Research Based Resources

1) Drug Strategies, Inc.
www.drugstrategies.com
Drug Strategies promotes more effective approaches to the nation's drug problems and supports private and public efforts to reduce the demand for drugs through prevention, education, treatment, law enforcement and community initiatives.

2) Ensuring Solutions-George Washington University
www.ensuringsolutions.org
Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems is a health initiative at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, DC, that seeks to increase access to treatment for individuals with alcohol problems.

3) Monitoring the Future (MTF)
monitoringthefuture.org
Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults.

4) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
www.nida.nih.gov
One of 24 research institutes, centers and divisions overseen by the National Institutes of Health. NIDA supports over 85% of the world's research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction.

5) The National Center On Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA)
www.casacolumbia.org
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University is the only national organization, which brings together all the professional disciplines needed to study and combat abuse of all substances - alcohol, nicotine, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, performance enhancing drugs - in all sectors of society.