Educational Resources
Additional resources aimed at increasing awareness and understanding about Addiction and Recovery:
The National Institute on Drug Abuse offers a fact sheet on specific drugs, including how they affect the brain and other parts of the body, treatment options, and how widespread the use is of these drugs.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse offers a survey as well as answers to frequently asked questions about addiction and treatment.
Be Smart. Be Well. is an award-winning website that delivers life-story videos, expert interviews and in-depth articles on a variety of important health topics including both addiction and mental health. Their wide range of multi-media resources offer informative tools for both patients and families suffering from the disease that is addiction.
U.S. National Library of Medicine & National Institutes of Health: Drug Abuse and Addiction
The U.S. National Library of Medicine & National Institutes of Health offers several pages specifically designated to drug abuse and addiction. Here you can find research based statistics and recovery information.
The mission of Hazelden Publishing is to provide products and services to help people recognize, understand, and overcome addiction, and closely related problems.
Additional resources aimed at increasing awareness and understanding about Mental Health:
The National Institute on Mental Illness is a highly valued resource with easy-to-understand information about mental illnesses, mental health care, medications, diagnosis, treatment and recovery.
Here, NAMI provides a very useful comprehensive list of specific medications used in mental illness treatment.
This resource from NAMI provides a list of specific serious mental illnesses with information about the illness and treatment options.
Be Smart. Be Well. is an award-winning website that delivers life-story videos, expert interviews and in-depth articles on a variety of important health topics including both addiction and mental health. Their wide range of multi-media resources offer informative tools for both patients and families facing mental illness.
Slightly different from the other links provided, this resource offers opinions, cutting-edge research reportage, and personal stories about different individuals’ experiences with mental health.