National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)

Raising More Voices than Mugs

campus-community collaboration

www.apolnet.org

Community Tool Box
The Tool Box provides over 6,000 pages of practical information to support
your work in promoting community health and development.

Organizing Tips and Leadership Development Resources from the U. of Nebraska-Omaha
Quick tips and brief information guides, available for you on the web on the following leadership development topics

Public Agenda: Public Policy and public Opinion on Alcohol Abuse
Public Agenda is an objective explorer of public opinion and a scrupulously fair minded producer of citizen education materials.

CSPI - Booze News
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is a consumer advocacy organization whose twin missions are to conduct innovative research and advocacy programs in health and nutrition, and to provide consumers with current, useful information about their health and well-being.

Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention
A key source on college alcohol issues. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Higher Education Center provides support to all institutions of higher education in their efforts to ad dress alcohol and other drug problems.

College Initiatives to Reinvent Campus Life (CIRCLe Network)
A fab site from a great new organization by and for students, advocating social programming and social structures that foster true community and de-emphasize the role of alcohol on college campuses. Student database, live chat, and message board!

Facts On Tap: Alcohol and Student Life
Tremendous! Great factoids on college alcohol use and abuse, and an excellent section on the "Non-Alcoholic Hangover" and the pernicious "secondhand effects" of heavy drinking.

American Medical Association Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
The National Office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiatives To Reduce High-Risk Drinking Among Youth. Home of the Matter of Degree Program which involves ten partner colleges and universities in a a seven-year national effort to reduce high-risk drinking among college students, and create solutions through environmental change.

Security on Campus, Inc.
Loads of binge drinking prevention resources, links, news, and public policy information.

Rethinking Rites of Passage: Substance Abuse on America's Campuses
A key 1994 study fromthe National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA). Full report down-loadable via Adobe Acrobat.

The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information: College Site
Tons of college alcohol related links and fact sheets galore. A service of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (a division of the U.S. Deparment of Health and Human Services).

Go Ask Alice!
Real world alcohol Q & A from Columbia University's Health Education Program—a division of the Columbia University Health Service.

Center for Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws
From the Pacific Institute on Research and Evaluation's (PIRE) UnderAge Drinking Enforcement Training Center, a wealth of resources on underage drinking as a public health issue, and strategies for reducing alcohol problems.

Trauma Foundation Project on Alcohol-Related Injury and Violence (ARIV)
Great collection of alcohol fact sheets exposing alcohol's connection with violence, sexual assault, suicide, unintentional injury, and exploring issues from the social costs of drinking, to alcohol advertising, to alcohol taxes, and more.

Join Together: College Binge Drinking Resources
Join Together, founded in 1991, is a non-profit supporting community-based efforts to reduce, prevent, and treat substance abuse across the nation.

Quick Alcohol Facts (NIAAA)
Factoids and more factoids. National data on a range alcohol topics from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Alcohol Alert: Fact Sheet on College Alcohol Use (NIAAA)
A detailed 1995 piece on college binge drinking from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, with a message from DHHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala.

National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD)
Fact sheet on binge drinking, with links to cited research sources, and more...

About.com's site on college alcohol issues
An interesting assortment of links on a range of college alcohol issues.

Institute for Public Strategies/Institute for Health Advocacy
The Institute for Public Strategies (IPS), provides leadership and strategies which support changes in public and private policy & community standards and norms. The Institute for Health Advocacy (IHA), is the branch of IPS dedicated to public health and safety. Check out this site's material on the "Border Project" (a project to reduce public health and safety problems related to US youth and binge drinking in Tijuana, Mexico).