SAMHSA
Visit the SAMHSA web site. Go to the "Statistics" link. Then click on blue book that reads "Drug Abuse Warning Network" (DAWN). Look at the Table of Contents and find "Semi Annual Trends in Selected Metropolitan Areas." According to this preliminary report, which metropolitan areas in the United States used the most drugs in 1999?
Visit the SAMHSA's web site
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Many Topics Involving Drugs, Drug Use, and Abuse
If you are just looking around for topics on drug use this is a website to certainly explore. From binge drinking to drug testing, to HIV risk youth, to statistics, many topics are available on this website.
Visit the U.S. Department of Human Services web site
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Addiction and Mental Health
Latest information on addiction and mental health. This website has an enormous amount of information on this topic.
Are you thinnking about doing a research paper on addiction? This is one excellent website that you should explore.
Visit the Center for Addiction and Mental Health web site
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Gateway Theory
Interested in the covtroversey about Gateway Theory and/or unconventional arguments about drug use?
Do you blelive in Gatewary theory? Find out by reading further into this explanation about the progression to "harder" drugs from the use of milder types of drugs.
How accurante is the information on this website? Why does it contradict current governemnt findings?
At the bottom of this webpage, click on "drug war distortions" for a completely different view about drug use. Certainly interesting.
Write a position paper on this topic.
Visit the Commonsense for Drug Policy web site
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Theories of Drug Use
Want to go into more perspectives / theories on drug use?
If you found Chapter 2 interesting regarding the theoretical explanations of drug use, this website will certainly completment this interest.
The articles are informative and interesting!
Report on a theory or percpective not covered in Chapter 2 of Drugs and Society to the class or write a paper on this.
Visit the Theories on Drug Abuse: Selected Contemporary Perspectives web site
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Further Reseach on Illicit Drugs and Alcohol
Excellent website on at least 111 research articles on Drug Use and Abuse. Such topics as: Predictors of alcohol use among college students; Adults' drug use: relationship to perceived drug use of parents, friends while growing up, and present friends; Age and alcohol, marijuana and hard drug use; Nicotine: a gateway drug, etc, etc.
Many of these research articles can supplement research papers. Many topics about drug use and abuse are covered. A great source for further research.
Visit the Australian Government / Australian Institute of Criminology / Pathways Theory of Drug Use web site
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