Cross-Cutting Issue: Substance Abuse

Educational Tools/Resources

• ACS's Alcohol and Injury
  This PowerPoint slide show with accompanying text, available in English and in Spanish, provides an overview of the alcohol and injury problem.
• CSAP's CSAP Training Library
  This library of training curricula is designed to augment knowledge and skills in alcohol, tobacco and other drug problem prevention. Courses for physicians and nurses, with trainer and participant materials, are included.
• CSAP's It Won't Happen to Me: Alcohol Abuse and Violence Against Women
  This Web-based course for consumers discusses substance abuse, violence against women, the connection between the two, signs and symptoms, myths, prevention, treatment and legal options.
• CSAP's Out of the Shadows: Uncovering Substance Use and Elder Abuse
  This Web-based course for professionals presents information about elder abuse, substance abuse as a risk factor, screening tools, intervention options and prevention strategies to curb the problem.
• CSAP's Silence Hurts: Alcohol Abuse and Violence Against Women
  This Web-based course for professionals provides information about alcohol abuse and several forms of violence against women, screening and assessment tools, prevention and intervention strategies, and legal issues.
• CSAT's Treatment Improvement Protocol Series (TIPS)
  TIPS are best practice guidelines on the treatment of substance abuse. Also see the TIPS-based Quick Reference Tools.
• NIDA's PowerPoint Slide Teaching Packets
  These are for health practitioners and others to make presentations to high school students. Titles include:
  • The Brain & the Actions of Cocaine, Opiates & Marijuana;
  • The Neurobiology of Drug Addiction;
  • Understanding Drug Abuse & Addiction: What Science Says;
  • The Neurobiology of Ecstasy (MDMA); and
  • Bringing the Power of Science to Bear on Drug Abuse and Addiction.
• NYT's Media Literacy for Drug Prevention (2001)
  This online guide for middle school educators includes ten lessons using the newspaper as a springboard to teach students to recognize media influences that can affect their decisions about substance use.

USPSTF's Screening for Alcohol Misuse (2004)

The U.S. Preventive Health Services Task Force evidence-based recommendation on screening and behavioral counseling to reduce adult alcohol misuse.

Reports/Publications

• Making Sense of Student Drug Testing: Why Educators are Saying No (2004)
  This booklet by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Drug Policy Alliance discusses the flaws in random student drug testing and promising alternatives.
• Monitoring the Future National Survey Results on Drug Use
  Monitoring the Future is a federally-funded annual study of behaviors and attitudes on drug use of secondary school students, college students, and young adults. The most recent publications of survey findings are available at this Web site.
• Risk and Protective Factors for Adolescent Drug Use: Findings from the 1999 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (2004)
  This Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration report presents national survey data relating to several aspects of risk and protective factors for substance use among youths age 12 to 17.
• What You Need to Know About Drug Testing in Schools
  This Office of National Drug Control Policy booklet is designed assist individuals in determining if student drug testing is appropriate for their schools. It describes the elements of a drug testing program and testing methods.
• Youth Gangs, Drugs and Violence Connection (1999)
  This Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention bulletin discusses the interrelationship of these factors to answer the question whether drug trafficking is a main cause of violence in youth gangs.

National Clearinghouse for Alcohol & Drug Information:

1-800-729-6686 or 1-800-487-4889 (TTY). (24-hour resource offering referrals and resource materials about substance abuse and treatment.) For an online directory of alcohol and drug abuse programs located around the country, access the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator at: http://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/

Links to Other Resources 

• Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), U.S. Dept. HHS
• offers information on substance abuse prevention, including state resources, drug-free workplace programs, training, technical assistance, and other programs such as:
  • a resource on model prevention programs;
  • access to prevention programs, evaluation, technical assistance, tutorials, and other resources
• Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY)
• provides research reports and other information on the effects of alcohol marketing practices on youth
• Health Professional Students for Substance Abuse Training (HPSSAT)
  offers health care professionals-in-training educational resources on substance abuse treatment and prevention
• Join Together Online
  offers Internet resources for community-based efforts to address substance abuse and gun violence
• National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University
  offers substance abuse resources, including center publications such as the annual National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse
• National Clearinghouse for Alcohol & Drug Information (NCADI), U.S. Dept. HHS
  offers information on drug and alcohol abuse, treatment and prevention, including several searchable databases and an online substance abuse treatment facility locator
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), U.S. Dept. HHS
  provides information on drugs of abuse, resources for researchers and health professionals, parents, teachers and students; offers companion Web sites such as:
  • about Ecstasy, GHB and others;  
  • for teens on the science behind drug abuse)
• Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Executive Office of the President
  provides information on the National Drug Control Strategy, drug-related statistics, economic costs of drug abuse, helpful links, publications, prevention programs and treatment strategies, state/local profiles and contacts
• Partnership for a Drug-Free America®
  offers information to help youth reject substance abuse, including tips for teens and parents, and a drug resource
• Project Cork
  offers information on substance abuse for health care providers and others, including PowerPoint presentations, a professional literature database, and clinical tools
• Trauma Foundation
  provides injury and violence prevention resources, including the Alcohol-Related Injury & Violence Project providing a resource manual and community tools