450 Sources for More Information
Partnership for Responsible Drug Information
14 West 68th Street
New York, NY 10023
(212) 362-1964
http://www.prdi.org/
Partnership for Responsible Drug Information (PRDI) is an organization that strives to
present drug information from experts who disagree with some government drug con-
trol policies. Many links to still more sources can be found at: http://www.prdi.org/
drugindx.html
PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
PubMed is another service from the National Library of Medicine. PubMed includes
Medline, one of medicine’s first electronic databases, which can direct a person to
science journal articles about many drugs. Typically PubMed allows users to see sum-
maries of those articles.
RxList
http://www.rxlist.com/
This index of information about therapeutic drugs is sponsored by a company selling
various health-related products.
Schaffer Library of Drug Policy
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/
This information resource includes electronic versions of classic reports about drugs,
along with large quantities of recent information. The home page of DRCNet Online
Library of Drug Policy at http:/www.druglibrary.org/ contains links to still more
sources. “DRC” is the Drug Reform Coordination Network, which is an activist group
opposing government drug policies.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
Office of Communications (OC)
(301) 443-8956
http://www.drugabusestatistics.samhsa.gov/
SAMHSA is a federal government agency. Many statistics and other types of drug
information are available at this site. An important part of this site is the Office of
Applied Studies, which offers many reports. The Drug Abuse Warning Network (see
above) is part of the Office of Applied Studies.
Tobacco BBS (Electronic Bulletin Board System)
P.O. Box 359
Village Station
New York, NY 10014-0359
(212) 982-4645
http://www.tobacco.org/
This massive collection of information specializes in tobacco and is sponsored by an
organization concerned about health problems caused by smoking.
Toxnet
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
This database is another service of the National Library of Medicine, providing infor-
mation from science journals. From this page a person can access Toxline, ChemIDPlus,
PubMed, and other information services.