The Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR), at the University of Maryland at College Park, provides comprehensive information on substance abuse for individuals, families, and communities.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse has information on drugs of abuse including publications, research and fact sheets.

SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) is the Nation's one-stop resource for information about substance abuse prevention and addiction treatment. The website allows you to search by drug type, and to request publications, find facts and statistics, order videotapes and other multimedia, and access additional resources.

Focus Adolescent Services is an internet clearinghouse of information resources and support including information for teens about drugs and substance abuse.

The Partnership for a Drug-Free America is a nonprofit coalition of communication, health, medical and educational professionals.

Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) is a police officer-led series of classroom lessons that teaches children from kindergarten through 12th grade how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug and violence-free lives.

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University is the only national organization, which brings together under one roof all the professional disciplines needed to study and combat abuse of all substances.

The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence fights the stigma and the disease of alcoholism and other drug addictions.

The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) is the nation's leading organization working to end the war on drugs.

Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults.

MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Publications

The World Health Organization, Management of Substance Aubse website contains information pertaining to psychoactive substance use and abuse, and also information about the World Health Organization's projects and activities in the areas of substance use and substance dependence.

The baseline National Comorbidity Survey (NCS), fielded from the fall of 1990 to the spring of 1992, was the first nationally representative mental health survey in the U.S. to use a fully structured research diagnostic interview to assess the prevalences and correlates of DSM-III-R disorders.