Alcohol - Resources for
Reducing Alcohol Abuse
Substance Abuse
Treatment
Click to locate a publicly funded facility.
(http://www.samhsa.gov/treatment/treatment_public_i.aspx)
Alcohol - Reducing Underage
Drinking
The American Medical
Association
To locate information on underage drinking type into the search box
"Underage Drinking".
(http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/3337.html)
Center for Enforcing Underage Drinking
Laws
(http://www.udetc.org)
Florida
MADD Youth Programs
(http://www.madd.org/chapter/0,1073,1200_2988,00.html)
Healthy
Generations
September 2001 issue of publication of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota focused on the
subject of underage drinking.
(http://www.epi.umn.edu/)
Join
Together
Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
(http://www.jointogether.com)
MADD's Youth In
Action (YIA)
(http://www.maddmn.org/)
Minnesota Prevention Resource
Center
Information on alcohol prevention and resources. Includes recipes for non-alcoholic drinks.
(http://www.emprc.org)
Model Ordinances to Reduce Underage
Drinking
The Alcohol Epidemiology Program (AEP), School of Public Health, University of Minnesota in
Minneapolis.
(http://www.epi.umn.edu/alcohol/sample/ordinanc.shtm)
Model Ordinances to Reduce Underage Drinking
The Alcohol Epidemiology Program (AEP), School of Public Health,
University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. (http://www.epi.umn.edu/alcohol/sample/ordinanc.shtm)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
(NIAAA)
The governors' spouses' effort on "Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free".
(http://www.niaaa.nih.gov)
The National Highway Traffic and Safety
Administration (NHTSA)
Community How to Guide on underage drinking prevention
(http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/alcohol/Community%20Guides%20HTML/Guides_index.html)
The Pacific Institute for Research and
Evaluation
Best practice reports on underage drinking.
(http://www.pire.org)
The Prevention
Researcher
September 2002 issue was dedicated to underage drinking and had information on programs, policies and
resources to address the problem. Backorder copies of the issue can be ordered at the web site.
(http://www.tpronline.org)
Reducing Underage Drinking: A
Collective Responsibility
Written by a Committee on Developing a Strategy to Reduce and Prevent Underage Drinking in Children, Youth,
and Families. A National Research Council.
(http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10729.html?onpi_topnews_091003)
SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention (CSAP)
(http://www.samhsa.gov/centers/csap/csap.html)
Stop Underage Drinking - Portal of Federal Resources
(http://www.stopalcoholabuse.gov/townhall/flashmap/locations.aspx)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA)
"Reach Out Now", a school - based set of lessons and activities on talking about underage drinking with
fifth graders.
(http://www.samhsa.gov)
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Alcohol - Want to Cut
Back or Quit
Alcohol Screening- This website helps you answer questions such as "Is
drinking alcohol harming my health now, or will it be harmful to me later in
life? Should I stop drinking? Am I a binge drinker?"
(http://alcoholscreening.org/)
Alcoholics
Anonymous
An international fellowship of men and women who have had a drinking problem; it is nonprofessional,
self-supporting, nondenominational, multiracial, apolitical, self-help group open to anyone who wants to do
something about their drinking problem. Site includes Spanish and French translations.
(http://www.aa.org/)
American Council on Alcoholism
Helpline
(800) 527-5344 Toll Free
(http://www.aca-usa.org)
How to Cut Down on Your
Drinking
Ideas from the National Institutes on Health on how to cut down or Quit.
(http://www.health.org/govpubs/ph372/)
Guided Self-Change- This Nova Southeastern University website
includes tools for determining if alcohol is a problem for you.
(http://www.nova.edu/gsc/)
The Nova Southeastern University website also includes information
on how
"People Change Their Use of Alcohol, Drugs, and Cigarettes on Their
Own."
(http://www.nova.edu/gsc/change_on_their_own.html)
Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration
Treatment locator.
(http://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/facilitylocatordoc.htm)
State Epidemiology Workgroup- Site includes links to the Florida
State Epidemiology Workgroup Annual Reports and county substance
abuse consumption and consequences data.
(http://www.cdrc.med.miami.edu/x58.xml)
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