Links & Partners
- Action on Alcohol
and Teens - A Citizens' Group
A growing network of Minnesota citizens working together to reduce youth
access to alcohol and save lives.
- Action
Cost Calculator- The George Washington University Medical Center
New web-based calculator helps communities measure alcohol's toll on kids.
- Alcohol
Abuse in the News
About.com has everything about anything. This site also contains multiple
links to articles on alcohol abuse
in the news.
- Alcohol
Free Children (Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free)
Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free, a unique coalition of more than
30 Governors' spouses, Federal
agencies, and public and private organizations,
is an initiative to prevent the use of alcohol by children ages
9 to 15.
- Alcohol
Policy Information System
The Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS) is an electronic resource
that provides 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.
- Alcohol
Screening
Search this database of over 12,000 alcohol and drug abuse treatment programs
to find the facilities
nearest
you.
- Australian Drug Information
Network
Linking people to a comprehensive range of websites and information resources
on alcohol and other drugs.
- American Public Health
Association
APHA is a quality resource for public health professionals. With more
than a century of achievements, APHA
is on the forefront of disease prevention
and health promotion
- Booze
News (Washington Report)
Produced by the Alcohol Policies Project of the Center for Science in
the Public Interest, Washington Report
provides online information and
updates about federal and state alcohol-policy issues, including alcohol
advertising and marketing, labeling, product development, taxation, and
industry political and
commercial initiatives.
- Campus Health and Saftey
Rich in content, this site is loaded with over 700 articles of relevant research, references,
resources, and
Web sites - a one-stop shop for information and resources to help address
these campus problems. The
Center for College Health and Safety's (CCHS) environmental
prevention approach is infused throughout the
site, with a large section specifically
devoted to the elements of this approach.
- Center on Alcohol Marketing
and Youth
The Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at Georgetown University monitors
the marketing practices of
the alcohol industry to focus attention and
action on industry practices that jeopardize the health and safety
of
America's youth.
- Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as
the lead federal agency for
protecting the health and safety of people
- at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance
health
decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships.
- Center for Enforcing
Underage Drinking Laws
The Center provides science-based, practical, and effective training and
technical assistance to States and
communities involved in enforcing underage
alcohol access and use laws.
- Center for Science
in the Public Interest
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is a nonprofit education
and advocacy organization that
focuses on improving the safety and nutritional
quality of our food supply and on reducing the carnage
caused by alcoholic
beverages.
- Common
Cause
Common Cause is a nonprofit, nonpartisan citizen's lobbying organization
promoting open, honest and
accountable government.
- Common
Sense for Community Change
Thought-provoking, inspirational and informative. Regardless of the type of
community change you want to
make, this book will demystify the process by
providing the critical steps needed to make change happen at
the local level.
- Core Institute
Core Institute is the leading research, assessment and development organization
serving alcohol and drug
prevention programs across the nation.
- Designated Driver Gift Cards
"Your Designated Driver on Me" MasterCard Gift Card allows you to give your
employees,friends,and family
members a Pre-Paid Alternative to Drunk
Driving.
- Department of Health
and Human Services
The department of health and human services is the United States government's
principal agency for
protecting the health of all Americans and providing
essential human services, especially for those who are
least able to help
themselves.
- Fetal Alcohol
and Drug Unit
The Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit is a research unit dedicated to the prevention,
intervention and treatment of
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Fetal Alcohol
Effects (FAE).
- Harvard
School of Public Health
College Alcohol Study
- Hazelden
Hazelden is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people recover
from alcoholism and other
drug addiction.
- Higher Education Center
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Higher Education Center
provides support to all institutions
of higher education in their efforts
to address alcohol and other drug problems.
- Indiana Prevention
Resource Center
The Indiana Prevention Resource Center at Indiana University is a statewide
clearinghouse for prevention
technical assistance and information about
alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs for the State of Indiana.
- Institute
for Public Strategies
The Institute for Public Strategies (IPS), provides leadership and strategies
which support changes in public
and private policy & community standards
and norms.
- The International Council
on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety
The International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS)
is an independent nonprofit body
whose only goal is to reduce mortality
and morbidity brought about by misuse of alcohol and drugs by
operators
of vehicles in all modes of transportation.
- Join Together
Online
Join Together, founded in 1991, supports community-based efforts to reduce,
prevent, and treat substance
abuse across the nation.
- The
Marin Institute. Preventing Alcohol Problems
The Marin Institute for the prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems.
The public health approach to
prevention: Creating an environment that
helps individuals make healthy choices and requires responsible
action
from government and business.
- Minnesota Institute of
Public Health
The Minnesota Institute of Public Health is a group of dedicated people
who work with individuals and
organizations to safeguard and protect the
public health.
- Monitoring
the Future
Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes,
and values of American secondary
school students, college students, and
young adults.
- Mothers Against
Drunk Driving
MADD is a 501(c)(3) non-profit grass roots organization with more than
600 chapters nationwide. MADD is
not a crusade against alcohol consumption.
Our focus is to look for effective solutions to the drunk driving
and
underage drinking problems, while supporting those who have already experienced
the pain of these
senseless crimes.
- National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) supports
and conducts biomedical and
behavioral research on the causes, consequences,
treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and
alcohol-related problems.
- National Council on
Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD) provides
education, information,
help and hope to the public. It advocates prevention,
intervention and treatment through offices in New York
and Washington,
and a nationwide network of Affiliates.
- National Institutes of
Health
Begun as a one-room Laboratory of Hygiene in 1887, the National Institutes
of Health today is one of the
world's foremost medical research centers,
and the Federal focal point for medical research in the U.S.
- National Organization
on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
NOFAS is a nonprofit organization founded in 1990 dedicated to eliminating
birth defects caused by alcohol
consumption during pregnancy and improving
the quality of life for those individuals and families affected.
NOFAS,
the only national organization focusing solely on FAS, takes a multicultural
approach to prevention
and healing.
- Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention
To provide national leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent
and respond to juvenile delinquency
and victimization.
- Pacific Institute for
Research and Evaluation
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) is one of the nation's
preeminent independent, nonprofit
organizations merging scientific knowledge
and proven practice to create solutions that improve the health,
safety
and well-being of individuals, communities, nations, and the world.
- Parenting Teens
When it comes to parenting teens today, you can never have too much information and that is exactly what we
offer. We have organized our articles by topic: Teen Health; Education; Troubled Teens; Teen Drug Abuse;
Tips For Parenting Teens; and Other Teen Issues. All of the articles featured on this site have been written by
parents that have gained experience by raising teens of their own.
- Prevention First
Health and Well-being Are Basic Human Rights. That's the core belief that
drives the people and programs
of Prevention First, Incorporated. It is
the dedication to this belief that keeps us unique and important as an
Illinois health protection program.
- Sober 24
Sober24 is a safe, supportive "Virtual Fellowship" for those
in recovery from alcohol and drug abuse and the
friends and family who
love them.
- Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
SAMHSA is the Federal agency charged with improving the quality and availability
of prevention, treatment,
and rehabilitative services in order to reduce
illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from
substance
abuse and mental illnesses. Be sure to check out this press release 4/30/04
on drunk driving and
restricted licenses.
- Take It Back
A national movement led by youth to reduce alcohol problems and increase the health
and safety of youth.
Take It Back is not a program, cirriculum or organization.
Take It Back is about re-claiming what has been
taken from youth due to alcohol.
This includes their safety, dignity, culture, good health and future.
- The National Clearinghouse
for Alcohol and Drug Information
Prevention Online (Prevline) is SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol
and Drug Information: a
service of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration.
- The National PTA Magazine
National PTA is the largest volunteer child advocacy organization in the
United States. A not-for-profit
association of parents, educators, students,
and other citizens active in their schools and communities, PTA
is a leader
in reminding our nation of its obligations to children.
- The Online Recovery
Resource Directory
People do recover, every single day. From alcoholism, drug addiction,
mental illness, abuse and trauma,
dual diagnosis and more, people do get
better. They rarely do it alone. If help is what you seek, we hope
you'll
find it here...
- The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation was established as a national philanthropy
in 1972 and today it is
the largest US foundation devoted to improving
the health and health care of all Americans.
- University
of Minnesota Alcohol Epidemiology Program
The Alcohol Epidemiology Program (AEP), directed by Alexander C. Wagenaar,
PhD, is a research program
within the School of Public Health at the University
of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The mission of the AEP is to
conduct advanced
research to discover effective community and policy interventions to reduce
alcohol-related social and health problems.
- Wisconsin Clearinghouse
for Prevention Resources
The Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Prevention Resources develops, produces
and disseminates educational
materials, offers prevention services, and
provides information throughout Wisconsin. These resources
promote resiliency
and help to build healthy individuals, families and communities.