SALIS Web Resources Links

For resources specific to the COVID-19 Pandemic, please see the hot topics page: COVID-19 and Substance Use.

United States of America

Addiction & Mental Health Resources for the Black Community – SAFE Project – Ensures that members of the Black community have access to recovery, prevention, and mental health resources, with a curated a list of recovery and mental health resources specifically for the Black community.

Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS) – The Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS) provides detailed information on a wide variety of Alcohol-Related Policies in the United States at both State and Federal levels, as well as policy information regarding the Recreational Use of Cannabis. The information and resources available on this site are geared toward alcohol and cannabis policy researchers and others interested in alcohol and cannabis policy issues.

AlcoholScreening.org helps individuals assess their own alcohol drinking patterns to determine if it is likely to be harming their health or increasing their risk for future harm. Through education and referral, the site urges those whose drinking is harmful or hazardous to take positive action, and informs all adults who consume alcohol about guidelines and caveats for lower-risk drinking.

Alcohol Studies Database (ASD) – This site provides access to over 80,000 citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and audio-visual materials.

Addiction Treatment Resource Guide Directory (ATRG)

ATTC Product Database – The ATTC Network is an international, multidisciplinary resource for professionals in the addictions treatment and recovery services field.. The ATTC Network is comprised of 10 U.S.-based Centers, two National Focus Area Centers, and a Network Coordinating Office.

Brown University Library – The Chester H. Kirk Collection on Alcoholism and Alcoholics Anonymous

Cochrane Library – A collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.

Drug Policy Alliance – Advances those policies and attitudes that best reduce the harms of both drug use and drug prohibition, and promotes the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and bodies.

Finding Global Statistics There are a number of places where you can find statistics or information on the prevalence and patterns of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use on the Internet. The following list includes selected statistical resources covering Europe, North America, Australasia and worldwide.

Fragile Families & Child Wellbeing Study is following a cohort of nearly 5,000 children born in large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000 (roughly three-quarters of whom were born to unmarried parents). The study refers to unmarried parents and their children as “fragile families” to underscore that they are families and that they are at greater risk of breaking up and living in poverty than more traditional families.

Gene Database: NeuroSNP Project (Washington University in St. Louis)

The Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Drug Misuse Prevention and Recovery — provides colleges and universities the tools and resources to launch alcohol and drug misuse prevention and recovery programs on their campuses.

Industry Documents Library: Tobacco, Drug, Chemical – The Industry Documents Library is a digital archive of documents created by industries which influence public health, hosted by the University of California, San Francisco Library. Originally established in 2002 to house the millions of documents publicly disclosed in litigation against the tobacco industry in the 1990s, the Library has expanded to include documents from the drug, chemical, food, and fossil fuel industries to preserve open access to this information and to support research on the commercial determinants of public health.

Indiana Prevention Resource Center Databases (IPRC) – Assists Indiana based alcohol, tobacco and other drug (ATOD) prevention practitioners to improve the quality of their services. Their primary target audience is the community of prevention professionals and volunteers, and government officials who are providing or monitoring delivery of ATOD and problem gambling prevention and treatment services to Indiana residents.

International Alcohol Information Database (IAID)

Legacy Tobacco Documents Library – provides access to tobacco industry internal corporate documents produced during litigation between US States and the seven major tobacco industry organizations and other sources. These internal documents give a view into the workings of one of the largest and most influential industries in the United States which The Library makes freely accessible.

Media Awareness Project, or Drugnews (MAP)

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) – a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.

National Library of Medicine (NLM) – The goal of the NLM is to advance the progress of medicine and improve public health by providing U.S. health professionals with equal access to biomedical information and improving individuals’ access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health.

National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome – here you can search a state-by-state resource directory, learn how alcohol interferes with healthy prenatal development, locate high quality treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD) through the NIAAA Alcohol Treatment Navigator.

Partnership to End Addiction – Provides personalized support and resources for families impacted by addiction, while mobilizing policymakers, researchers and health care professionals to more effectively address addiction systemically on a national scale.

PTSD National Center for PTSD – The world’s leading research and educational center of excellence on PTSD and traumatic stress.

SafetyLit – contains summaries of doctoral theses, “scholarly” reports and journal articles about injury occurrence and risk factors, the epidemiology of injury; or the financial, personal, or societal costs or consequences of any injury or risk factor, including addiction.

Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator (SATFL) – a confidential and anonymous source of information for persons seeking treatment facilities in the United States or U.S. Territories for substance use/addiction and/or mental health problems.

Substance Use Screening & Assessment Instruments – This resource is intended to help clinicians and researchers find instruments used for screening and assessment of substance use and substance use disorders.

Stanford Research into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising – Studies the promotional activities of the tobacco industry. It has published numerous academic articles on various aspects of tobacco marketing, both historical and contemporary. Their web repository of tobacco advertising is intended to support scholarly research as well as to inform regulators and legislators about the promotional activities of the tobacco industry.

Tobacco Industry Documents (TID) – An archive of 14 million documents created by tobacco companies about their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, scientific research and political activities.

Trinkets and Trash: Artifacts of the Tobacco Epidemic – Trinkets and Trash is a surveillance system and archive that monitors, collects, and documents current and historic tobacco products and tobacco industry marketing materials and tactics.

Data Archives, Surveys, Related Database (U.S.)

The Pediatric Health Information System – a comparative pediatric database, includes clinical and resource utilization data for inpatient, ambulatory surgery, emergency department and observation unit patient encounters for more than 49 children’s hospitals.

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) – U.S. health-related telephone surveys that collect state data about U.S. residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services. It completes more than 400,000 adult interviews each year, making it the largest continuously conducted health survey system in the world.

CDC Wonder – manages nearly 20 collections of public-use data for U.S. births, deaths, cancer diagnoses, tuberculosis cases, vaccinations, environmental exposures, and population estimates, among many other topics. These data collections are available as online databases, which provide public access to ad-hoc queries, summary statistics, maps, charts, and data extracts. Most of the data are updated annually; some collections are updated monthly or weekly.

Census Bureau (U.S.) – is the federal government’s largest statistical agency; providing current facts and figures about America’s people, places, and economy.

Community Epidemiology Work Group (CEWG) – Up to 2014 the CEWG, was a network of local drug abuse experts who reported semiannually on trends and emerging issues from major metropolitan areas and some states around the United States. The CEWG is no longer active but CEWG reports are available on this site. The final CEWG reports are from June, 2014. In August, 2014, the National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS) was established and took over many of the CEWG’s functions.

Clinical Trials Network (CTN) Data Share (U.S.) – A digital repository of resources created by and about NIDA’s National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) – Provides CTN members and the public with a single point of access to research findings and other materials that are approved for dissemination throughout the CTN and to the larger community of providers, researchers and policy-makers.

Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS) Some of the content of this website was transferred on the U.S. Substance Abuse & Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA), and all of the DASIS reports are now housed on the SAMHSA Data Page. This site is provided as a resource for State Substance Abuse Agencies (SSA) and others interested in the DASIS. It includes news and recent DASIS developments of interest to State Substance Abuse Agencies, as well as documentation of DASIS activities and reports. Copies of user manuals, data reports, and other materials are available to view or download for each of the major DASIS Programs.

US: Directory of HHS Services Data (DIR)

US: ERIC Database

US: Food and Drug Adminsitration: Tobacco Science & Research. The FDA supports science and research to help us better understand tobacco use and associated risks so that we can reduce the public health burden of tobacco in the United States.

US: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

US: Medical Database (Medline) – known as PubMed, comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

US: Monitoring the Future (MTF) – an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of Americans from adolescence through adulthood. Each year, a total of approximately 50,000 8th, 10th and 12th grade students are surveyed (12th graders since 1975, and 8th and 10th graders since 1991).

NAHDAP – National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program – facilitates research on drug addiction and HIV infection by acquiring, enhancing, preserving, and sharing data produced by research grants, particularly those funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. NAHDAP supports secondary data analysis through technical assistance and specialized training for data depositors and data users in the drug addiction and HIV research and policy communities

NCJRS Abstracts Database (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) – offers justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) – from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – contains links to just about every conceivable US government health related survey; it provides statistical information that guides actions and policies to improve the health of the American people. It is the Nation’s principal health statistics agency.

National Conference of State Legislatures – Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Treatment Database – You can search legislation by state, topic, keyword, year, status and primary sponsor. Searchable topics include: Counseling and Behavioral Health; Medicaid, Medication Assisted Treatment; Parity and Coverage; Recovery Support Services; Residential and Hospital-Based Treatment and Telehealth.

National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) – provides up-to-date information on tobacco, alcohol, and drug use, mental health and other health-related issues in the United States.

National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) – an annual survey that collects data from all public and private facilities providing substance use treatment in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories and jurisdictions

National Treatment Improvement Evaluation Study (NTIES) – was a congressionally-mandated five-year study (1992 – 1997) of the impact of drug and alcohol treatment on thousands of clients in hundreds of treatment units. The study is now closed.

The National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors, Inc. (NASADAD) – is a private, not-for-profit educational, scientific, and informational organization whose basic purpose is to foster and support the development of effective alcohol and other drug abuse prevention and treatment programs throughout every State.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA) – provides a public web portal that allows people to review and download public-use and restricted-use data files and documentation.

Substance Use Screening & Assessment Instruments – this resource is intended to help clinicians and researchers find instruments used for screening and assessment of substance use and substance use disorders. Some instruments are in the public domain and can be freely downloaded from the web; others can only be obtained from the copyright holder.

Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) – when undergoing substance abuse treatment, individual people can be admitted and discharged from treatment multiple times. TEDS comprises demographic and drug history information about these individuals. TEDS-A records the admissions, and TEDS-D records the discharges. The two data sets are separate but linkable. TEDS-A data collection began in 1992, and TEDS-D began in 2000.

National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) – Datasets are available for public use, so that researchers and public health managers can explore the data in detail. In addition, states can compare their estimates of prevalence of youth tobacco use with national data. The NYTS was designed to provide national data on long-term, intermediate, and short-term indicators key to the design, implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive tobacco prevention and control programs.

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) – monitors six categories of health-related behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults, including— Behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence

State Level Resources

Massachusetts – Public Health Data Warehouse (PHD) – PHD is a unique surveillance and research tool that provides access to timely, linked, multi-year data to enable analyses of health priorities and trends, such as the current opioid epidemic and persistent inequities in maternal and child health.
New York – Office of Addiction Services and Support (OASAS) –
New York – The Rockefeller Institute of Government has created a tracker showing which municipalities in NY have opted out of adult-use marijuana dispensaries and/or on-site consumption lounges.

Professional Organizations, Societies, and Groups

Addiction Policy Forum – created by families impacted by this disease, working in states and communities across the country to end stigma, help patients and families in crisis and translate the science around addiction. Their vision is to eliminate addiction as a major health problem.
American Academy of Pediatrics – Key resources on Substance Use and Prevention from the renowned American Academy of Pediatrics.
Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco – Its mission is to stimulate the generation and dissemination of new knowledge concerning nicotine in all its manifestations.

Academic Research Institutions, Organizations, and Libraries

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Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health – works to improve women’s health through research, dialogue, teaching, and information dissemination.

The Fragile Families & Child Wellbeing Study – is following a cohort of nearly 5,000 children born in large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000 (roughly three-quarters of whom were born to unmarried parents). They refer to unmarried parents and their children as “fragile families” to underscore that they are families and that they are at greater risk of breaking up and living in poverty than more traditional families.

Program for Recovery and Community Health, School of Medicine, at Yale located at Erector Square in New Haven, CT, does collaborative research, evaluation, education, training, policy development, and consultation. We work to transform behavioral health programs, agencies, and systems to be culturally responsive and re-oriented to facilitating the recovery and social inclusion of the individuals, families, and communities they serve.

University of Massachusetts Medical School Transitions ACR :Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research Their mission is to promote the full participation in socially valued roles of transition-age youth and young adults (ages 14-30) with serious mental health conditions. They use the tools of research and knowledge translation in partnership with this at risk population to achieve this mission.

Division on Substance Abuse at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the New York State Psychiatric Institute: The Division conducts cutting edge translational research on the neural and psychosocial mechanisms that maintain substance use disorders and that underlie behavior change in treatments. By doing so, it aims to advance clinical practice through the development of novel treatments.

Other Countries

Canada: Health Canada – is responsible for helping Canadians maintain and improve their health. It ensures that high-quality health services are accessible, and works to reduce health risks.

United Kingdom

United Kingdom: Alcohol Concern – looks to a future in which people drink as a conscious choice, not a default; where the issues which lead to alcohol problems – like poverty, mental health issues, homelessness – are addressed; where those of us who drink too much, and our loved ones, have access to high-quality support whenever we need it, without shame or stigma.

United Kingdom: Drug and Alcohol Findings – bridges the divide between UK-relevant research on the effectiveness of responses to drug and alcohol problems and the practitioners who provide those interventions. The project aims to encapsulate the studies’ findings, set them in context and explore implications for practice.

United Kingdom: The Adfam online resource library is a free library of over 50 key documents for people working in family support. The documents can be explored by clicking on the following subject terms within Adfam’s web site:

United Kingdom: University Colege London (UCL) -Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit -The CPU researches the short and long-term effects of drugs on human cognition, behaviour, emotion and brain function. It uses classic behavioural and neuropsychological tools, clinical trials, epidemiological data and functional/structural neuroimaging to conduct research.

The area below is for databases that have been archived and are no longer being actively maintained:

Pulse Check: National Trends in Drug Abuse

The Services Research Outcome Study (SROS) is a follow-up to the 1990 Drug Services Research Survey (DSRS). The SROS provided for a five year post-discharge follow-up of a broadly representative sample of approximately 3,000 drug clients treated during 1989 to 1990. The study ascertained their behavior up to five years after the 1989-1990 treatment episodes, and will analyze treatment results in light of the type and cost of treatment services the clients received.