Drug and Alcohol-Exposed Children
Anti-Meth Website
www.anti-meth.com
Features information about meth, programs, and meth in the news.
Blending Perspectives and Building Common Ground: A Report to
Congress on Substance Abuse and Child Protection
http://www.aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/subabuse99/subabuse.htm
An extensive report on substance-related child abuse.
Clandestine Meth Labs
http://caag.state.ca.us/publications/methlabs/index.htm
Maps from the California Attorney General's office.
Clubdrugs.org
www.clubdrugs.org
Sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, this site provides
scientific information about club drugs.
Drug Enforcement Administration
www.usdoj.gov/dea/
Provides information on the agency, press and congressional testimony
archives, intelligence reports, and statistics.
Drug Exposed Infants
http://www.calib.com/naic/pubs/s_drug.cfm
Statistics regarding prevalence of exposure.
Drug-Free Communities Support Program
ojjdp.ncjrs.org/dfcs/index.html
A federal training and technical assistance program.
Drug-free Resource Net
www.drugfreeamerica.org
Features Parenting Resources, Drug Information, and News. Site
of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA), a private non-profit,
non-partisan coalition of professionals from the communications
industry whose mission is to reduce demand for illicit drugs in
America through media communication.
Family Empowerment Network: Support for Families Affected by
FAS and FAE
http://www.fammed.wisc.edu/fen/
The Family Empowerment Network provides information and support
for professionals and people living with loved ones that have
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Fetal Alcohol Effects. The website provides
information, resources and education info.
Fetal Alcohol Effect/FAS
http://www.thearc.org/misc/faslist.html
This online resource guide provides information to people living
with or caring for children with fetal alcohol syndrome.
Hazelden
www.hazelden.org
Hazelden is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people
recover from alcoholism and other drug addiction and provides
residential and outpatient treatment for adults and young people,
programs for families affected by chemical dependency, and training
for a variety of professionals. Hazelden is also known as the
world's premier publisher of information on this subject and related
areas.
Koch Crime Institute
www.kci.org
Provides online learning for professionals in education, law enforcement,
and the public sector. Promotes the dissemination of information
about effective solutions for juvenile offenders.
Life or Meth
www.lifeormeth.org
Features information on meth and its effects, a crank hotline,
and information on how to get help.
National Clearinghouse on Alcohol and Drug Information
www.health.org/
Extensive database of articles and publications on various drugs,
populations and situations.
National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~aiarc/
Information and resource on children who are abandoned or at risk
of abandonment due to prenatal substance abuse and/or HIV.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
www.drugabuse.gov
NIDA supports over 85 percent of the world's research on the health
aspects of drug abuse and addiction, including the most fundamental
and essential questions about drug abuse, ranging from the molecule
to managed care, and from DNA to community outreach research.
Website features many fact sheets on drugs and research.
No Safe Haven: Children of Substance-Abusing Parents
www.casacolumbia.org/publications1456/publications_show.htm?doc_id=7167
A two-year national study of the devastating impact that substance
abuse has had on child abuse and neglect. According to CASA, "the
study concludes that substance abuse and addiction dangerously
compromise or destroy the ability of parents to provide a safe
and nurturing home for children and confound the child welfare
system's ability to protect these children." The report features
key statistics and survey results demonstrating the depth of the
problem, a description of the child welfare system in "chaos,"
and descriptions of innovative and successful programs.
No Place to Hide: Substance Abuse in Mid-Size Cities and Rural
America
www.casacolumbia.org/publications1456/publications_show.htm?doc_id=23734
Report demonstrates that smoking, drug use, and alcohol use among
8th graders is more prevalent in rural areas than in urban areas.
This crisis is fueled by the fact that "methamphetamine use
has hit many areas of the West and Midwest especially hard, placing
enormous pressure on hospitals, child welfare systems, treatment
and law enforcement." The report asserts that emergency Federal
aid is needed to stamp out illegal drug production in rural America.
The report also delves into several solutions to the problem.
Office of National Drug Control Policy
www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/
Provides numerous resources on Prevention and Education; Treatment;
Science, Medicine, and Technology; News, Facts, Policy, and Statistics.
Protecting Children in Substance-Abusing Families
http://www.calib.com/nccanch/pubs/usermanuals/subabuse/
This online guide has comprehensive sections on assessing children
and families. It includes topics such as: identifying alcohol
and/or other drug use, special risks of children of chemically
involved parents, developmental assessment of prenatally drug-exposed
children, comprehensive family assessment, and areas of assessment.
Reporting Laws: Drug Exposed Infants
http://www.calib.com/nccanch/statutes/readyreference.cfm
Child abuse and neglect state statutes series ready reference
listing.
Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program
www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SDFS/
The Federal government's primary vehicle for reducing drug, alcohol
and tobacco use, and violence, through education and prevention
activities in our nation's schools.
Stopdrugs.org
www.stopdrugs.org/methcrisis.html
Stopdrugs.org, a website of the California Department of Justice,
features a special section on "The Meth Crisis." It
has photos and information to help people recognize labs, as well
as information on what to do if a lab is discovered.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services
www.samhsa.gov/
The Federal agency charged with improving the quality and availability
of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services in order
to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting
from substance abuse and mental illnesses. Site features substance
abuse/mental health information, as well as resources for those
who need help with alcohol, drug, or mental health problems.
SAMHSA Center for Substance Prevention
www.samhsa.gov/centers/csap/csap.html
SAMHSA Center for Substance Treatment
www.samhsa.gov/centers/csat/csat.html
Substance Abusing Child Welfare Parents: Treatment and Child
Welfare Outcomes
http://www.childrensrights.org/policy/substance_abusing_child_welfare_parents.htm
This study considers the extent to which mothers and fathers of
children in foster care succeed in overcoming substance abuse
problems after they are referred for substance abuse assessment
and treatment.
Treatment Improvement Exchange (TIE)
www.treatment.org
The Treatment Improvement Exchange (TIE) is a resource sponsored
by the Division of State and Community Assistance of the Center
for Substance Abuse Treatment to provide information exchange
between CSAT staff and State and local alcohol and substance abuse
agencies. The TIE Contract is funded by the Center for Substance
Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. |
