| Scotland
- Drug Related |
| •Aberdeen
Grid for Learning-Drug Education |
| Aberdeen City Strategic
Services aimed at young people and parents. |
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| •Addiction
Education Scotland |
| Addiction Education Scotland
is a network of providers of quality teaching and training in the
addictions in Scotland. It exists to enable collaboration between
providers and purchasers or commissioners to ensure that teaching
and training in Scotland is delivered to a consistently high level
of quality and relevance. |
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•Centre
for Addiction Research and Education Scotland (CARES)
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CARES is a Scottish based multi-disciplinary academic
centre, integrating clinical, basic and social scientists, with
the aim of delivering the highest quality healthcare and improving
health outcomes to individuals and the Scottish community through
the development of research and education in the field of drug,
alcohol and tobacco dependence.
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•Crew
2000
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Edinburgh based 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.
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| •Headgear
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| Official site of Edinburgh
City Council - resources for schools. |
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| •Know
the Score |
| The web site contains
information for everyone from young people and parents, who simply
want the facts about drugs, to those who might be looking for more
detailed advice about the potential harmful effects of drugs misuse.
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| •Lloyds
TSB Foundation for Scotland |
| An independent charitable
Trust, funding registered charities focusing on the needs of people
in Scottish communities. |
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•Scottish
Drugs Forum (SDF)
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The Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF) is
the national non-government drugs policy and information agency
working in partnership with others to co-ordinate effective responses
to drug use in Scotland.
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•Sorted
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Part of an integrated package of
support for ex-substance users in Edinburgh. The Sorted course
will equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to progress
onto lasting experiences of employment, training or education.
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| U.K.
- Drug Related |
| •Addiction
Search |
| Addiction Search Engine. |
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| •drinkanddrugs.net
- from the Federation of Drug & Alcohol Professionals ( FDAP ) |
| 'web-portal for substance
misuse practitioners - covering the latest news, training information,
research & guidance, jobs vacancies and more'. |
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•Drug
Abuse Resistance Education (UK) Ltd
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A programme aimed at preventing drug misuse among
young people.
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| •Drug
Concern |
| Guernsey Drug Concern
offers advice and information for anyone using legal or illegal
drugs. |
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| •Drug
Alcohol Northern Ireland |
| Guernsey Drugs advice
and information in Northern Ireland . |
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| •Drugs.gov.uk |
| drugs.gov.uk is a cross-government
website to support the National Drug Strategy and the work of Drug
Action Teams. |
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•D-2K
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Interactive website aimed at 14-16
year olds. Developed by Health Promotion England.
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| •Drugsprevention.net
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| This site has been created
by the Health Promotion Agency for Northern Ireland as part of the
Northern Ireland Drugs Campaign.
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•DrugScope
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"DrugScope has been created through the merger
of the UK's foremost drug information and policy organisations:
the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence (ISDD) and the
Standing Conference on Drug Abuse (SCODA)."
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| •Federation
of Drug and Alcohol Professionals (FDAP) |
| "The Federation
of Drug and Alcohol Professionals (FDAP) is a professional body
of practitioners working with people with substance use problems.
FDAP is open to everyone working in the field. FDAP provides advice,
training and support to practitioners, as well as promoting and
enforcing guidelines for ethical practice and providing a 'gold
standard' accreditation scheme. FDAP also provides advice to policy
makers on matters relating to workforce development and professional
practice." |
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•Health
Promotion England
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Health Promotion England develops
and delivers public education campaigns and health promotion in
key areas of health policy.
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•Cyswllt
Ceredigion Contact
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Cyswllt Ceredigion Contact is a registered
UK charity, which was set up in 1992. We are a Day Service and
provide help, advice and support for people with drug and alcohol
problems, and for their families.
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•Mentor
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The Mentor Foundation is an international, independent,
not for profit, non-governmental organisation that focuses on
the prevention of drug misuse among young people, and the promotion
of their health and well-being .
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| •National
Drugs Helpline - Phone: 0800 77 66 00 |
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•National
Drug Evidence Centre
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| The Drug Misuse Research
Unit's work to establish the National Drug Evidence Centre |
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•Regional
Drug Misuse Database Northern and Yorkshire Regional Drug Misuse
Database
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The Northern and Yorkshire Database operate on
the Drug Misuse Database (DMD) system, using software devised
and produced by the Drug Misuse Research Unit of Manchester University.
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•Research
Development and Statistics Directorate
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Department of the UK Home Office.
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•Resistance
In Drug Education
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RIDE is a series of drug awareness
and life skills programmes currently devised for children aged
from nine upwards.
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| •Re-Solv |
| Re-Solv is the Society
for the Prevention of Solvent and Volatile Substance Abuse . |
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•The
European Association for the Treatment of Addiction (UK)
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The European Association for the
Treatment of Addiction (UK) is an independent charity, which aims
to help ensure that people who are dependent on drugs or alcohol
get timely access to the treatment they need.
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| •substancemisuse.net |
| This site aims to raise
awareness and understanding of substance misuse, the problems it
creates and the ways to deal with these problems. |
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| •Transform |
| Transform is the leading
independent UK organisation campaigning for a just and effective
drug policy. |
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•Usingwomen.org.uk
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The Using Women campaign, which was
launched on November 4th, aims to give a voice to silenced women
and break this cycle.
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| Europe
- Drug Related |
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•European
Monitoring Centre on Drug and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
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"The Lisbon-based European Monitoring
Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) was set up in 1993
in response to the escalating drug problem in Europe and to demands
for an accurate picture of the phenomenon throughout the European
Union."
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| •European
Working Group on Drugs Orientated Research (EWODOR) |
| EWODOR (the European
Working Group on Drugs Oriented Research) was founded in 1983 to
provide a forum within which researchers in the field of drug/alcohol
treatment, prevention and policy could share research experience
and expertise; compare procedures, methods and results; and subject
their work to peer examination. |
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•Federation
of European Professionals Associations Working in the Field of
Drug abuse
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Erit includes associations of professionals who
work with drug addicts in all European countries. With more than
9.000 professionals
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•ITACA
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ITACA is an association of professionals
engaged in the field of drug addiction to give a contribution
on the issue of drug consumption and to improve and strengthen
exchange and confrontation for reducing drug abuse.
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•The
Pompidou Group
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The Council of Europe's involvement
in the fight against drug misuse and drug trafficking is carried
out through the work of a multidisciplinary co-operation group
known as the Pompidou Group. The Group was set up in 1971.
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•Trimbos
Institute
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"The Trimbos Institute, the Netherlands
Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, aims to promote mental
health in the broadest sense of the term."
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| World
- Drug Related |
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•Drug
Library
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"The world's largest library of drug
policy"
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•DrugText
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The purpose of DrugText is to promote
the development and dissemination of knowledge, research, education,
scholarship and international jurisprudence in the area of drug
policy and human rights.
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•International
Narcotics Control Board
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The International Narcotics Control
Board (INCB or Board) is the independent and quasi-judicial control
organ for the implementation of the United Nations drug conventions.
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| •International
Society for the Study of Drugs Policy |
| The ISSDP aims to be
a forum for high quality drug policy analysis, develop the scientific
base for policy decisions and improve the interface between researchers
and policy makers. |
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•National
Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (Columbia)
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Columbia University. Site to "inform
Americans of the economic and social costs of substance abuse
and its impact on their lives."
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•National
Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
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A service of The Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration.
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•National
Institute on Drug Abuse
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"NIDA's mission is to lead the Nation
in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction."
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•www.streetdrugs.org
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Information about drugs and drug
misuse. Lots of educational information.
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