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About This Guide

This Research Guide will assist you in finding information about drug abuse, addiction and drug treatment programs. Also included are drug-related legal issues such as drug testing in the workplace and the civil rights of workers being tested.

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Credo Reference
A collection of 100 reference tools that may be searched collectively or individually. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, statistical sources, biographical tools, thesauri, books of quotations, image collections, and more.
Drug Testing
Press releases, publications, legal documents, resources and fact sheets on Drug Testing.
MEDLINEplus: Drug Abuse
National Library of Medicine Web site offers information about drug abuse, abused drugs, treatment, clinical trials, research, law and policies, and statistics.
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Abuse: Prevline
Online information from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (OVRC) provides viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles related to controversial social issues.
Public Agenda Issue Guides: Illegal Drugs
Public Agenda, a nonpartisan opinion research and civic engagement organization, presents public opinion and arguments for and against policies related to illegal drug use.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Web site offers information and research needed by undergraduate and graduate students, as well as practitioners.