914-725-5151 - pbwaldman@aol.com - Help: info@addictionresourceguide.com - A comprehensive directory of addiction treatment facilities online. Addiction Resource Guide is a new Internet company whose mission is to help professionals and consumers find resources for dealing with addictive problems. Strongest coverage is for US and Canada residential facilities. 

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Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database (ETOH) , 1960s - 2003

NIAAA (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) - ETOH was the database of choice for searching the scientific and clinical literature on alcohol, and is still useful for retrospective research. Contains information on all aspects of research on alcohol use, abuse, and dependence, including prevention and treatment from the late 1960s through 2003. Approximately 110,000 records, with about 400 updates monthly when active. Presents complete perspective of the world of alcohol research; includes research findings from other countries that are published in English or have English-language abstracts. Indexed with vocabulary from the "Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus: A Guide to Concepts and Terminology in Substance Abuse and Addiction (AOD Thesaurus)". Every record has an abstract. Includes journal articles, books, conference papers and proceedings, reports and studies, dissertation abstracts, and chapters in edited works. Covers 30 alcohol and other drug abuse journals. Extensive online help available, including online thesaurus. Still useful for retrospective research.  

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Alcohol and Substance Abuse Information Database for Clinicians and Educators (CORK)

ProjectCork.org, PO Box 22, Norwich VT, 05055.
jeankinney@projectcork.org
The CORK database includes over 69,000 items on substance abuse, indexed by over 400 subject heading terms, with online thesaurus. These are primarily from the professional literature and include journal articles, books, book chapters, and reports. The database is updated quarterly. Online searches can be conducted, either in a "Basic Search Format" or an "Advanced Format. Documentation is available.  CORK contains selected journal articles with subject strengths covering medical school curriculum, college issues, attitudes towards use and problems, cost benefit analyses of treatment, employee assistance programs, etiology and genetics, health insurance, impaired professionals, societal effects, screening tests, special populations, treatment modalities, and outcome studies. Since 1978. Produced by SALIS member Jean Kinney. Abstracts from 1987. Was alcohol only until 1991. 

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Alcohol History Database (AHD)

judit.ward@rutgers.edu, Judit H. Ward, Director of Information Services
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University, 607 Allison Rd., Piscataway, NJ 08854-8001 - 732-445-4442, Fax: 732-445-5944, chrouse@rci.rutgers.edu - The Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University is proud to announce that its database of historical materials on alcohol use in America is now available on the Web. The Alcohol History Database contains bibliographic records for nearly 700 monographs, pamphlets, and journals from the 19th and early 20th centuries dealing primarily with the American Temperance and Prohibition Movements. The Center Library also plans to add digitized copies of selected images (drawings, engravings, photographs) to the database in the near future. All materials are from the library collections at the Center of Alcohol Studies. The database is searchable by author, keyword or phrase, date, and image type. There are also links to additional resources for historical information on alcohol use. (updated September 2007).   

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Alcohol Industry and Policy Database (AIPD)

The Marin Institute - Citations and brief abstracts for over 22,000 records about the alcohol beverage industry, alcohol policy, and prevention; newspapers, business journals, journals in prevention, advertising, and the beverage industry. Web version is updated monthly. Indexed using headings from the Marin Institute Thesaurus. info@marininstitute.org or administrator@marininstitute.org or webmaster@marininstitute.org.

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Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS)

NIAAA web site now provides access to the Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS) based on the earlier work of Alex Wagenaar at University of Minnesota. It's purpose is to encourage research on alcohol policies in the US. The Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS) provides user-searchable access to authoritative, detailed, and comparable information on alcohol-related policies in the United States, at both State and Federal levels. Designed primarily as a tool for researchers, APIS is intended to encourage and facilitate research on the effects and effectiveness of alcohol-related policies. The alcohol-related policies covered by APIS include: Alcoholic beverage control , Taxation and pricing , Advertising, marketing, and mass media, Transportation, crime, and public safety, Health care services and financing education, Public services, functions, and programs, Employment and workplace. These areas of alcohol-related policy are described further in the Alcohol Policy Classification System. APIS provides information on alcohol-related policies in several formats and at several levels of detail: 1) Detailed Information on Selected Alcohol Policy Topics - This section of the APIS Web site provides the following information on each policy topic: a brief narrative description; a list of definitions (if necessary); a summary of relevant Federal law (if any); tables comparing policies on that topic across jurisdictions (as of a particular date and/or over a period of time specified by the user); a brief explanation of variables used in creating these tables; notes explaining the limitations of the information provided; charts and maps; relevant statutory and regulatory text; and references to selected Federal publications. All tables may be downloaded in a format suitable for many spreadsheet and statistical programs. 2) Archive of Alcohol-Related Bills and Regulations - This section of the APIS Web site provides the following information on every alcohol-related bill and regulation enacted or adopted in the United States (at both State and Federal levels), beginning January 1, 2002: a brief narrative summary of the bill or regulation; the full text of that bill or regulation; and the full text of statutory or regulatory code(s) as amended by that bill or regulation. All enacted bills and adopted regulations are assigned to one or more alcohol-related policy areas (using the Alcohol Policy Classification System developed for APIS). Site users may search for bills and/or regulations by jurisdiction, year, alcohol policy area(s), and other dimensions. APIS has been developed by The CDM Group, Inc., under contract to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (Contract No. N01AA12009). Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation and UrbanPlanet, LLC, are major subcontractors. APIS has built on and benefited from work initiated by the University of Minnesota's Alcohol Epidemiology Program, under the direction of Prof. Alexander C. Wagenaar, with funding from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Additional features will be added to the APIS Web site over time. Suggestions from researchers and others are welcome, as is information on any problems that site users may encounter while using the APIS Web site. 

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Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Serials

This database contains information on over 350 journals, newsletters, and monograph series in the field of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. It includes both active publications and those that have ceased publication, but may be of archival interest. On the main ATOD Serials page, users will find Quick Links to peer-reviewed journals, non-English serials, serials that are free online, and serials grouped by Focus Areas such as Treatment, Policy, and Social Sciences. An advanced-search option allows users to combine their own search criteria. In it's debut, the database identifies 3 SALIS Libraries that own copies of cited serial titles, and we hope to add the ATOD journal holdings for additional SALIS libraries. The database was developed by SALIS members from the University of Washington Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute Library.  

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ATTC Product Database

no@nattc.org - Members of the ATTC Network - Database of more than 500 curriculum products developed by members of the Addiction Technology Transfer Centers Network. Records contain information about each product as well as information on availability. 

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Center of Alcohol Studies Database (CAS)

Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies and Scholarly Communications Center - The Alcohol Studies Database contains citations of over 80,000 documents indexed by the Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies since 1987--the citations, with subject index terms, for the articles, books, reports, and chapters in our main research and educational collections. The primary focus is on research and professional materials dealing with beverage alcohol, its use and related consequences. The database also includes a small collection of educational and prevention materials, including audiovisuals, suitable for students and educators K-12, parents, community workers, and the general public. Records are to citations only, and are searchable by author, keyword(s) in title, or subject headings. (updated June 2007)  

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CSPV Violence Literature Database (VioLit)

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
Institute of Behavioral Science
University of Colorado at Boulder
1877 Broadway, Suite 601
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: (303) 492-1032
Fax: (303) 443-3297
Jane Grady, Assistant Director: jane.grady@colorado.edu  
In an effort to establish more complete and valuable information to impact violence-related policies, programs, and practices, CSPV works from a multi-disciplinary platform on the subject of violence and facilitates the building of bridges between the research community and the practitioners and policy makers. VioLit is a violence-related research literature database with abstracts and reference information. 

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Hazelden Books/Audiovisuals Database

651-213-4093, or bweiner@hazelden.org, Hazelden Library, Center City, MN.
Internal databases of the Hazelden Library books and audiovisuals (15,000 titles). Collection is multi-disciplinary: chemical dependency, treatment, substance abuse, recovery, alcoholism, spirituality, psychology, self-help, health, lifestyle, men's issues, women's issues, family, other addictions (eating disorders, gambling, money, sexual, work, etc.), relapse, chronic illness, co-dependency, dual addictions, as well as related fiction, auto/biographies, and juvenile literature. Produced by SALIS member Barbara Weiner. You may call or e-mail to have a search done for you, then sent to you.  

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Illinois Addiction Studies Archive (IASA)

There is no on-line database to search. From what the web states, one must go to Chestnut to search the database.
Peter B. Bergstrom, Ph.D., 720 W. Chestnut Street,Bloomington, IL 61701 - 309-827-6026 ext. 3344, pvbergst@chestnut.org - Lighthouse Limited, Chestnut Health Systems - The collection consists of approximately 1500 volumes ranging in publication dates from 1834 to the present. Artifacts include antique medicine bottles, labels, photographs, manuscripts, memorabilia, historic advertising material, and other articles of interest to the addiction professional. 

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Information on Drugs and Alcohol Database (IDA)

2007 UPDATE: NIAAA ceased funding for this in 2003. Now housed in the NACoA site, with less thorough indexing. Part of NCADI (National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information) - Bibliographic database includes journal articles, books, and other documents concerning mainly prevention and other sociological issues on alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. 1987 to present. Weak searching software.
It now absorbs the smaller of:
(1) PMD (Prevention Materials Database--A database containing primary alcohol and substance abuse prevention materials developed by both private and public agencies, for use by community leaders, educators, parents, and youth/teens. Bibliographic records and a brief description of each item are provided. Search by keywords and format, e.g. video, bumper sticker, fact sheet), and (2) TRD (Treatment Resources Database--Current collection of materials related to treatment and recovery; e.g., videos, pamphlets, booklets, curricula, fact sheets, books, etc. Alcohol and substance abuse treatment materials with a focus on intervention, recovery, treatment, and relapse prevention. Bibliographic records and descriptions of each item included. Search options include topic, target audience, format, organization.).  

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Indiana Prevention Resource Center Databases (IPRC)

Indiana Prevention Resource Center, Indiana University, Creative Arts Building, 2735 E 10th St Rm 110, Bloomington, IN 47408-2606, (812) 855-1237, morrisr@indiana.edu - Several databases, including their print (books, curricula), journals, serials, and videos. The Health Information Clearinghouse Database (found under Library from homepage) is produced by SALIS member Barbara Seitz de Martinez. Also contains a database of Drug Slang Terms (3,000) and the database of Acronyms and Abbreviations (these last two both found under "Drug Info" from the IPRC homepage). Subject headings for articles are based on ERIC Thesaurus terms.

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Join Together Online (JTO)

Join Together, One Appleton Street 4th floor, Boston MA 02116 - Phone: 617-437-1500 Fax: 617-437-9394, info@jointogether.org - Join Together is a national resource for communities fighting substance abuse and gun violence, based at the Boston University School of Public Health. The web page is home to over 35,000 substance abuse and gun violence related articles. Substance abuse database contains articles (especially from news media) on alcohol, other drugs, and tobacco. Searchable categories include funding, policy, prevention, communities, government and law, treatment, media, research and general consumption and problems. Grant finding tools are a particular strength, as is the website finder.    

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Legacy Tobacco Documents Library

The University of California, San Francisco Library and the American Legacy Foundation - The Legacy National Tobacco Documents Library offers searching, viewing, and downloading of over 20 million documents, which relate to scientific research, manufacturing, marketing, advertising and sales of cigarettes, among other topics, generally dating from the 1950's to recent years. These documents represent the contents of tobacco industry websites as of July 1999; newer material will be added to this library over time. This is called the worlds largest public digital collection, a single portal into the working files of the major tobacco companies. This database will serve as a free and permanent home for these documents. The documents range from the 1930s to the 1990s, including marketing, research, and development projects conducted by the tobacco industry, cigarette analysis and design, and the tobacco industry's efforts to establish business in developing countries. They also include topics related to the history of tobacco litigation, use, health, and youth smoking. The documents were obtained through the legal discovery process for a lawsuit against the major tobacco companies by the Attorney General of Minnesota and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Minnesota, as well as lawsuits brought by 46 state attorneys general.    

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Lindesmith Library - Drug Policy Alliance

The Lindesmith Center, Soros Foundation/Open SocietyInstitute, New York, NY - 212-548-0181 or 212-548-0396.  This is the catalog of the holdings of both The Lindesmith Center Library in New York and the Lindesmith Center Online Library of full-text electronic documents. Search the 5,000+ collection of books, government reports, organization reports, and articles concerned with illegal drugs, drug policy, and drug history. Compiled by SALIS member Ed Kirtz.    

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Media Awareness Project, or Drugnews (MAP)

P.O. Box 651, Porterville, CA 93258 - (800) 266-5759 - Mark Greer, Webmaster: Matt Elrod - Contains over 48,000 full-text articles (from 1997-April 2000), including editorials, op-ed pieces, and letters to the editor. This is an activist site that is oriented toward drug policy reform and changing public policy away from the current War on Drugs. No charge. Despite political bias, posted articles are from any point of view; they need only to be about licit and illicit drugs and/or drug policy to qualify to be added to the database. Built and maintained by activists and volunteers. Updated daily, and thus contains up-to-the-minute articles. Hits come in one list, rather than in small groups. Searches can be done by subject, country, state, news source, and type of article. Truncation is built automatically into the searches. Articles can be sent via email. Articles do not come up in chronological order. Headings of citations are inconsistent. There are abbreviations for some major newspapers. Citations give number of lines, no number of words.

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National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894
U.S. Toll Free:1-888-FINDNLM or 1-888-346-3656 – Local and International: 301-594-5983 – access@nlm.nih.gov
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
MEDLINE is the NLM’s online database that contains almost 11 million references, 4000 journals articles in the health sciences.  Some facts: Time covered. 1966 to the present Source. 3,900 journals in 40 languages; 52% published in the U.S. 88% of the current references are to articles in English 76% of the references have English abstracts Weekly update. 7,300 references are added weekly (almost 400,000 yearly) Broad coverage.  Basic research and the clinical sciences (including nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, and allied health).

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NCJRS Abstracts Database

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS), P.O. Box 6000, Rockville, MD 20849-6000 - 800-851-3420 or 301-519-5500 - The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 160,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Linked to another NCJRS search site with full-text sources for more than 1,500 federal sources for crime and justice information, research, statistics, and funding opportunities from the U.S. Dept. of Justice and White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

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NREPP

National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices
CONTACT: Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), 1 Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857.  nrepp@samhsa.hhs.gov, 1-866-436-7377
NREPP is a searchable database of interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders.  SAMHSA has developed this resource to help people, agencies, and organizations implement programs and practices in their communities.  NREPP is a voluntary, self-nominating system in which intervention developers elect to participate. 
NREPP publishes a report called an intervention summary on this Web site for every intervention it reviews.  NREPP originated in 1997 in SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) as part of the Model Programs Initiative.  Then called the National Registry of Effective Prevention Programs, NREPP was envisioned as a way to help professionals in the field become better consumers of substance abuse prevention programs.  More than 1,100 programs were reviewed and more than 150 were designated as Model, Effective, or Promising Programs under this system.
In 2004, SAMHSA started the process of expanding this system to include interventions in mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment.

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Policy Information Exchange Online (PIE)  through 2005

Missouri Institute of Mental Health - Christina Sullivan, Library Director Christina.Sullivan@mimh.edu
Due to recent state funding cutbacks, we are unable to actively maintain the Policy Information Exchange website at this time. You may still access the current database of policy-related documents and other items on the site, but no new information will be added. and has not been updated since 2005.  PIE Online is a full-text database of over 5000 mental health related documents and reports. This include reports on the following subject areas: Alcohol Abuse, Annotated Bibliographies. Best Practice Models, Children, Homelessness, Consumers, Cultural Competence, Drug Abuse, Compulsive Gambling, Laws and Legislation, Managed Care, Mental Health Planning, Mental Health Program Evaluation, Mentally Ill Offenders, Methamphatamine, Needle Exchange Programs, Practice Guidelines, Privacy Issues, and Violence.

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Smoking and Health Database

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Comprehensive coverage of the smoking literature including biomedical, psycho-social, law, and policy. Since 1964. Approximately 62,000 records including abstracts. Approximately 1,800 records are added each year. Mainly journal articles, technical reports, and government documents. Available as a CD-ROM product from the U.S. Government Printing Office. Extensive online help available.

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Substance Abuse Counseling Certification Requirements (SACCR)

Addiction Technology Transfer Centers - This database contains basic information on a variety of state, national, and international bodies that offer credentialing for drug and alcohol counselors.

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Substance Abuse Information Database (SAID)

U.S. Department of Labor - Developed to provide information to businesses about workplace substance abuse and how to establish workplace substance abuse programs, designed for the needs of small- and medium-sized businesses. Contains abstracts and/or full-text of selected items.

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Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator (SATFL)

The Locator is a searchable directory of more then 11,000 drug and alcohol treatment programs in the U.S. Searching is by geographic area, and can be as specific as to ZIP code.

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Substance Use Screening & Assessment Instruments

This database is intended to help clinicians and researchers find questionnaires and measures used for screening and assessment of substance use and substance use disorders. It includes instruments with proven clinical utility and research validity, as well as newer instruments that have not yet been thoroughly evaluated but may be of interest to someone doing research on AOD assessment. Records cite the name, acronym, and developer(s) of the measures as well as a brief description. They are indexed by population group and administration format (e.g. self- or clinician-administered), among other criteria. Records include information about scoring and administration, psychometrics, source, and related references. Instruments that are in the public domain can be downloaded in PDF format or are linked to a web site. For instruments that are proprietary, information about their availability and pricing is given if known. Other features of the web site include a brief glossary of terms about assessment, an annotated list of resources for finding instruments. The database currently has records on more than 500 instruments and is updated regularly. The database was developed by SALIS members from the University of Washington Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute Library.

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Tobacco Industry Documents (TID)

U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Office on Smoking and Health - This is a single federal source for Internet access to more than 27 million pages of tobacco industry documents (called the 4B index) that illustrate the health dangers of tobacco. Users may conduct full-text searches of key documents made public by state lawsuits, congressional subpoenas, and the November 1998 master settlement agreement between the states and tobacco companies. This is the only place where the entire index of documents housed at the Minnesota Tobacco Document Depository is merged and available online in a searchable format, with a similar full-text searchable database for nearly 7,000 selected British American Tobacco company documents stored in Guildford, England. Includes links to eleven tobacco-related sites that have tobacco documents online. Ongoing additions and updates.

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