Drug Addiction and Substance Abuse Booklist: Websites

Honors those lost while enforcing the controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States

The National Addiction Memorial honors the loved ones we’ve lost. View the entries or create a memorial for a loved one.

Read and share stories of loss. Helps viewers understand the dangers of inhalants and product abuse.

If you have kids of your own, work with kids, or know someone who does, it’s time to learn about inhalant abuse. Inhalant abuse is the deliberate inhalation of common household products with the intent to “get high.” While inhalant abuse is a lesser known form of substance abuse, it is incredibly dangerous.

The mission of the NIAAA is to generate and disseminate fundamental knowledge about the effects of alcohol on health and well-being, and apply that knowledge to improve diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of alcohol-related problems, including alcohol use disorder, across the lifespan.

NIDA is the lead federal agency supporting scientific research on drug use and its consequences.

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.

Shatterproof is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the devastation addiction causes families.

Smokefree.gov is designed to help you or someone you care about quit smoking.

SAMHSA's mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities.

The mission of the DEA is to enforce the controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States and bring to the criminal and civil justice system of the United States, or any other competent jurisdiction, those organizations and principal members of organizations, involved in the growing, manufacture, or distribution of controlled substances appearing in or destined for illicit traffic in the United States

This World Health Organization unit works globally to improve health and well-being of populations by articulating, promoting, supporting and monitoring evidence-informed policies, strategies and interventions to reduce the burden associated with alcohol, drugs and addictive behaviours.

Selected statistics on a variety of health topics for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program acquires, preserves and disseminates data relevant to drug addiction and HIV research. Most datasets in NAHDAP are primary data collected from surveys and interviews or obtained from administrative databases.

NIDA uses multiple sources to monitor the prevalence and trends regarding drug use in the United States. The resources on this webpage cover a variety of drug-related issues, including information on drug use, emergency room data, prevention and treatment programs, and other research.

The U.S. government does not track death rates for every drug. However, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collects information on deaths involving many of the more commonly used drugs available through 2019 at a searchable database, called CDC Wonder. The NCHS also has 12 month-ending provisional data available by state and drug category. See Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts.

Reports and data from the The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Tennessee statistics on opioids from the National Institute on Drug Abuse

National Institutes of Health, Monitoring the Future Study: Trends in Prevalence of Various Drugs for 8th Graders, 10th Graders, and 12th Graders; 2017 - 2020