Sources for More Information 447This excellent source of therapeutic drug information is sponsored by a health services
and products company.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
810 Seventh Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
(202) 307-0765
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/drugs.htm
This agency of the U.S. Department of Justice provides a wide variety of current and
historical statistics about illegal usage of drugs and about many other crime-related
issues. The Internet Web site includes links to statistical information at other sites.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30333
(404) 639-3534
(800) 311-3435
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/issue.htm
Although this federal agency’s site has relatively little about drugs in general, this
Internet address is useful for data about tobacco.
ChemIDplus
http://chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus
This service of the National Library of Medicine allows persons to obtain brief descrip-
tions of drugs, including Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Numbers, molecular for-
mulas, and alternate names for substances. The CAS numbers can be particularly
valuable, not only for confirming identity of a drug but for getting more information
from other databases.
Code of Federal Regulations
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/
At this address a person can access the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), among
other items. The official federal schedules of controlled substances can be found in the
CFR under Title 21, part 1308. A drug’s schedule status can change, and the CFR can
be used to confirm a drug’s current status. Another official source is the United States
Code (see below).
Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN)
http://www.samhsa.gov/oas/dawn.htm
DAWN is an important information system supervised by the Office of Applied Studies
in a federal agency called the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis-
tration (see below). DAWN produces reports concerning statistics it gathers about
drug-related injuries and deaths. Those numbers do not necessarily reveal whether
drug-relatedincidents are drugcausedbut are useful for tracking trends in popularity
of various drugs.
Drug Enforcement Administration
Information Services Section (CPI)
2401 Jefferson Davis Highway
Alexandria, VA 22301
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/
In addition to information about law enforcement efforts, in links to “Drugs of Con-
cern” and “Drugs of Abuse” the DEA’s Web site provides official information about
individual substances. Another link leads to assorted statistics.