Psychoactive Drugs Links

1. Factual links

   Some of the websites providing factual information on Psychoactive Drugs:

   • 1.1 International institutions addressing psychoactive drugs
   • 1.2 Q&As and FAQs on psychoactive drugs
   • 1.3 News sites on drugs and drug addiction
   • 1.4 Websites for the non-specialist on psychoactive drugs
   • 1.5 Others
2. Other Views

1. Factual links

1.1 International institutions addressing psychoactive drugs

• The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC), that fights against illicit drugs and international crime, provides all kinds of information on psychoactive drugs and on drug abuse at: www.unodc.org/unodc/index.html 
• The World Health Organization (WHO) provides links to information on psychoactive drugs at: www.who.int/topics/psychotropic_drugs/en/ , and on substance dependence at: www.who.int/topics/substance_abuse/en/ 

1.2 Q&As and FAQs on psychoactive drugs

• The Addiction Treatment Forum provides frequently asked questions and answers on drug addiction and treatment with methadone at:
  www.atforum.com/SiteRoot/pages/faqs/faqs.shtml 
• The US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides FAQs on drug abuse at: www.drugabuse.gov/tools/FAQ.html 

1.3 News sites on drugs and drug addiction

• The Addiction Treatment Forum provides news and updates on drug addiction at:
  www.atforum.com/SiteRoot/pages/news_updates/news_updates.shtml 
• The US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides news on drug abuse at: www.drugabuse.gov/NIDANews.html 
• Medical News Today proposes news articles on psychoactive drugs and drug addiction at: www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/alcohol/ 
• Dana.org provides links and news on substance addiction in relationship with the brain at:
  www.dana.org/resources/brainweb/detail.aspx 

1.4 Websites for the non-specialist on psychoactive drugs

• The Spanish institute for addiction research (Instituto para el Estudio de las Adicciones) explains the relationship between drugs and the brain with clear and simple animations at: www.drogasycerebro.com 
• The US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides all kinds of information & facts, education resources and materials on various drugs of abuse at: www.drugabuse.gov 
• HereToHelp.bc.ca proposes Fact Sheets on various psychoactive drugs and on drug addiction at: www.heretohelp.bc.ca/publications/factsheets 
• Drug War Facts provides information on different drug-related topics at:
  www.drugwarfacts.org/index2.htm 
• The Alliance provides links to publications, articles, reports, and presentations on treatment against drug addiction at: www.m-alliance.org.uk/weblinks/catid,17/Itemid,49/ 
• The Canadian Centre for Addiction & Mental Health (CAMH) provides all kinds of information on drug addiction: www.camh.net/About_Addiction_Mental_Health 

1.5 Others

• The US Treatment Research Institute (TRI), an organization dedicated to reducing the impacts of drug abuse by disseminating evidence-based information, published an article entitled “Drug Dependence, A Chronic Medical Illness Implications for Treatment, Insurance, and Outcomes Evaluation":
   www.tresearch.org/resources/pubs/09_McLellan_JAMA.pdf
• Foresight published a report entitled "Ethical Aspects of Developments in Neuroscience and Drug Addiction" within the framework of a project whose scope was “to explore the implications of future science, including social sciences, on addiction, drug use and treatments.":
   www.foresight.gov.uk/Previous_Projects/Brain_Science_Addiction_and_Drugs/

2. Other Views

Links in this section have been selected as examples of other views on Psychoactive Drugs. This list of links is only a sample and it is not suggested that it is complete nor that it is fully representative of all the existing views. GreenFacts asbl takes no position concerning the views expressed in these linked documents.

• Ecstasy.org, a website attributing many positive impacts to ecstasy use, proposes “interviews with two foremost researchers into neurotoxicity who hold opposing views" on the toxicity of ecstasy:
  http://ecstasy.org/info/interviews.html