Alcohol Information

Below is a partial list of the many online resources about alcohol. We hope that your thirst for this knowledge will help you make responsible choices.

Please note that these are links to other websites. CADEC is not responsible for the accuracy or opinions contained in these sites. When you visit the following websites you will be leaving CADEC and a new window will open.

Alcoholics Anonymous
The worldwide fellowship of sober alcoholic, whose recover is based on twelve steps.

Alcoholics Anonymous of Butte County
This is the Butte and Glenn County site of the worldwide fellowship of sober alcoholic, whose recover is based on twelve steps.

Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database
This site includes links to a number of databases, journals, and websites focused on alcohol research and related topics.

Alcohol Policy Information Systems
The Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS) is an electronic resource that provides authoritative, detailed, and comparable information on alcohol-related policies in the United States, at both State and Federal levels.

Alcohol Studies Database
The database contains over 70,000 citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and audio-visual materials.

ACA Online Resources
Adult Children of Alcoholics, Alcohol, AL-ANON, And Alcoholism. Basically, everything you ever wanted to know about alcohol.

Al-Anon/Alateen
A world-wide directory of Ala-Anon information services and offices.

AllRefer Health Encyclopedia
A comprehensive health web-site with medical encyclopedia, list of symptoms, and more!

American Medical Association
The website offers lots of information on alcohol as well as features "A Matter of Degree: The National Effort to Reduce High-Risk Drinking Among College Students."

American Society of Addictive Medicine
The nation's medical specialty society dedicated to be educating physicians and improving the treatment of individuals suffering from alcoholism and other addictions.

America's Partners to Prevent Underage Drinking
America’s Partners to Prevent Underage Drinking (AP) is a national coalition of organizations and businesses committed to the goal of protecting America’s youth from the devastating harm and consequences associated with underage drinking.

Bacchus-Gamma Peer Education Network
An international student organization with over 800 affliates at institutions of higher education. Focuses on the development of positive lifestyles and decision making skills through education.

Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies
Information from Brown University.

Center for Alcohol Marketing and Youth at Georgetown University
The center monitors the marketing practices of the alcohol industry to focus attention and action on industry practices that jeopardize the health and safety of America's youth.

Center for Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws
The Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center was established by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (within the U.S. Department of Justice) to support its Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Program.

Core Institute
Website is of program at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. The Core Institute is the leading research, assessment and development organization serving alcohol and drug prevention programs across the nation.

Driver Performance Institutes
Everything you wanted to know about drunking driving, drinking and drugs.

European Gateway on Alcohol, Drugs, and Addictions
Elisad is both a human network and an institutional network, with around 50 members in the different European countries. Elisad organizes meetings, services and activities. Elisad's main goal is to enable those working in the field of AOD information to exchange ideas /experience.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Database
The Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Center for Excellence is a project of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Harvard School of Public Health, College Alcohol Study
Data and articles from the College Alcohol Study from 1993 to the present. Evaluation information of A Matter of Degree.

Healthopedia
Healthopedia.com is a medical and health consumer information resource containing comprehensive and unbiased information in patient-friendly language from trusted sources on over 1,500 health topics, 70 focused heatlh centers, and more than 11,000 drugs and medications.

Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention
Comprehensive higher education links to drug and alcohol resources. Source for enviornmental prevention strategies in the college setting, evaluation, engaging college presidents in alcohol issues, conducting enviornmental assesment, etc.

How Alcohol Works!
Even though you have seen the physical and behavioral changes, you might wonder exactly how alcohol works on the body to produce those effects. What is alcohol? How does the body process it? How does the chemistry of alcohol work on the chemistry of the brain? In this article, we will examine all of the ways in which alcohol affects the human body.

Join Together
Take action against substance abuse and gun violence.

Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
A collection of articles on alcohol-related subjects.

National Academy of Sciences
Highlights the report "Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility."

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National data base on alcohol.

National Center on Addication and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University is a national organization, which brings together under one roof all the professional disciplines needed to study and combat abuse of all substances - alcohol, nicotine, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, performance enhancing drugs - in all sectors of society.

National Commission Against Drunk Driving
A non-profit organization of private and public sector leaders dedicated to minimizing the human and economic losses from drinking and driving.

National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
An organizational overview and a look back at our efforts to reduce stigma and to educate Americans that alcoholism and other drug addictions are preventable and treatable.

Outside The Classroom, Inc.
Outside The Classroom is a Boston-based educational company that delivers online health solutions to colleges and universities throughout the country.

Radford University Alcohol Education Page
In this page we hope to educate you, the college student, about alcohol, the facts surrounding alcohol and its consumption, and how to deal with someone who has drunk too much alcohol.

Straigh Talk on Alcohol and Other Drugs
Various chapters on why we use alcohol and other drugs to what you can do if there is a problem. This is a Website designed for college students.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Which works to improve the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death and disability and from substance abuse.

U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention
This is an international, non-profit organization with more than 335 projects dedicated to enhancing learning, promoting health, and fostering a deeper understanding of the world.

University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, Monitoring the Future (MTF), National Results on Adolescent Drug Use
This report, tracking behavior and perceptions of 8th, 10th and 12th graders, appears annually, in December. Also has data on college students.

University of Minnesota, Alcohol Epidemiology Program
Alochol policies in the U.S., research articles on adolescent drinking, community organizing efforts, community prevention trials, alcohol-involved traffic crashes, training of alcohol outlet managers and servers, natural experiments with changes in state and local alcohol policies, and public opininn surveys.