Links
Thanks to the Pierian Centre for their support for our volunteer training programme
The Pierian Centre: www.pieriancentre.com
Local Organisations
Addiction Recovery Agency: www.addictionrecovery.org.uk
Advice and Counselling on Alcohol and Drugs: www.acad.org.uk
Bristol Drug Action Team: www.saferbristol.org.uk
Kwads - 'Supporting Drug and Alcohol Affected Families' : www.kwads.org.uk
Priority Youth Housing: www.priorityyouth.co.uk
UK Organisations
National Drugs Helpline: www.ndh.org.uk
Offers confidential advice and information about drugs and solvents, and trained advisors who provide support and information about local services
National Treatment Agency: www.nta.nhs.uk
DS Daily: http://www.dsdaily.org.uk/
A daily drug and alcohol news service.
D-2K: www.d-2k.co.uk
The site that helps you wise up about drugs
KFX - Learning of substance: www.ixion.demon.co.uk
Useful website with sections on drug awareness, advice for drug workers and courses.
Release: www.release.org.uk
Reputation for providing confidential and professional legal advice for those who come into contact with drugs
DrugScope: www.drugscope.org.uk
DrugScope is an independent organisation providing objective, accurate and current information on all aspects of drug misuse for professionals, policy makers and researchers.
Re-solv: www.re-solv.org
Solvent and volatile substance abuse (VSA).
Lifeline Project: www.lifeline.org.uk
Services include needle exchange, outreach, services for parents of drug users and publications.
Scottish Drugs Forum: www.sdf.org.uk
National non-government drugs policy and information agency.
Parents Against Drug Abuse: www.btinternet.com/~padahelp
BBC Kick the Habit: www.bbc.co.uk/health/kth/
Explores smoking, alcohol, drugs and other addictions with an Information pack available.
Roots 2 Life: www.roots2life.com/
Aimed at those of you who are in some way affected by homelessness, substance misuse or the care system.
Drugwatch: www.drugwatch.com/
Features extensive information about thousands of different medications and drugs currently on the market or previously available worldwide.
International and harm reduction
Exchange Supplies: www.exchangesupplies.org/
Comprehensive free online information on drugs, harm reduction, safer injecting and drug treatment
International Harm Reduction Association: www.ihra.net
The Lindesmith Centre: www.lindesmith.org
Drug policy research institute, USA
DRCNET: www.drcnet.org
Internet resource for drug policy reform, USA
Harm Reduction Coalition: www.harmreduction.org
NDARC: www.med.unsw.edu.au/ndarc/
Details of research and publications from the Centre which focuses on increasing the effectiveness of interventions for drug and alcohol problems in Australia.
Better World Advertising: www.socialmarketing.com
Social marketing campaigns on HIV/AIDS, drugs and health issues.
Sites for young people
Artskills: www.artskills.org
Web pages created by and for young people.
Richmond Drug Awareness Project: www.drugshouse.org.uk
Drug information site for young people, providing facts and covering a number of issues including drugs and racism, and the legalisation debate.
Youthnet: www.thesite.org.uk
General site for young people covering education, leisure time, housing, sex, and money, with extensive drug information
Crew 2000: www.crew2000.co.uk
Coalition of young people, clubgoers and others who've come together to produce real & relevant info about how to reduce the risks involved in using drugs.
Drug specific sites
ecstasy.org: www.ecstasy.org
Aims to gather and make accessible objective, authoritative and up to date information about the drug ecstasy (principally MDMA).
Cocaine.org: www.cocaine.org
Aims to gather and make accessible objective, authoritative and up to date information about Cocaine and Crack Cocaine.
Heroin.org: www.heroin.org
Aims to gather and make accessible objective, authoritative and up to date information about Heroin
Heroinsites: www.heroinsites.biz
Directory of Heroin related websites
MAPS: www.maps.org
Supporting psychedelic and medical marijuana research since 1986
Lycaeum: www.lycaeum.org
Psychedelics.
Hyperreal: www.hyperreal.org
Drugs and rave culture
Online reference sites
Drugtext: www.drugtext.org
Home Office, UK: www.homeoffice.gov.uk/pubs.htm
Bibliographic Drug Discrimination Database: www.dd-database.org
Bibliographic database
Drug Library: www.druglibrary.org
Online library of drug policy, USA
Research/academic
Independent Drug Monitoring Unit: www.idmu.co.uk
Independent research consultancy, conducting large scale surveys of drug users.
Society for the Study of Addiction: www.addiction-ssa.org
Based at the Institute of Psychiatry currently publishes Addiction and Addiction Biology.
The Centre for Drug Research: www.gla.ac.uk/Inter/DrugMisuse/
Based at the University of Glasgow details of projects and publications.
British Medical Journal: www.bmj.com