ONLINE RESOURCES
Integrated Substance Abuse Program (ISAP/UCLA) – The UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP) has steadily established its presence as a major entity in the drug abuse research community, both domestically and internationally. The group continues to advance the knowledge base on drug problems and to improve the delivery of drug abuse treatment services through an array of projects.
Montana Meth Project – Montana Meth Project is a large-scale prevention program aimed at significantly reducing first-time meth use through public service messaging, public policy, and community outreach.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) – NIDA's mission is to lead the Nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction, treatment and policy as it relates to drug abuse and addiction.
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) — United States Department of Health and Human Services – The Agency has sharply focused its mission on building resilience and facilitating recovery for people with or at risk for mental or substance use disorders.
Meth Resources.gov — The ANTI-METH Campaign – “Balancing prevention and treatment” Through various advertising and communication vehicles, the purpose of the Anti-Meth Campaign is to prevent meth use, dispel the myth that meth treatment does not work, and get people who need help from meth abuse into treatment. Includes resources for Enforcement, Public Safety, Prevention, Education, Treatment, Health, Youth, Businesses, Retailers, Policy Makers.
Meth Education Toolkit – This website provides information on methamphetamine and how to recognize and prevent its usage.
Western District University of Wisconsin Methamphetamine Toolkit
Resources– Excellent links site with a wide spectrum
of information broken down into categories.
US Department of Justice Cops Office — Tools For Combating Meth – Tools for Combating Meth contains practical guidebooks that address issues such as clandestine drug labs, drug dealing in open-air markets and privately owned apartment complexes and identity theft.
The Matrix Institute on Addictions – The Matrix Model intensive outpatient treatment was developed with an awareness of the diversity of factors that contribute to drug and alcohol problems.
Friends La Brea – Friends La Brea provides free drug counseling as part of a research study for gay and bisexual men who use methamphetamine.
Hazelden – A national nonprofit organization helps people reclaim their lives from the disease of addiction.
National Association of Counties – NACo is committed to raising public awareness about and helping counties respond to the nation’s methamphetamine drug epidemic.
National Alliance For Drug Endangered Children – The National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children supports a nationwide network of professionals serving drug endangered children by providing referrals to experts, updated research on topics concerning drug endangered children, and best practice information.
United States Department of Justice – General informational site on meth, addiction, law enforcement, and treatment.
New England ATTC — The Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network – Funded by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - The primary purpose of this program is to provide addiction specialists and other mental health professionals, as well as other interested persons throughout the world with convenient, easy to access “cyber” classrooms in which they can be kept abreast with the latest advances in addiction treatment and prevention.
Genetics Learning Science Center — University of Utah – A site dedicated to helping people understand how genetics affects their daily lives.
Treatment4Addiction — An online community and informational resource for individuals with a common goal of living a healthy addiction-free lifestyle.
VIDEO & MULTIMEDIA
World's Most Dangerous Drug — National Geographic Channel
The Addiction Project — HBO
Methamphetamine: New Knowledge, New Treatments — The Clinical Innovators Series
Methamphetamine: A Prevention Trilogy — California Department of Justice
Meth — Produced & Directed by Todd Ahlberg
Meth America — Directed by Christopher Halligan
Meth: Dark Cloud Over the Big Sky — PBS/Student Documentary Unit
American Meth — A Time & Tide Productions Project — Narrated by Val Kilmer
Methamphetamine 101: Etiology and Physiology of an Epidemic — Digital Training Module — Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy
Methamphetamine 102: Introduction to Evidence-Based Treatments — Digital Training Module — Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy
BOOKS & ARTICLES
Assessment of Substance Use Disorders – Donovan, D. and Marlatt, G.A. (Eds), See: “Assessment of Methamphetamine Users” - Rawson, R.A., Sodano,R. and Hillhouse, M. (2004)
Beautiful Boy – Sheff, David, (2008)
Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry – Sadock, B.J. and Sadock, V.A. (Eds), See: “Amphetamines” - Jaffe, J.A., Ling, W. and Rawson, R.A. (2005).
Methamphetamine Addiction – Roll, J.M., Rawson, R.A., Ling, W., Shoptaw, S. (Eds.) (2006)
Methamphetamine: New Knowledge, New Treatments – Rawson, R.A. (2006)
Meth: The Basics – McCann, M.J., Obert, J.L., Marinelli-Casey, P, Rawson, R.A. (2005)
Neuropsychology and Substance Use: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions, See: “Substance Abuse Epidemiology in the US: A review of indicator data.” – Maxwell, J., Finnerty, B., and Rawson, R.A. (2007)
Relapse Prevention Approaches for the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders Marlatt – G.A and Donovan, D. (Eds), See: “Relapse Prevention Approaches for Stimulant Dependent Individuals” – Carroll, K.M. and Rawson, R.A. (2005)
Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment – Galanter, M and Kleber, See: “Methamphetamine Abuse and Dependence: Current Treatments” – Rawson, R.A. and Ling, W.L. (2007)
Treatment of Stimulant Abuse CSAT: TIP #33 (Chair, CSAT Consensus panel) – Rawson, R.A. (1998)