Addict in the family – how to cope with the long haul
A web published version of Dr Andrew Byrne’s book Addict in the family – how to cope with the long haul. |
Addiction Treatment Forum
Addiction Treatment Forum has reported on substance abuse and addiction therapies, research, news, and events of interest to both healthcare professionals and patients since 1992. Although many treatment options and healthcare topics of concern are regularly discussed, an important focus is on methadone maintenance for opioid-addiction treatment. |
Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users’ League (AIVL)
This user-led site contains information about harm reduction with regard to injecting and other illicit drugs and hepatitis C and HIV. |
Benzodiazepine addiction, withdrawal and recovery
This web site is dedicated to sufferers of iatrogenic benzodiazepine tranquilliser addiction and boasts articles, advice and a discussion forum. |
Bluelight
Bluelight is an international message board that educates the public about responsible drug use (with a focus on MDMA) by promoting free discussion. It advocates harm reduction and attempts to eliminate misinformation. |
COCA
COCA supports drug professionals and organisations with issues relating to stimulant drugs such as crack, cocaine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and ecstasy. It does this through the provision of information, advice, drug training and needs analysis |
Counselling Directory
This is a free, confidential service providing a searchable directory of counsellors. Each counsellor on the site who has submitted their profile has either sent the site owners a copy of their qualifications and insurance cover, or is registered with a professional body online with recognised codes of ethics and practice. |
Drug interactions table
This table is designed as a hypothesis testing, teaching and reference tool for physicians and researchers interested in drug interactions that are the result of competition for, or effects on the human cytochrome P450 system. |
Drug War Facts
Drug War Facts provides reliable information with applicable citations on important public health and criminal justice issues. It is updated regularly and most charts, facts and figures are from government sources, government-sponsored sources, peer reviewed journals and occasionally newspapers. In all cases the source is cited so that journalists, scholars and students can verify, check context and obtain additional information. Its mission is to offer useful facts, cited from authoritative sources, to a debate that is often characterized by myths, error, emotion and dissembling. It believes that in time an informed society will correct its errors and generate wiser policies. |
DrugScope
Drugscope’s aim is to inform policy development and reduce drug-related risk.
DrugScope provides authoritative and reliable information on all aspects of drug policies and problems. It publishes a wide range of reference guides, books and journals for professionals and the general public. The DrugScope Information Service allows access to a multi-disciplinary library of over 100,000 documents. This website provides an online encycopaedia of drugs and directory of help sources. |
Drugtext
The main purpose of drugtext and drugtext foundation is the dissemination and production of information on substance use, addiction, harm reduction, international and national drug policy. This website has extensive libraries. |
Dual diagnosis website
Dual diagnosis refers to co-occurring mental illness, drug addiction and/or alcoholism in various combinations. This site is designed to provide information and resources for service providers, consumers, and family members who are seeking assistance and/or education in this field. |
Erowid
Erowid is a member-supported organization providing access to reliable, non-judgmental information about psychoactive plants and chemicals and related issues. It works with academic, medical, and experiential experts to develop and publish new resources, as well as to improve and increase access to already existing resources. |
European network for the target group of mobile drug users
This website offers information about drug policies, drug related mobility and client practice in most European countries. |
Exchange supplies
Exchange supplies provide comprehensive free online information on drugs, harm reduction, needle exchange, safer injecting, and drug treatment. Their conference archives are an excellent source of information on all of the above, as provided by leaders in the field. |
Future opioids
This site looks at future possibilities for mental health management through the use of opioids, as well as examining the current situation for those who self-medicate with opioids and some of the pharmacological and psychological arguments for doing so. The site’s reference section offers excellent information on topics associated with opioid use. |
Heroin Maintenance Library
This page provides a suggested bibliography for heroin maintenance and links to several of the documents on the list. |
HIT
HIT delivers effective interventions on drugs, community safety and other public health concerns. It produces publications, runs mass media campaigns, delivers training, organises conferences and provides consultancy to individuals, community groups, health and social care and criminal justice agencies locally, nationally and at an international level.
Its safer injecting publications are particularly good: http://www.hit.org.uk/publicationsBySubject.asp?subject=Safer%2DInjecting&sub=32 |
Join Together
Join Together Online (JTO) is a comprehensive network of free Internet services supporting community-based efforts to address substance abuse and gun violence in the United States. |
KFx
KFx seeks to balance a large amount of common sense with up-to-date harm reduction and drug policy information. It seeks to locate all this within an accessible format for both specialists and non-specialists alike. The aim here is to make a subject that is typically the source of controversy, misinformation and myth as open, fair and balanced as possible. |
Lifeline
Lifeline’s principal activities are to assist persons and their families and dependents affected by the misuse of drugs and to provide a training and advisory service to persons and organisations who deal with the misuse of drugs and sexually transmitted diseases. |
Methadone Anonymous Support
This is a US site supporting Methadone Anonymous. The Methadone Anonymous community believe that methadone is a therapeutic tool of recovery that may or may not be discontinued in time, dependent upon the needs of the individual. Methadone Anonymous believe that continued abstinence from illicit opiates and other chemicals, including alcohol, is the foremost goal of recovery. |
Narcotic analgesic dosage conversion chart
A look-up chart of therapeutically equivalent dosages of narcotic analgesics. |
Partyvibe
Drugs information, help and awareness:
This site contains an archive of information regarding drug use compiled by a professional drugs charity care worker with more than a decade of support experience for drug users. The site's creator believes people will use drugs despite the costs, risks and dangers associated with their nature and legality so it's important for them to know what to expect and how to stay safe in order to minimize the risk to themselves.
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Queensland Injectors Health Network (QuIHN)
QuIHN works to support and promote the well being of those currently using illicit drugs, or who have used illicit drugs in the past. Support is also provided to families, friends, professionals and the wider community when they are affected by the illicit drug use of others.
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Recreational Drugs Information
A general site on recreational drugs with a wide range of legal, political, medical and scientific information. The history, growth, medical and recreational uses of marijuana, hashish, mushrooms, mescaline, LSD, cocaine, and opium are explored. |
Release
Release offers a range of specialist services to professionals and the public concerning drugs and the law, including its legal helpline and heroin helpline. Release provides free, professional, non-judgmental and confidential advice to drug users, their families, friends, and statutory and voluntary agencies. Its aim is to promote understanding of drug-related issues and to support an often marginalised section of society. |
Schaffer Library of Drug Policy
This is an impressive information resource on drugs and drug policy. |
The Hepatitis C Trust
This organisation offers information, advice and support for those affected by Hepatitis C. |
The Ibogaine Dossier
The Ibogaine Dossier is an extensive library dedicated to providing information on ibogaine, an experimental anti-addictive medication. |
The Lycaeum
The Lycaeum Entheogen Database (Leda) was created to organize the complex and ever-expanding web of entheogen information. Its intent is to absorb all available entheogenic knowledge, cross-reference it, and make it browseable through an intuitive interface. |
Travel Guide Index
This page is an extremely useful summary of different countries’ rules around traveling within their borders while on a methadone prescription. However, it is worth noting that the information is not updated particularly frequently and the Alliance advises all travellers to contact the embassy of the country they are visiting to double check any information found on this site. This information is provided by the Institute for the Furtherance of Qualitative Drug Research, Acceptance-Oriented Drug Work, and Rational Drug Policy. |
www.cocaine.org.uk
An information resource on cocaine and its derivatives. |
