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Drug abuse
Databases | Government sites | Research institutes | Organisations | Clinical trials | E-texts | Statistics
Databases
Alcohol Studies Database
This site provides access to the Alcohol Studies Database. The database contains over 60,000 citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and audio-visual materials.
NIAAA Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database (ETOH)
Produced by the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
University of Sydney databases
Drug Database (DRUG) - produced by the Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia (ADCA) in Canberra, is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from published and unpublished material on the psychosocial aspects of drug abuse.
EMBASE - is the major European biomedical and pharmaceutical database. indexing in the fields of drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation.
Medline - Medline online encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.
Psychinfo - Clinical and technical drug information, pharmacy practice, pharmaceutical education, legal aspects of pharmacy and drugs.
Sociofile/Sociological Abstracts - Bibliographic references and abstracts to literature of sociology and the related social sciences including the topics AIDS, alcohol abuse, communications, counselling, crime, culture, death, drugs, and education.
Government sites
Australian National Council on Drugs
The ANCD represents a cross-section of interests and expertise ranging through academia, medicine, education, law enforcement, treatment services, families who have suffered loss, those who have been affected by drugs, the Indigenous community and government.
MedlinePlus
Substance abuse topics and links.
U.S. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Drug Abuse
Victorian Government Better Health Channel
Research institutes
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
National Drug Research Institute (NDRI)
Organisations
Alcohol and Other Drugs Council of Australia
A national non-govenment organisation.
Australian Drug Foundation
ADF is an independent, non-profit organisation working to prevent and reduce alcohol and drug problems in the Australian community.
Australian Drug Information Network
Funded by the Department of Health and Aged Care the site links to a range of websites and information resources on alcohol and other drugs.
DRUG-ARM
This is adrug education site for legal advice, annual reports, and an informative A to Z resource on specific drugs.
Clinical trials
U.S. National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network
E-texts
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Publications including:
Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia 2004-2005.
INFOFAX
Science-based facts on drug abuse and addiction. Produced by the U.S. National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse.
National Drug Strategy Publications
Topics covered are the National Drug Strategic Framework, National Tobacco Strategy, National Alcohol Strategy, National Illicit Drug Strategy, and National Drug Strategy Monographs.
Principles of drug Addiction Treatment: A research based guide
NIH Publication No. 00-4180.
NHMRC Information document on the Current State of Research on Illicit Drugs in Australia
NSWHealth Drug and Alcohol Publications
The Fact Sheet series provide information on both illicit; legal and prescription drugs. They cover topics such as side effects, withdrawal, effects on pregnancy and the law.
Statistics
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Statistics on Drug Use in Australia 1988
Statistics on Drug Use in Australia 2004