/1301412a.html) /  WebLink
Drugs of Abuse & the Aging Brain; Neuropsychopharm /  NIDA (local pdf)
Alcohol and other Drugs in a Public Health Context. by ROBIN ROOM /  WebLink
CSAP courses including evaluation and substance abuse in elders (http://pathwayscourses.samhsa.gov/courses.htm#eval201) /  WebLink
Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap Initiative (http://www.soros.org/initiatives/treatmentgap) /  WebLink
The Next Drug Czar & the War on Outdated Rhetoric; by Victor Capoccia, PhD, Director, Closing the Tx Gap (http://www.soros.org/initiatives/treatmentgap/articles_publications/articles/capoccia_20090302) /  WebLink
Responding to Substance Exposed Newborns-Policies & Practices (http://aia.berkeley.edu/media/pdf/rwj_report.pdf) /  WebLink
Responding to Substance Exposed Newborns-Policies  /  National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Ctr
Literature Review: Effects of Prenatal Substance E /  National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Ctr
EFFECTS OF PRENATAL SUBSTANCE EXPOSURE ON INFANT AND EARLY CHILDHOOD OUTCOMES (http://aia.berkeley.edu/media/pdf/prenatal_substance_exposure_review.pdf) /  WebLink
Assessing and Supporting Parenting in Families Affected by Substance Abuse or HIV-2007 (http://aia.berkeley.edu/media/pdf/parenting_guide.pdf) /  WebLink
The Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (https://www.niatx.net) /  WebLink
One in 31: The Long Reach of American Corrections, a 2009 Pew Center Report (http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/report_detail.aspx?id=49382) /  WebLink
The Pew Public Safety Performance Project (http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/initiatives_detail.aspx?initiativeID=31336) /  WebLink
One in 100: Behind Bars in America: A 2008 Pew Report (http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/uploadedFiles/8015PCTS_Prison08_FINAL_2-1-1_FORWEB.pdf) /  WebLink
Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence from BU (http://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/index.html) /  WebLink
Drug Slang Dictionary (http://www.noslang.com/drugs/dictionary.php) /  WebLink
How Do We know We Are Making a Difference? Indicator Reporting Methods for Community Drug Programs (http://www.indicatorshandbook.org/index.html) /  WebLink
Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update includes new, effective treatments for tobacco dependence and the latest information to help people QUIT (http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/default.htm) /  WebLink
Kaiser Family Foundation Online Tool Providing Easy Access to the Latest Health Policy Facts and Data (http://facts.kff.org/) /  WebLink
The National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) (http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/AA70/AA70.htm) /  WebLink
NIAAA on ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO (http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/AA71/AA71.htm) /  WebLink
Child Welfare Information Gateway on Substance Abuse (http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/service_array/substance/) /  WebLink
Alcohol and Other Drug Problems among Hospitalized Trauma Patients: Controlling Complications, Mortality, and Trauma Recidivism (http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/Spotlight/JrnTraumaSupl.htm) /  WebLink
The Impact of Street Drugs on Trauma Care by Charles E. Lucas, MD, FACS (http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/Spotlight/section2S43-75.pdf#page=15) /  WebLink
National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/Ndacan/Useful_Links.html) /  WebLink
Underage Alcohol Use: Findings from the 2002-2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) (http://oas.samhsa.gov/underage2k8/toc.htm) /  WebLink
Strong Sanctions on Fake IDs Limit Drunk Driving Deaths among Teens (http://www.saprp.org/m_press_fell070108.cfm) /  WebLink
Policy Brief: DUI Policy (http://www.saprp.org/KnowledgeAssets/knowledge_brief.cfm?KAID=8) /  WebLink
Abstinence following Alcohol Drinking Produces Depression-Like Behavior and Reduced Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Mice ( http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/npp200890a.html) /  WebLink
SAMHSA's new Homelessness Resource Center (HRC) Web site (http://homeless.samhsa.gov/Default.aspx) /  WebLink
expert presentations are available as resources on co-occurring disorders (COD) (http://www.coce.samhsa.gov/products/cod_presentations.aspx) /  WebLink
Best biomarkers for underreported alcohol use (http://2createyourmd.blogspot.com/2009/03/best-biomarkers-for-underreported.html) /  WebLink
Development of a rational scale to assess the harm /  David Nutt, Leslie A King, William Sau (local pdf)
Addiction as a Chronic Disorder, White WL, McClellan, AT, July, 2008 (http://www.comproviders.com/files/Addiction-as-a-Chronic-Disorder.pdf) /  WebLink
Screening and Brief Intervention: Making a Public Health Difference, from Join Together (http://www.jointogether.org/resources/2009/screening-and-brief.html) /  WebLink
Co-occurring Disorders Partnership Program, Hazelden (http://www.cooccurring.org/public/index.page) /  WebLink
Substance Abuse Information from the Partnership For a Drugfree America (http://www.drugfree.org/#) /  WebLink
Thesis: Factors that influence youth use of tobacco and of preventive mechanisms; pecific aims included the relation between Tobacco Free Duo program (http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-21239) /  WebLink
Partners for Recovery (PFR) Resources & Webinars (http://pfr.samhsa.gov/resources.html) /  WebLink
Fixing a Failing System: 6 recommendations of a 1995 policy panel focusing on how the criminal justice system could better aid Drug abusers (http://www.jointogether.org/resources/fixing-a-failing-system.html) /  WebLink
Maryland Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), 2005-2007 (http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/NR/rdonlyres/707B5FB5-9A0C-4A06-A741-92D16DC7B2E7/18502/2007_MD_YRBS_Report_Oct_1.pdf) /  WebLink
Washington, DC-Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), 1997-2007 (http://www.k12.dc.us/offices/oss/hivaids/yrbs.htm) /  WebLink
Youth Online: Comprehensive Results of the YRBSS by state & year (http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/yrbss/index.asp) /  WebLink

Web-Based Help for Getting Grants
"ResearchAssistant" Grant Writing Tutorial for Drug Abuse Related Grants /  WebLink
Toolkit: National Library of Medicine Internet Connections for Health Institutions Grant Application /  WebLink
Developing and Writing Grant Proposals (from the CATALOG OF FEDERAL DOMESTIC ASSISTANCE (CFDA Appendix VI) - http://aspe.hhs.gov/cfda/ia6.htm /  WebLink
Web-Based short course on Grant Proposal Writing (From the Foundation Center): http://fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html /  WebLink
Grants and Federal Domestic Assistance Page from Rep Chris Van Hollen (MD-Dist. 8): http://www.house.gov/vanhollen/GFDAssistance.shtml /  WebLink
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant Program at NIH ( a set-aside program (2.5% of an agency's extramural budget) for domestic small business): http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/funding/sbir.htm /  WebLink
Certificates of Confidentiality from NIH /  WebLink
NIDA SBIR page: http://www.drugabuse.gov/Funding/SBIR_STTR.html /  WebLink
DHHS GrantsNet (http://www.hhs.gov/grantsnet/) /  WebLink
Resources in Urban Health from the The Institute on Urban Health Research (http://www.iuhr.neu.edu/resources.html) /  WebLink
Meta-MetaSearch (http://tinyurl.com/27u8j) I never met a metasearch I didn't engine  /  WebLink
The Community Tool Box to support your work in promoting community health: Learn a skill; Plan the work; Solve a problem; Connect with others! (http://ctb.ku.edu/) /  WebLink
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH), a nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions (http://www.ccph.info/) /  WebLink
Grantmakers In Health (http://www.gih.org/) /  WebLink
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is a set-aside program (2.5% of an agency's extramural budget) for domestic small business concerns (http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/funding/sbir.htm) /  WebLink
The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC - http://www.servicelearning.org/) /  WebLink
THE single access point for grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies: (http://www.grants.gov/) /  WebLink
Attention ALL Grant Applicants: The DUNS Number Requirement (Q&A at http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/1794/1/47/) /  WebLink
What is the US Public Health Service? (http://www.nhpf.org/pdfs_basics/Basics_PHS.pdf) /  WebLink

Research Tools
Pharmacogenetic Knowledge Base: PharmGKB is an integrated resource about how variation in human genes leads to variation in our response to drugs.  /  WebLink
Glossary of Epidemiology Terms / CDC
Visual/Graphical Search Engine - "www.KartOO.com" /  WebLink
FDA Dockets Management (DM), NEW HOME PAGE: serves as the official repository for the administrative proceedings and rule-making documents for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) /  WebLink
"Gopher Central": Email newsletters on a zillion topics, much humor (http://www.gophercentral.com/) /  WebLink
CIA World Fact Book (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html) /  WebLink
Combined Health Info Database (CHID) a cooperative effort among several Federal agencies, with Govt. Publications on TOPICS including Alternative Medicine, MCH & other hard-to-find areas (http://chid.nih.gov/) /  WebLink
WIKIPEDIA - Free Online Encyclopedia /  WebLink
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce helps the public health workforce find and use information effectively to improve and protect the public's health.(http://phpartners.org/) /  WebLink
*EPI*INFO* - tools from CDC for epidemiologists and other health professionals to rapidly develop questionnaires, forms, customize data entry and run statistics (http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/) /  WebLink
BIOETHICS Resources on the Web (from NIH): (http://www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics/) /  WebLink
Looksmart's "Find Articles" Research Tools (http://www.findarticles.com/) /  WebLink
Pathology Library (http://pathweb.uchc.edu/) /  WebLink
Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) Guidance on Research Involving Coded Private Information or Biological Specimens 8/10/2004 (http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/cdebiol.pdf) /  WebLink
Statistical Tools including P value Between Two Independent Percents (market research-http://www.insightexpress.com/ix/calculators/TwoIndPercents.asp) /  WebLink
Community-Based Participatory Research (http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/commbas.html) /  WebLink
Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations! and FREE statitical software (http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html) /  WebLink
Beckman Institute (City of Hope) Instruments for Pain Research (http://www.cityofhope.org/prc/res_inst.asp) /  WebLink
International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care: Pain and Palliative Care Instruments (http://www.hospicecare.com/resources/pain-research.htm) /  WebLink
Education Resources Information Center (www.eric.ed.gov)-searchable /  WebLink
PubMed Central, A free NIH archive of life sciences journals (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/) /  WebLink
NHLBI Clinical Research Guide (http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/crg/index.php) /  WebLink
UCSF Training in Clinical Research (http://www.epibiostat.ucsf.edu/courses/schedule/index.html) /  WebLink
Web Guide to Research for Undergraduates (WebGuru) (http://www.webguru.neu.edu/index.php) /  WebLink
California Brief Multicultural Competence Scale /  Gamst et al. local pdf
Federal R&D Project Summaries: Search across scientific databases of federal research and development project summaries. With a single query, discover what is happening (http://www.osti.gov/fedrnd/index) /  WebLink
Research Tools from KaiserEDU.org help connect you to a range of online resources in health policy(http://www.kaiseredu.org/research_index.asp) /  WebLink

Public Health Tools and Training
The Legal Basis of Public Health & other CDC web-based training from CDC's Public Health Training Network (PHTN) (http://www2.cdc.gov/phtn/legal-basis/mainmenu.asp) /  WebLink
CDC Public Health Image Library (http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp) /  WebLink
CDC/ATSDR Training and Continuing Education Online (http://www2a.cdc.gov/phtnonline/) /  WebLink
CDC self-study: Principles of Epidemiology /  WebLink
WISQARS-CDC's Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System): an interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data. (http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/) /  WebLink
The Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy (http://www.defendingscience.org/index.cfm) /  WebLink
Part1: Law as a Tool for Preventing Chronic Diseases: Expanding the Spectrum of Effective Public Health Strategies (http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2004/jan/03_0033.htm) /  WebLink
Part 2: Law as a Tool for Preventing Chronic Diseases: Expanding the Spectrum of Effective Public Health Strategies (http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2004/apr/04_0009.htm) /  WebLink
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Photo/Image Gallery: Photos and images provided on this site are in the public domain and cannot be copyrighted. (http://www.hhs.gov/news/imagelibrary/index.html) /  WebLink
CDC?s Public Health Law Program has developed this new, foundational course on public health law as a learning resource for public health practitioners, students, and others. (http://www2a.cdc.gov/phlp/phl101/) /  WebLink

Drug Product Tools
Drug Interactions via Cytochrome P450 /  WebLink
FDA ORANGE BOOK: What's in that drug product and what's it equivalent to? /  WebLink
Latest Info on Common Adverse Drug Events: http://www.worstpills.org/ /  WebLink
What's This Pill? (http://www.rxlist.com/) /  WebLink
Drugs@FDA, the first publicly available Internet resource to offer a comprehensive overview of a drug product's approval history. (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/) /  WebLink
FDA's National Drug Code Directory-Lists ALL Drug Products Marketed in US-Search by Proprietary Name, Active Ingredient, etc. - NDC (http://www.fda.gov/cder/ndc/database/default.htm) /  WebLink
Opioid Table of Equianalgesic Dosage (http://www.stronghealth.com/services/palliative/images/equianalgesictable.pdf) /  WebLink
Medication Errors (Sound-Alike or Look-Alike Medication Names) from the USP (http://www.usp.org/patientSafety/briefsArticlesReports/qualityReview/qr792004-04-01.html) /  WebLink
Medication Errors (LookAlike or Sound Alike Names) /  USP (LOCAL COPY)
Dosing Errors & Dangerous Abreviations from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP): (http://www.ismp.org/PDF/ErrorProne.pdf) /  WebLink
Dosing Errors & Dangerous Abreviations from the In /  Institute fr Safe Medication Practices-LOCAL COPY
Medscape Drug Interaction Checker (http://www.medscape.com/druginfo/druginterchecker?src=0_nl_wm_0) /  WebLink
Medscape Drug Information Bibliographic Search Engine (http://www.medscape.com/druginfo?src=0_nl_wm_0) /  WebLink
IOM Report: The Future of Drug Safety (http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3793/26341/37329.aspx) /  WebLink
Epocrates (drug database searchable by name or class) and other services from Wyeth /  WebLink
Prescription Drugs: FDA's Oversight of the Promotion of Drugs for Off-Label Uses (http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-08-835) /  WebLink

Other Clinical Tools
Centers for Education & Research on Therapeutics (CERTs): A program by the AHRQ, in consultation w/the FDA, to conduct research & education to advance the optimal use of drugs, medical devices, etc. /  WebLink
Clinical Tools, Inc. (CTI),a physician-owned, multimedia company with headquarters in Chapel Hill, NC. Their health-related websites: www1.clinicaltools.com/about/cti/websites/ /  WebLink
Virtual Lecture Hall (VLH) More Web-based CME, by Specialty, at: http://www.vlh.com/shared/courses/specialty.cfm /  WebLink
Drug-Induced Psychiatric Symptoms: http://www.citizen.org/eletter/articles/psych2.htm /  WebLink
Drug Slang: http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/slang/home.html /  WebLink
Culture-Bound Syndromes (Culturally-specific disease entitities not yet recognized by Western medicine): http://weber.ucsd.edu/~thall/cbs_glos.html /  WebLink
MerckMedicus Library of Fulltext Medical References & Reserouces /  WebLink
NCI Pain & Palliative Care Textbook: /  WebLink
FULLTEXT MEDICAL LIBRARY AT: http://medicalstudent.com/ /  WebLink
Useful Medical Links /  WebLink
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines from UCSF: http://medicine.ucsf.edu/resources/guidelines/intro.html /  WebLink
CyberTherapy/CyberPsychology (http://www.ambientintelligence.org/) /  WebLink
Medscape Resource Centers, by Clinical Topic (http://www.medscape.com/pages/editorial/public/resourcecenters/index-resourcecenters?src=hdr) /  WebLink
Web Resources for Botanical Medicine & Research, including Translation (http://www.herbdatanz.com/research_resource.htm) /  WebLink
The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE), A partnership to further knowledge & cooperation on environmental contributors to disease and other health problems (http://www.cheforhealth.org) /  WebLink
Collaborative on Health and the Environment, CHE: (http://www.cheforhealth.org/) /  WebLink
Center for Environmental Therapeutics (http://www.cet.org) /  WebLink
AIDS Treatment News (http://www.aids.org/atn/) /  WebLink
Veritas Medicine, a free resource providing access to clinical trials and disease information (http://www.veritasmedicine.com/) /  WebLink
Emergency Preparedness & Response from CDC: Specific Agents & Diseases (http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/index.asp) /  WebLink
All US Medical Organization Listings (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/organizations/all_organizations.html) /  WebLink
Full Text Biomedical Resources (http://www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/CIR/cir-online-journals.asp) /  WebLink
http://www.stoppain.org /  WebLink
http://www.healingchronicpain.org/ /  WebLink
American Academy on Physician and Patient (AAPP) A forum on and for Physician-Patient Communication: (http://www.physicianpatient.org/) /  WebLink
Medico-legal sites of interest (http://www.garanlucow.com/medical/links.htm) /  WebLink
State Medical Boards from HRG/Public Citizen (http://www.citizen.org/hrg/forms/medboardALL_action.cfm?View+All+States=View+All+States) /  WebLink
HHS Information and Hotline Directory (http://www.dhhs.gov/about/referlst.html) /  WebLink
Comprehensive Anatomy Resource (http://www.anatomyatlases.org/) /  WebLink

WWW Web Tools
Standard Net Acronyms (http://www.netlingo.com) /  WebLink
Acronym Finder (http://www.acronymfinder.com/) /  WebLink
Acronyms from the Free Dictionary (http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/) /  WebLink
ChangeDetection - Know when any web page changes ChangeDetection.com provides page change monitoring and notification services (http://www.changedetection.com/) /  WebLink

Alternative&Complementary Health Practices (ACHP)
WHO Traditional Medicines Homepage (http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/traditional/en/index.html)  /  WebLink
The CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE at the George Washington University (GWU) Medical Center: A healing environment in which patients can learn about a variety of complementary & alternative therapies /  WebLink
Medicine's Chasm: The wide gulf between conventional and alternative approaches widens-From American Medical News (AMA) /  WebLink
EAR CANDLES: Do they Work? Inquiring Ears are all abuzz! /  WebLink
Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Adrian S. Dobs, MD, MHS; Bimal H. Ashar, MD, in WebMD /  WebLink
Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation (MMRF) Center for Addiction and Alternative Medicine Research (CAAMR)  /  WebLink
http://www.cancerlynx.com/index.html /  WebLink
http://www.curezone.com/diseases/support_groups.asp /  WebLink
Enhancing the Accountability of Alternative Medicine (Millbank 1/98) /  WebLink
CA Naturopathic Practice Act-PASSED 9/5/2003 / CA Senate President Pro Tem John Burton
NEW for 2004-Health Canada's Natural Health Products Directorate's Compendium of Monographs (mostly herbal at: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpfb-dgpsa/nhpd-dpsn/monograph_compendium_list_e.html) /  WebLink
CDC Advance Data Report #343. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Adults: United States, 2002. May 27, 2004 (http://nccam.nih.gov/news/camsurvey.htm) /  WebLink
NCHS: CAM Use Among Adults: United States, 2002  /  (Local Copy)
Chiropractic Origins, Controversies, and Contributions / JAMA/Archives
Complementary Therapies for Depression — An Overview / JAMA/Archives
Hepatitis C and Complementary and Alternative Medicine / NIH
Herbal Medicine for the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease — Clinical Considerations / JAMA/Archives
Complementary Therapy Assessment: Acupuncture for Ocular Conditions and Headaches / AAO
Traditional Chinese Medicine for the Treatment of Dermatologic Disorders / JAMA/Archives
Do Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies Help Menopausal Symptoms? / NIH
Complementary and Alternative Medical Therapies for Diabetes / NIH
Herbal Medicinals — Selected Clinical Considerations Focusing on Known or Potential Drug-Herb Interactions / JAMA/Archives
Position Statement
Alternative Medical Care
 / ACOEM
Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Chinese Herbal Medicine — A Randomized Controlled Trial / JAMA/Archives
Saw Palmetto Extracts for Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia — A Systematic Review / JAMA/Archives
Acupuncture for Back Pain — A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials / JAMA/Archives
SACRED EARTH CIRCLE: NATIVE AMERICAN HEALING, SPIRITUALITY, & CULTURE; and Qigong Research & Practice Center (http://www.kennethcohen.com) /  WebLink
Spirit: Resource for Healing, by Rachel Naomi Remen-IONS-Institute for Noetic Sciences (http://www.noetic.org/publications/review/issue08/main.cfm?page=r08_Remen.html#photo) /  WebLink
Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) "Shift" MAgazine-Special Focus: Integral Health and Healing (http://www.noetic.org/publications/shift/issue3/main.cfm) /  WebLink
PCA-Medicinal Plant Working Group, including E-Proceedings from the 2003 Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Industry Symposium (http://www.nps.gov/plants/medicinal/index.htm) /  WebLink
BioMed Central (BMC) Complementary and Alternative Medicine Ejournal: (http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmccomplementalternmed) /  WebLink
Public Health Acupuncture Resources /  Karlo Berger and Beth Sommers
Best Practices in Intecultural Health-PAHO Report on the Integration of Traditional and Biomedical Health Care (http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=564741) /  WebLink
Best Practices in Intecultural Health-2006 Report  /  PAHO: Local Copy
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (http://www.ethnobiomed.com) /  WebLink
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (http://ecam.oxfordjournals.org/) /  WebLink
PowerPoint presentations by members of the AAP Section on Complementary, Holistic, and Integrative Medicine (http://www.aap.org/sections/chim/education.htm) /  WebLink
Powerpoint Presentations from the Provisional Section on Complementary, Holistic, and Integrative Medicine (http://www.aap.org/sections/chim/education.htm) /  WebLink
Systems of medicine explained: Conventional, alternative, integrative, complementary and more (http://www.newstarget.com/019365.html) /  WebLink
A brief history of acupuncture by White & Ernst: Rheumatology 2004; 43: 662-663.  /  WebLink
Regulation of Acupuncture-Report by California's Little Hoover Commission (http://www.acuwatch.org/reg/hooverreport.pdf) /  WebLink
How might acupuncture work? A systematic review of physiologic rationales from clinical trials by Howard Moffet (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/6/25) /  WebLink
IOM Report on Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11182) /  WebLink

Botanical Medicine
NIDA Meeting on PSYCHOACTIVE BOTANICALS /  NIH/NIDA
***CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT*** Naturceuticals (Natural Products), Nutraceuticals,Herbal Botanicals, and Psychoactives; Drug Discovery and Drug-Drug Interactions; A NIDA Conference Nov 5-7, 2004 -------> /  WebLink
Hispanic Herbal Remedies Database from CERT (http://www.torsades.org/medical-pros/herbs/herbs.cfm) /  WebLink
Medical Marijuana.com (http://www.medicalmarijuanaprocon.org/?gclid=COSRs-TGl4oCFRssVAodIlnemA) /  WebLink
Trade Environment Database (TED) (http://www.american.edu/TED/searchhome.htm) /  WebLink
Native Plant Conservation Campaign (NPCC), a project of the California Native Plant Society and the Center for Biological Diversity (http://www.plantsocieties.org/) /  WebLink
Botanical MATERIA MEDICA by System (http://www.infoherb.com/herb-information.html) /  WebLink
kratom/Mitragyna speciosa (http://opioids.com/kratom/mitragynine.htm) /  WebLink
Kratom Marketplace @ IamShaman.com (http://www.iamshaman.com/eshop/10Browse.asp?Category=Kratom) /  WebLink
Licensed Natural Health Products Database (LNHPD) from Health Canada (http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/prodnatur/applications/licen-prod/lnhpd-bdpsnh-eng.php) /  WebLink
Herbs at a Glance [NCCAM Health Information] (http://nccam.nih.gov/health/herbsataglance.htm) /  WebLink

General Mental Health
Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds-by Charles McKay,1841 /  WebLink
Psychopharmacology Alert, from Manisses (Behavioral Healthcare Today) /  WebLink
President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Website: Allows those interested to follow progress of this 1st comprehensive study of public & private mental health service delivery system in nearly 25 yrs /  WebLink
"Mental Health: The Cornerstone of Health" Homepage contains mental health information related to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) research, programs, policies, and etc.  /  WebLink
2002 APA Clinical Guidelines on Treating Bipolar Disorder /  WebLink
Australian Public Health Monographs on Drugs, including Methadone Treatment Monograph /  WebLink
Media Violence / AAP
A Basic Guideline to Bipolar Disorder / Medem-APA
A Closer Look at Bipolar Disorder / Medem-APA
Schizophrenia Treatment  / NIH
Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Delirium / APA
Insomnia (from the Primary Care Network at: http://www.primarycarenet.org/issues/03-May2004%20PI.pdf) /  WebLink
Disability Statistics (http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ped/disabilitystatistics/issues.cfm#DefiningDisability) /  WebLink
Resources from the Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide (http://www.rochesterpreventsuicide.org/Links2.htm) /  WebLink

Mental Health Alternatives
Web-site on the New/Proposed diagnosis of "Substance Dependency-Induced Psychosis" (SDIP) by Norman Jay Gersabeck M.D. /  WebLink
Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Depression /  WebLink
Alternative Approaches to Mental Health Care / NIH
Herbal Remedies in Psychiatric Practice / JAMA/Archives
"Emotional Freedom Technique" Acupoint-based (http://www.emofree.com) /  WebLink
HOLLYHOCK (Cortez Island, BC) is an intentional centre for cultivation of human consciousness, well-being, and social impact. (http://www.hollyhock.ca) /  WebLink
BELIEFS OF THE ELDERS: CODE OF ETHICS FOR INDIGENOUS MEDICINE OF THE COLOMBIAN AMAZON by the UMIYAC (http://tinyurl.com/5sbvd) /  WebLink
The Book of Now (http://www.bookofnow.com/) /  WebLink
The Book of Now (http://www.bookofnow.com/) /  WebLink
Psychedelic Healing? /  SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MIND Dec/Jan 2007 local pdf
Culturally Informed Evidence Based Practices: Translating Research and Policy for the Real World-Proceedings and presentations from the 2008 Conference (http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/aacdr/ciebp08.html) /  WebLink
Baars, In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind. (http://bernardbaars.pbwiki.com/FrontPage) /  WebLink

Pain
DOE/NIH Workshop on Thermographic Approaches to Medical Diagnosis and Therapy /  WebLink
Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome /  WebLink
Pain Treatment & Patient Safety /  AHRQ
Anatomy of the Spine / NPF
Methadone dosing recommendations for the treatment of chronic pain (http://www.pbm.va.gov/archive/methadonedosing.pdf) /  WebLink
VA/DOD Clinical Practice Guidelines: Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain (http://www.oqp.med.va.gov/cpg/cot/ot_base.htm) /  WebLink
Pain Management Without Psychological Dependence: A Guide for Healthcare Providers (http://kap.samhsa.gov/products/brochures/pdfs/saib_0401.pdf) /  WebLink
Assessment and Management of Chronic Pain in Individuals Seeking Treatment for Opioid Dependence Disorder (http://publications.cpa-apc.org/media.php?mid=658&xwm=true) /  WebLink
pain-topics.org:The mission of Pain Treatment Topics is to serve as a noncommercial resource for healthcare professionals & their patients (http://pain-topics.org/) /  WebLink
Stu Leavitt's GREAT Chronic Pain Website (http://pain-topics.org) /  WebLink

Medical Ethics/Human Research Subject Protection
Research Ethics Proceedings from PRIM&R 2006 Meeting in DC (http://live.blueskybroadcast.com/bsb/client/CL_DEFAULT.asp?Client=14&PCAT=123&CAT=123) /  WebLink
Research Ethics Handouts from PRIM&R 2006: "washington06" (http://www.primr.org/education/2006_HRPP/handout_center_HRPP06.html) /  WebLink
Research Ethics Handouts-PRIM&R 2006 (local copy) /  Public Responsibility In Medicine & Research
Assessing and Supporting Parenting in Families /  Affected by Substance Abuse or HIV-07 (local pdf)
CAM Online Continuing Education Series [NCCAM Training] (http://nccam.nih.gov/training/videolectures/) /  WebLink
NIAAA Publications.htm Medication interactions w/EtOH (http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/Medicine/medicine.htm) /  WebLink

Health Policy & Science Policy
Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy (http://www.defendingscience.org/About-Us.cfm) /  WebLink
Greasing Qi in DC: Presentation to NADA 5/19/07 /  Alan Trachtenberg , Roanoke, VA

Access to Care/National Health Program
Health Policy Resources from the National Health Policy Forum (NHPF) @ GW University /  WebLink
Inequalities in access to medical care by income in developed countries (CMAJ: January 17, 2006; 174 (2)). /  WebLink
U.S. Health System Performance: A National Scorecard-The US would have to improve performance on key indicators>50% to reach Benchmarks (http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff.25.w457/DC1) /  WebLink
Primers on Key Health Care Topics & Programs-Kaiser Family Foundation maintains a number of primers providing overviews of key health care programs and issues (http://www.kff.org/medicaid/kcmu100208pkg.cfm%20 ) /  WebLink
Kaiser Foundation Alliance for Health Reform: webcasts from 2009 (http://www.kff.org/allianceEvents.cfm) /  WebLink

American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Health
Obama: A full partnership with Indian country-Indian Country Today (http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/opinion/33211544.html) /  WebLink

Genomics
CDC presentations designed to provide public health professionals a foundation for understanding how genomics advances are relevant to public health: (http://www.cdc.gov/genomics/training/sixwks.htm) /  WebLink
Genomics: A Guide for Public Health: (http://www.genomicstoolkit.org/index.shtml) /  WebLink

Misc.
Litrix: Full Text Classics Collection Reading Room /  WebLink
WHO Air Quality Guidelines /  WebLink
Visionary Art by Alex Grey (http://www.alexgrey.com) /  WebLink
Beth Clay et al (http://www.bcandainternational.com/) /  WebLink
Periodic Table of the Elements-DEFINITIVE (http://chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/periodic/periodic.html) /  WebLink
Web resource on American Indian Health, from the National Library of Medicine: (http://americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov/) /  WebLink
Medical Toxicology Resources (http://www.acmt.net/main/resources.asp) /  WebLink
Washington Metro Station/Street Map w/Google Maps/Images (http://www.wmata.com/maps/metrorail_street_map.cfm) /  WebLink
Medical History (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=228) /  WebLink
Surfing and email without tracks (http://anonymouse.org/) /  WebLink
2create Public Photo/Graphic Albums (http://picasaweb.google.com/2create.yourMD) /  WebLink
DOJ site forTribal Justice and Safety in Indian Country (http://www.tribaljusticeandsafety.gov/) /  WebLink
Obesity and American Indians/Alaska Natives (http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/07/AI-AN-obesity/index.htm) /  WebLink

Other Items(See Left for Even Older Ones,by Topic)
Duchy Trachtenberg Elected to Montgomery County Council-At Large (http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/csltmpl.asp?url=/content/council/mem/Trachtenberg/index.asp) /  WebLink
Duchy Trachtenberg Campaign Website (http://www.voteduchy.org/) /  WebLink

Special Items, UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Resume /  Alan Trachtenberg, MD,MPH
Creating a National Greek Life Task Force To Stop  /  Heather Eckert; PubH 290.20: Final Paper
HBV Program for IDUs Under Age 30 Through an NSEP /  Author's Name Withheld by Request (Shy re the A+)
Prevention of Inhalant Abuse by Alaskan Teenager  /  Brian Gavitt
Tobacco Tax Increase to Decrease Youth Cigarette  /  Dena Gregory
Shulgin /  Wired
Groups Health Settles /  Seattle Times
Texas Outbreak /  BarretEtAl
Florida Toxicology /  Goldberger er al
Alabama MAD's /  Jeffereson Cpounty ME
Poisoning Deaths 1 /  Fingerhut & Cox
Poisoning Deaths 2 /  Fingerhut & Cox
MD ME Report on MAD (DEWS) /  CESAR
IOM Death Agenda /  Carolyn Fulco
Oshawa Clinic /  Toronto Star
European Symposium /  Edzard Ernst
FDA Adv Cmtee /  FDA
Ann Int Med Letters: Krantz et al TdP & Methadone / Page 307 19 August 2003 Volume 139 ? Number 4
Annals Letters to Krantz on TdP Methadone-PDF /  Sala et al & Mokwe et al
Actual Causes of Death /  JAMA
Local PDF of Commonly Abused Drugs & Their Effects /  NIDA
Epidemiology of Alcohol in the US Slide Presentati /  Godlaski, Theodore M.
Recent drug use abstracts 7/31/2006 / T. Steve Jones, MD, MPH
Effects of Long-Term Peyote in Native Americans /  J.H. Halpern et al
The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) /  Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) Study (http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/06153.xml) /  WebLink
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Drug Abuse Data Archives: ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.  /  WebLink
Federal Drug Data Sources /  Modified from ONDCP by Dr. T.
The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal (http://historyofalcoholanddrugs.typepad.com/alcohol_and_drugs_history/inhalants/index.html) /  WebLink
Cannabis use in the United States (http://www.cedro-uva.org/lib/harrison.cannabis.html) /  WebLink
History of drug legislation in the USA /  WebLink
Centre for Drug Research, (CEDRO), Library (Amsterdam) /  WebLink
Commonly Abused Drugs /  NIDA / Trachtenberg
HISTORY OF DRUG USE AND DRUG USERS IN THE UNITED STATES / Elaine Casey /  WebLink
TIP 43. Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction in Opioid Treatment Programs / Batki et al /  WebLink
Definitions, Terms, and Classification Systems for Co-Occurring Disorders /  WebLink
Substance-Induced Mental Disorders /  WebLink
Co-Occurring Medical and Psychiatric Conditions /  WebLink
Breaking the Cycle: The Substance-Dependent Client as Parent/Caregiver /  WebLink
Screening and Assessing Adults For Childhood Abuse and Neglect /  WebLink
NIDA Report: Assessing the Impact of Childhood Interventions (http://www.drugabuse.gov/Meetings/Childhood/Commissioned/Costello_Armstrong_Erkanli/Costello4.html) /  WebLink
Treatment of Drug-Dependent Individuals With Comorbid Mental Disorders-NIDA Research Monograph 172, Onken et al (ED) /  WebLink
Drug law in Europe (http://eldd.emcdda.europa.eu/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.Content&nnodeid=5176&sLanguageiso=EN) /  WebLink
Website on Direvsity from the Harvard School of Public Health (http://diversitydata.sph.harvard.edu/index.jsp) /  WebLink
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) /  WebLink
"Jake Leg" The New Yorker (September 15, 2003)  /  Dan Baum
AccessMyLibrary gives you free access to millions of articles from top publications available at your library (http://www.accessmylibrary.com) /  WebLink
TESTING DRUGS VS. TESTING FOR DRUG USE: PRIVATE RISKMANAGEMENT IN THE SHADOW OF THE CRIMINAL LAW by Robert MacCoun  /  WebLink
TESTING DRUGS VS. TESTING FOR DRUG USE /  Robert MacCoun
Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) History of Prohibition /  WebLink
Drugs of Abuse /  Adapted from NIDA
Common Drugs of Abuse /  Adapted from NIDA
Addiction Versus Dependence in DSM-V  /  Charles P. O’Brien, M.D., Ph.D., et al
Commonly Abused Drugs  /  Adapted from NIDA
Unintentional Poisoning Deaths --- United States, 1999--2004. MMWR February 9, 2007 / 56(05);93-96 ( http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5605a1.htm) /  WebLink
Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 2006; 15: 61 /  Paulozzi et al
Comorbidity between substance use disorders & psy /  Shuckit
Drug Abuse Glossary (http://www3.uta.edu/sswtech/sapvc/information/teens13_15/Teens_(ages13-15)_Glossary.htm) /  WebLink
Addiction Medicine Free Educational Series from NY State OASAS (http://www.oasas.state.ny.us/admed/edseries.cfm) /  WebLink
NIAAA Alcohol Epidemiologic Data Directory (http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/2006DataDirectory/2006DataDirectory.htm#55) /  WebLink
Treatment of marijuana dependence: a review /  McRae et al
Decreased respiratory symptoms in cannabis users /  Mitch Earleywine*1 and Sara Smucker Barnwell2
Alcoholism & Substance Abuse /  Don Warne, MD, MPH
Using Possession Laws to Decrease Youth Smoking /  Jeremy Drehmer
Sexual Assault and Alcohol Abuse Prevention at GW /  Alison Shaffer
Medical Examiners and Coroners’ Offices, 2004 /  Hickman, Hughs et al. Bureau of Justice Statistics
2008 Syllabus /  A Trachtenberg
Underage Drinking: Frequency, Consequences & inter /  Hingson et al
2008 session 1 and 2 Addiction101b  /  A. Trachtenberg
2008 Session 3-psych-initiation-progression (c) /  A. Trachtenberg
Themes in Chemical Prohibition /  William L. White, NIDA
2008 Session 4B Handout.pdf  /  A. Trachtenberg /
2008 Session 5B Handout.pdf  /  A. Trachtenberg
2008Topics Course in Substance Abuse-Final Handout /  A. Trachtenberg
Predictive factors for drug use among Youth-British Home Office (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/rdsolr0507.pdf) /  WebLink
Predictive factors for drug use among Youth /  British Home Office
WHO Publications on Addiction Pharmacotherapy (http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/treatment/en/) /  WebLink
Addiction Pharmacotherapy /  WHO
Comorbidity: Addiction and Other Mental Illnesses /  NIDA-12/2008 (local pdf)
Comorbidity: Addiction and Other Mental Illnesses / NIDA 12/2008 (http://www.nida.nih.gov/researchreports/comorbidity/index.html) /  WebLink
Targeting Blacks:Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States (http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2008/05/04/targeting-blacks) | Human Rights Watch /  WebLink
Targeting Blacks:Drug Law Enforcement and Race  /  Human Rights Watch
Results from the 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) (http://oas.samhsa.gov/NSDUH/2k7NSDUH/2k7results.cfm) /  WebLink
NIAAA Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS) with Data Tables (http://www.alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/0 /  WebLink
NIAAA Surveillance Reports l Epidemiologic Data Manuals l Directories (http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/Publications/EpidemiologicManuals/) /  WebLink
How to Monitor for Population Health Outcomes by NZ Ministry of Health. 2007 (http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/pagesmh/6463/$File/HowtoMonitorPHOutcomesv2.pdf) /  WebLink
How to Monitor for Population Health Outcomes-pdf  /  New Zealand Ministry of Health
The Role of Partners in Women?s Recovery (http://aia.berkeley.edu/publications/monographs/partners.php) /  WebLink
Partner Influence on Womens Addiction&Recover-pdf /  National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Cen
Methadone Diversion, Abuse, and Misuse: Deaths Rising National Drug Intelligence Center (http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs25/25930/index.htm) /  WebLink
New Links for IRBs and Human Research Protections /  Alan
California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC) (http://www.cachildwelfareclearinghouse.org/) /  WebLink
Evidence-Based programs in the Topical Area - Substance Abuse from CEBC (Parental): (http://www.cachildwelfareclearinghouse.org/search/topical-area/9#extra) /  WebLink
Evidence-based program directories (http://www.findyouthinfo.gov/cf_pages/programtool.cfm#faq2) /  WebLink
Program Tool provides you with information about program designs that successfully deal with risky behaviors. You can replicate these strategies locally (http://www.findyouthinfo.gov/cf_pages/programtool.cfm) /  WebLink
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide (MPG) (http://www.dsgonline.com/mpg2.5/mpg_index.htm) /  WebLink
Evidence-Based Practices: Shaping Mental Health Services Toward Recovery from CMHS (http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cmhs/communitysupport/toolkits/about.asp) /  WebLink
Mamaherb.com is home to 12217 Treatments using 1253 Ingredients treating 1339 Conditions, growing each day (http://www.mamaherb.com/) /  WebLink
Add Health is the largest, most comprehensive longitudinal survey of adolescents ever undertaken. (http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth) /  WebLink
Drugged! The top 50 trips in movies: This list is about scenes in movies where the effects of drug-taking are depicted. (http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/164360/drugged_the_top_50_trips_in_movies.html) /  WebLink
Speaker presentations, videos and photo galleries from The Ninth Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (http://gfbr9.hrc.govt.nz/index.php/presentations) /  WebLink
National Drug Threat Assessment 2009 (http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs31/31379/31379p.pdf) /  WebLink
Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs by Nutt & King, Lancet (http://antiproibizionisti.it/public/docs/thelancet_20070323.pdf) /  WebLink
NIAAA Comprehensive Social Work Curriculum on Alcohol w/PPTs (http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/Social/ContentsList.html) /  WebLink
Orthomolecular is a term that comes from ortho, which is Greek for "correct" or "right," and "molecule," (http://www.orthomolecular.org/) /  WebLink
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the central nervous system http://ms.issuesinneurology.com/ /  WebLink
Special Theme: Neurotransmission and Addiction: Recent Translational Findings |http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v34/n2/index.html /  WebLink
The Law and Neuroscience Project (http://www.lawandneuroscienceproject.org/) /  WebLink
Pain Treatment Topics serves as a noncommercial resource for healthcare professionals & their patients (http://pain-topics.org/) /  WebLink
Federal Drug-Related Data Systems Inventory Report of the Drug Control Research Data, and Evaluation Committee February 2003 (http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/drugdata2003/index.html) /  WebLink
The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. (http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/) /  WebLink
Bureau of Justice Statistics (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/welcome.html) /  WebLink
Federal MapStats: United States (http://www.fedstats.gov/qf/) /  WebLink
Fedstats: statistics from more than 100 agencies (http://www.fedstats.gov/) /  WebLink
U of Michigan Statistical Resources on the Web (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html) /  WebLink
Government(s) on Line-Support provided by Westlaw People Map (http://www.govspot.com/) /  WebLink
National Center for Cultural Competence at Georgetown University (http://www11.georgetown.edu/research/gucchd/nccc/index.html) /  WebLink
Phytochemical and genetic analyses of ancient cannabis from Central Asia. Journal of Experimental Botany 59 (15):4171-4182. (http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/59/15/4171) /  WebLink
Institute for Safe Medication Practices (http://www.ismp.org/ ) /  WebLink
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) search tool lets you locate tables/figures/charts published in the inventory of National Education Data Resource Center (NEDRC) (http://nces.ed.gov/quicktables/) /  WebLink
Create customized tables using data from multiple years collected from five CCD surveys and a Census Special Tabulation. (http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/bat/) /  WebLink
MedPage Guide to Biostatistics: a compilation of important epidemiologic concepts & etc. (http://www.medpagetoday.com/Medpage-Guide-to-Biostatistics.pdf) /  WebLink
Integration of Mental Health in the Public Health System by THE BAZELON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH LAW (http://www.bazelon.org/issues/healthreform/issuepapers/PublicHealth.pdf) /  WebLink
Integration of Mental Health in the Public Health  /  BAZELON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH LAW local pdf
Improving Care for People with Severe Mental Illnesses (http://www.bazelon.org/issues/healthreform/issuepapers/Severe.pdf) /  WebLink
Matrix and Bazian were commissioned by the Department of Health to prioritize public health interventions (http://www.healthengland.org/publications/Public%20health%20prioritisation_report_final%20report.pdf ) /  WebLink
EB review & Prioritization of pub health intervent /  Matrix and Bazian, commissioned by DPH-local pdf
Unclaimed Children Revisited: The Status of Children?s Mental Health Policy in the United States (http://nccp.org/publications/pdf/text_853.pdf) /  WebLink
The Good Indicators Guide:Understanding how to use and choose indicators (http://www.inispho.org/files/TheGoodIndicatorsGuideUnderstandinghowtouseandch.pdf) /  WebLink
The Good Indicators Guide: How to use and choose /  NHS Inst. for Innovation & Improvement-local pdf
(http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k8/selfHelp/selfHelp.pdfParticipation in Self-Help Groups for Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use: 2006 and 2007) /  WebLink
Justice Policy Institute and related links (http://www.justicepolicy.org/content-hmID=1814.htm) /  WebLink
WHO Monograph on Selected Medical Plants (http://centerfortraditionalmedicine.org/research/web_articles/WHO%20monographs%20on%20selected%20medicinal%20plants.pdf) /  WebLink
enter for Traditional Medicine promotes the cross-cultural healing arts and sciences and advances social change to benefit individual and community health (http://centerfortraditionalmedicine.org/) /  WebLink
IOM Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public: Issue Background and Overview (http://www.iom.edu/CMS/28312/52555/62252/62351.aspx) /  WebLink
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