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Comprehensive web-site with research and treatment reports and news. Includes a site for teachers and students with educational materials. Fact sheets on drug abuse, including the most recent economic costs report.
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National Institute on Drug Abuse  Education resources materials on drugs of abuse, marijuana, ecstasy, smoking, steroids more) Parents Teachers Drug information facts, education materials, curriculum guides, classroom tools more) Researchers Health Professionals Grants funding, treatment prevention research, clinical resources, workshops more) En Espaol Recursos y...
http://www.nida.nih.gov

Research Forum and Resources for the Neurobiology of Addiction hosted by The Wheeler Center at the University of California, San Francisco. Online discussions and learning tools that help in understanding the neuroscience behind addiction and the brain mediation of reward.
http://www.AddictionScience.org

For the layperson interested in the science behind addiction: and in the brain in general. Current topics include: Nicotine and the brain, Addictions path, the brains stash, and the opiate receptor.
http://www.sfn.org/briefings/

Drug Discrimination is widely recognised as one of the major methods for studying the behavioral and neuropharmacological effects of drugs and plays an important role in drug discovery and investigations of drug abuse. This page provides access to Dr. Ian Stolerman's ongoing Comprehensive Bibliography of Drug Discrimination Research. Search bibliography for combinations of training drug, pretreatment drug, methodology.
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Welcome to the Drug Discrimination Bibliographic Database  Search enclose phrases like cocaine training in quotes)...
http://www.dd-database.org/

Visual guide to brain regions involved in the mediation of cannabis actions - geared to the lay person. Links to a variety of articles on cannabis/Marijuana.
http://marijuana.newscientist.co...sight/drugs/marijuana/brain.html

An online magazine series exploring the brain's response to drugs. In this issue, it investigates many facts about the stimulant drug methamphetamine.
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Mind Over Matter Methamphetamine  Welcome to my magazine series exploring the brain's response to drugs. In this issue, we'll investigate many fascinating facts about the stimulant drug methamphetamine. Some of this information was only recently discovered by leading scientists. Speed, meth, chalk, crystal, ice,...
http://www.nida.nih.gov/MOM/METH/MOMMETH1.html

Free online books, journals. The best collection on intervention techniques, substance abuse, recovery, relapse prevention, sobriety.
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Addiction and alcoholism treatment Free resources for therapists e-help.com  In this addiction and alcoholism treatment resource page we have collected the best tools like free e-books, journals, patient education handouts… and other peer reviewed reference as shown in the table above. To find info on a related topic see...
http://www.e-help.com/addiction_and_alcoholism_treatment.htm

The PRG of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics in San Francisco conducts clinical trials of medications and therapeutic interventions for the treatment of addiction.
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Pharmacology Research Group Addiction Treatment Research  Francisco has been conducting clinical trials of medications and therapeutic interventions for the treatment of addiction since 1990. Historically, the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics have been on the forefront of treatment provision for people suffering from addictions. The clinics have always...
http://www.research-hafci.org/home.asp