Healthy Santa Cruz County - drugs

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
• Local Help & Information: Paying for Medical Expenses
  The library's Community Information Database can help you find organizations in Santa Cruz County which offer further information or help in paying for prescriptions or medical services. Use this link to search the CID.
  Browse related subjects: drugs, health insurance, local information, medications, prescriptions

Library Resources

• 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
• Find Books: Prescription Medications
  Santa Cruz Public Libraries have many informative and up-to-date books about prescription medications. Click here to search the library catalog.
  Browse related subjects: books, books / videos, drugs, medications, prescriptions

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
• Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs
  Special features: More than 15 easy-to-read reports available analyzing the effectiveness, safety and cost of commonly used prescription drugs; review of Medicare Drug Benefit; tips for safe use of medications; Spanish and text enlargement available. From: Consumers Union.
  Browse related subjects: drugs, medications, prescriptions, recommended website
• Drug Digest
  Special features: Reviews of more than 1500 medications, supplements and herbs; interaction checker; side-effect comparison; interactive tools; e-bulletin updates; RxSpeak, an innovative online forum for voicing opinions on prescription-related topics. From: Express Scripts.
  Browse related subjects: drugs, medications, prescriptions, recommended website
• Drug InfoNet
  Special features: Drug information section offers official package inserts and patient package inserts - search by brand name, generic name, manufacturer or therapeutic class. From: DrugInfoNet.
  Browse related subjects: drugs, medications, prescriptions, recommended website
• Drugs, Supplements and Herbs - MedlinePlus
  Special features: Search by generic or brand name; link to FDA drug warnings, recalls and product safety information. From: NLM / NIH. See also: Over-the-Counter Medications - MedlinePlus
  Browse related subjects: drugs, herbs, medications, MedlinePlus, prescriptions, recommended website, supplements
• Drugs.com
  Special features: Fast, easy searching of over 24,000 approved medications by medication name or medical condition; pill identifier; medical encyclopedia; drug interaction checker. From: PDR, Cerner-Multum and Thomson Micromedex, three independent medical-information suppliers.
  Browse related subjects: drugs, medications, pills, prescriptions, recommended website
• National Alliance on Mental Illness
  The National Alliance on Mental Illness Web site houses resources on a host of mental illnesses, such as depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and borderline personality disorder. The site also provides information on treatments, support groups, and recovery from mental illness.
  Browse related subjects: AD/HD, addiction, bipolar , bulimia, depression, drugs, eating disorders, healthy lifestyle, medications, mental conditions / illnesses, mental health, recommended website, research, suicide
• 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
• Needy Meds
  Special features: Information for people needing help with cost of medicine or other healthcare expenses; links to patient assistance programs, government programs, discount drug cards and more. From: NeedyMeds, Inc.
  Browse related subjects: drugs, medications, prescriptions, recommended website
• RxList
  Special features: Advanced Search option is searchable by keyword or drug name, and will provide interactions, pill ID, patient information sheet, etc. from single search; Top 300 drugs of previous year; discussion boards; limited coverage of herbs and supplements. From: RxList, Inc.
  Browse related subjects: drugs, medications, prescriptions, research database
• 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, depression, drugs, hotline, mental conditions / illnesses, 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.
• Rosen Teen Health and Wellness
  This database provides middle school and high school students with nonjudgmental, straightforward support. Topics include diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying, green living, financial literacy, and more.