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Drug and Alcohol Issues

• Alcohol: Problems and Solutions--a non-hyped look at the actual facts on alcohol abuse, and policy and legal solutions to alcohol abuse-related problems.
• Alcohol and Spring Break-- a project of the Trauma Foundation, it provides news stories, fact sheets (alcohol advertising, college binge drinking, economic costs, etc.).
• Alcohol, Tobacco, and Controlled Substances: A Legal Overview -- full-text documents and laws
• Club Drugs --Statistics, legislation, and more links.
• College Drinking -- from the Nat'l Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
• Drug Abuse Statistics--the official information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
• Date Rape Drugs - a list of U.S. government documents. Click here for more info on Date Rape, usually associated with substance use.
• Drug Statistics-- Statistics on use and consequences of alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs.
• Drug Testing -- court cases, in schools and in workplaces.
• Drug Trafficking Organizations  -- from the U.S. DEA.
• Ephedra and Ephedrine for Weight Loss and Athletic Performance Enhancement: Clinical Efficacy and Side Effects.-- all aspects of this controversial drug. table of contents in html, but the full-text content in .pdf format.
• Exposing the Myth of Smoked Medical Marijuana -- from the US-DEA
• Globalisation, Drugs, and Criminalisation: Final Research Report on Brazil, China, India, and Mexico (.pdf format) -----   a 409 page report put out by UNESCO, which includes which include "Drug Trafficking and the State," "Drug Trafficking, Criminal Organisations and Money Laundering," "Social and Cultural Dimensions of Drug Trafficking," and "Methodological, Institutional and Policy Dimensions of the Research on Drug Trafficking." For the serious student.
• Illegal Drugs: Understanding the Issue -- The Understanding the Issue section lays out the facts and policy alternatives, while the Public Opinion section offers a detailed profile of public thinking about the issue.
• Marijuana -- U.S. government documents online 
• Marijuana Special Report--the prestigious New Scientist examines the scientific evidence about marijuana's safety, effects on brain functioning, and addictive properties.
• Methamphetamine Facts and Statistics-- National Institute on Drug Abuse, a governmental agency within The National Institute of Health.
• Methamphetamine -- street names, drug seizures, arrests and more from the DEA, Dept. of Justice. Look on the menu to the left also. This site has a bibliography of more sources, some of them primary sources.
• Moyers on Addiction--nice set of links from PBS. Also try hitting the 'home' button for case studies.
• National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
• National Institutes of Health -- a report on the medical utility of marijuana.
• National Institute on Drug Abuse -- Common Drugs of Abuse
• OxyContin -- U.S. government resources
• Partnership for a Drug-Free America
• Science-based Facts on Drug Abuse and Addiction - from the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse
• Steroid Abuse
• TRAC DEA--info about the performance of the Drug Enforcement Agency.
• Yahoo's Drug Policy Index
• Youth Gang Drug Trafficking -- .pdf format.