Healthy Santa Cruz County - Alcohol & Drug Abuse

Local Links

• Local Help & Information: Addiction
  The library's Community Information Database can help you find organizations in Santa Cruz County which offer programs, help, support or further information about addiction. Use this link to search the CID.
  Browse related subjects: addiction, alcohol, drugs, local information
• Local Help & Information: Alcohol / Drugs
  The library's Community Information Database can help you find organizations in Santa Cruz County which offer programs, help, support or further information about alcohol / drug problems. Use this link to search the CID.
  Browse related subjects: addiction, alcohol, drugs, local information

Library Resources

• Find Books: Alcohol Abuse
  Santa Cruz Public Libraries have many informative and up-to-date books about alcoholism and alcohol addiction / abuse. Use this link to search the library catalog.
  Browse related subjects: addiction, alcohol, books, books / videos
• Find Books: Drug Abuse
  Santa Cruz Public Libraries have many informative and up-to-date books on this topic. Use this link to search the library catalog.
  Browse related subjects: addiction, books, books / videos, drugs

Recommended Websites

• Al-Anon/Alateen
  Help for families and friends of alcoholics. Special features: Meeting-finder for US, Canada and Puerto Rico; 20 self-test questionnaires; also available in Spanish and French. From: Al-Anon/Alateen World Service Office.
  Browse related subjects: addiction, alcohol, drugs, recommended website, support, teens
• Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
  Special features: Free, downloadable form of AA's "Big Book Online Fourth Edition," searchable meeting-finder for US and Canada. From: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services.
  Browse related subjects: addiction, alcohol, healthy lifestyle, recommended website
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
  Special Features: Up-to-date statistics, graphics, newsletters and wide variety of reproducible educational materials. From: NIH.
  Browse related subjects: addiction, alcohol, healthy lifestyle, recommended website
• National Institute on Drug Abuse
  Special Features: Broad coverage, all available in Spanish. Special sections for Students & Young Adults as well as Parents & Teachers. From: NIH.
  Browse related subjects: addiction, drugs, healthy lifestyle, recommended website
• Substance Abuse - MedlinePlus
  Special features: Understandable, up-to-date information about more than a dozen different types of substance abuse problems, each with research, statistics and organizations to contact. From: NLM / NIH.
  Browse related subjects: addiction, alcohol, drugs, MedlinePlus, recommended website
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
  Focusing on both substance abuse and mental health, SAMHSA provides information on prevention, treatment, and recovery, along with helpline numbers and national reports and statistics.
  Browse related subjects: addiction, alcohol, diagnosis, drugs, hotline, mental conditions / illnesses, mental health, recommended website, research

Databases

• Health and Wellness Resource Center
  Provides health-related information from more than 700 health/medical journals and hundreds of pamphlets (many with full text), 2,200 magazines, and various reference sources.
• MEDLINE® PubMed
  PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes citations and abstracts from MEDLINE, the world's largest database of clinical medical literature. The database indexes more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. Citations date back to the 1950s. Some citations link out to relevant information outside of Medline, or to the full text of articles. Tutorials are available and highly recommended for inexperienced users.