Alcohol - Drug
Abuse & Addiction

The following resources will help your exploration of alcohol - drug abuse and addiction.

 Online Databases

Student Resource Center - Health Module
Includes more than 1,200 essays on medical and health-related topics, including diseases, treatments, and major historical figures in the fields of medicine, chemistry, biology, and related areas along with  photographs and diagrams.
Student Resource Center Gold - Offers more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts.  Hint: select Advanced Search to enter multiple keywords.


 Internet Sites


Alcohol Abuse: http://www.alcoholabuse.com/alcohol-detox.html

Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: http://www.medicinenet.com/alcohol_abuse_and_alcoholism/article.htm

Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism - Signs, Symptoms, Effects and What You Can Do: http://www.helpguide.org/mental/alcohol_abuse_alcoholism_signs_effects_treatment.htm

Alcohol Problems and Solutions: http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/alcoholabuse.html

The Cool Spot - Alcohol, Peer Pressure and Underage Drinking info for Young Teens: http://www.thecoolspot.gov/index.asp

Focus Adolescent Services - Drugs and Teen Substance Abuse: http://www.focusas.com/SubstanceAbuse.html

Free Vibe.com: http://www.freevibe.com/

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/

National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information:
www.health.org/govpubs/rpo926/

 National Institute on Drug Abuse: http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDAHome.html

ONDCP - Drug Facts: www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/

Partnership for a Drug Free America - For Teens: http://www.drugfree.org/

Teen Drug Abuse: http://teendrugabuse.us/drugsnschool.html

 

If you do not find what you're looking for in the above resources, try the search tips listed below.
 

 Internet Search Tips

  1. Type the URL (web site address) of a search directory/engine in the address box: ex: www.google.com or http://scholar.google.com/, etc.
     
  2. (Be sure to type the address exactly the way you see it, including any uppercase letters and punctuation).
     
  3. Type in keyword(s). (If your keyword has two parts such as: "drug abuse", be sure to put quotes around it so that the search engine only finds the Internet sites on drug abuse as opposed to all of the sites containing the word drug plus all of the sites containing the word abuse.
     

  4. If you would like to search for something specific about drug abuse, try a combined keyword search by adding a comma followed by a space and your other search term. For instance; if I wanted to find out about symptoms and treatment of drub abuse,  I would enter the following:

    "drug abuse", symptoms, treatment

    Hit Enter on your keyboard, or click on Search, then scan the description of the "hits" (entries) and click on the links that sound best.
     

  5. Be sure to evaluate each Internet site for the following:

     

  6. Remember: if you choose to use any information (text or graphics) found on an Internet source, 
    you must include it in your bibliography.

Remember:  YOU MUST CITE EVERY RESOURCE YOU USED to gather information on your 
Works Cited (Bibliography) page.  Use the Works Cited Guide to access MLA format.
 


 

Created by Liza Zandonella, Library Media Specialist.

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