OVERBOARD back to top
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/closetohome/overboard/menu.html
Overboard is an online, thirteen-part soap opera/comic book that is part of Bill Moyer’s Close to Home. The series features Keith, Marla, Beau, Tracey, and Wilson, teens dealing with substance abuse and addiction.

Indiana Prevention Resource Center (IPRC) back to top
http://www.drugs.indiana.edu

Indiana University’s IPRC is a professionally developed web site that offers information about prevention topics. IPRC is a statewide clearinghouse for prevention, technical assistance, and information about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Prevention resources include articles and publications, basic drug information, and statistics. The library offers books, videos, and journals in searchable form.

Join Together back to top
http://www.jointogether.org

Join Together, founded in 1991, supports community-based efforts to reduce, prevent, and treat substance abuse across the nation. It also helps respond to the harms related to substance abuse, including domestic violence, unemployment, crime, loss of workplace productivity, and gun violence.

Join Together Online, its highly recommended web site, is one of the best sources of news about events and developments in the substance abuse field. It also offers a variety of services and information products, including reports, newsletters and community action toolkits, related to substance abuse work.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) back to top
http://www.madd.org

MADD describes itself as "more than just a bunch of angry moms. We're real people, moms, dads, young people, and other individuals just trying to make a difference. We are determined to stop drunk driving, support the victims of this violent crime, and prevent underage drinking."

Its web site has information for victims, youths under 21, and parents. An "idea catcher" helps brainstorm

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) back to top
http://www.casacolumbia.org

CASA’s stated purpose is to "Inform Americans of the economic and social costs of substance abuse and its impact on their lives"...and to "Assess what works in prevention, treatment, and law enforcement."

CASA’s informative web site is organized around its four divisions: Research, Policy Research and Analysis, Program Demonstration and Communications and the work each one is doing. For example, CASA's Medical Division is conducting a comprehensive evaluation of substance abuse treatment across the country. The FYI (Family and Youth information) has a CASA quiz so "Tweens & Teens" can find out what other teens say about drugs, alcohol and tobacco.

National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) back to top
http://www.health.org

The (NCADI), a service of SAMHSA, offers its Prevline (Prevention Online) site with a variety of pages devoted to such standard but important fare as research, databases, workplace issues, sources and referrals, related links, alcohol and drug facts, and online forums. Its "For Kids Only" area is particularly diverting at
http://www.health.org/kidsarea/kidsarea.htm, offering comically illustrated episodes on such subjects as "Be Smart, Don't Start," "How Can I Say No??" "Wally Bear and the Know Gang," "How Can I Help Someone?" "Are You Curious?" "Fun Stuff!" "Internet Safety," and "Cool Sites to Visit."

National Commission Against Drunk Driving (NCADD) back to top
http://www.ncadd.com

The National Commission Against Drunk Driving (NCADD) is a non-profit organization of public and private sector leaders who are dedicated to minimizing the human and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes by working to make driving impaired a socially unacceptable act.

The web site includes a state-by-state chart on drunk driving laws and a Parent/Teen discussion guide titled, "Yes, you may use the car, but FIRST... " The purpose of the guide is to assist parents in talking to their teenagers about safe driving with a focus on preventing alcohol and drug impaired driving.

National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD) back to top
http://www.ncadd.org

The NCADD provides "education, information, help and hope in the fight against the chronic, often fatal disease of alcoholism and other drug addictions." Founded in 1944, NCADD is a voluntary health organization with a nationwide network of affiliates. The NCADD web site includes information on its founder Marty Mann, the first woman to stay sober in Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as information for parents and youths, connections to affiliates, and the latest news about the organization’s effort to represent the interests of alcoholics, other addicted persons, and their families at the federal government level.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) back to top
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov

As part of the Department of Transportation, NHSTA provides information on drunk and drugged driving. Their "Campaign Safe and Sober" provides information on young people; their National Drunk and Drugged Driver (3D) Prevention Planner provides tools to help communities undertake local activities on impaired driving. Also available from their web site are fact sheets, the quarterly Traffic Safety Digest, and ordering information on a variety of safety related publications.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism back to top
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) is one of 18 institutes that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the principal biomedical research agency of the Federal Government. The NIAAA supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. NIAAA also provides leadership in the national effort to reduce the severe and often fatal consequences of these problems.

The NIAAA web site is designed primarily to serve as a guide to this large bureaucracy, but there are valuable features for the public at large, such as the informative Frequently Asked Questions section. The director’s page and his annual testimony before a House subcommittee are interesting comments on the problem of substance abuse.

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) back to top
http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDAHome1.html

Established in 1974, NIDA became part of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services in October 1992. NIDA's mission is to lead the nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction. This charge has two critical components: The first is the strategic support and conduct of research across a broad range of disciplines. The second is to ensure the rapid and effective dissemination and use of the results of that research to significantly improve drug abuse and addiction prevention, treatment, and policy.

NIDA’s much-visited web site includes links to pages of information about individual drugs and research into them. Its NIDA Goes to School has science-based information on drug abuse for teachers and students. The Welcome page leads to Milestones in NIDA History and a link to the 1991 release, Principles of Treatment, A Research-Based Guide developed for use in local communities, that describes the most successful concepts for treating people with drug abuse and addiction problems.

National Inhalant Prevention Coalition (NIPC) back to top
http://www.inhalants.org

Founded in 1992, the NIPC serves as an inhalant referral and information clearinghouse, stimulates media coverage about inhalant issues, develops informational materials, produces ViewPoint (a quarterly newsletter), provides training and technical assistance and leads a week-long national grassroots inhalant awareness campaign.

NIPC’s web site includes information about National Inhalants & Poisons Awareness Week (NIPAW), an annual media-based, community-level program that takes place the third week in March. NIPAW is designed to increase understanding about the use and risks of inhalant involvement. There is also information about the threat posed by a variety of inhalants and tips for parents and teachers on how to spot an inhalant user and how to deal with the situation.

New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) back to top
http://www.oasas.state.ny.us

OASAS administers the nation's most comprehensive system of
services for substance abusing populations. Each day, about 120,000 New Yorkers receive treatment for alcohol and/or drug addiction from OASAS-licensed programs. Services are delivered through a network of over 1,200 community-based providers. OASAS also directly operates 13 Addiction Treatment Centers around the state. In addition, thousands of people benefit daily from prevention initiatives carried out by OASAS-sponsored or licensed prevention programs.

OASAS’s no-nonsense web site offers new bulletins on legislation and other issues of concern to treatment and prevention, as well as referral links ("If You or Someone You Know Needs Help") and connections to government, self-help, and "Latest Research" sites.

SADD Students Against Destructive Decisions (also Students Against Drunk Driving) back to top
http://www.saddonline.com


SADD is a school-based organization dedicated to addressing the issues of underage drinking, impaired driving, drug use, and other destructive decisions and killers of young people. SADD's mission is to provide students with the best prevention and intervention tools possible to deal with the issues of destructive decisions.

This site has a definite commercial slant with top billing given to SADD’s corporate sponsors and a page devoted to selling "a variety of high quality SADD products. But there is also information on "How to start a SADD Chapter" and "Top Driver: A revolutionary concept in driver education."

Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) back to top
http://www.samhsa.gov

SAMHSA's mission within the nation's health system is to improve the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.

Talking With Kids back to top
www.talkingwithkids.org

A national initiative by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation to encourage parents to talk with their children earlier and more often about tough issues like sex, HIV/AIDS, violence, alcohol, and drug abuse.