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. 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 me 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. www.sfn.org/briefings
This is the entire content (text and figures) of a textbook that was entitled 'Principles of Behavioral Pharmacology'. The authors are professors at Rutgers and Drew Universities in New Jersey. www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lwh/drugs
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 www.dd-database.org
An online magazine series exploring the brain's response to drugs. In this issue, it investigates many facts about the stimulant drug methamphetamine. www.nida.nih.gov/MOM/METH/MOMMETH1.html
The PRG of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics in San Francisco conducts clinical trials of medications and therapeutic interventions for the treatment of addiction. www.research-hafci.org/home.asp