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  • Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program (US)
    National Institute of Justice program which tracks trends in the prevalence and types of drug use among booked arrestees in urban areas. The data play an important role in assembling the US picture of drug abuse in the arrestee population and have been a central component in studying the links between drug use and crime
  • Brief Addiction Science Information Source (BASIS)
    Created by the Division on Addictions (DOA) at the Cambridge Health Alliance, BASIS is a virtual institute to advance addiction science, and addiction-related education and clinical services.
  • Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
    Canada's national addictions agency, aiming to provide objective, evidence-based information and advice that will help reduce the health, social and economic harm associated with substance abuse and addictions.
  • Centre for Drug Research, University of Amsterdam (CEDRO)
    CEDRO's goal is the determination of various aspects of the drug problem from a socio-scientific angle
  • Daily Dose
    Daily news service on drug and alcohol misuse providing links to a range of relevant material from specialist organisations and the popular media from around the world
  • Drink and drugs.Net
    UK-based website for substance misuse specialists and those in the wider health, welfare and criminal justice fields who deal with drug and alcohol issues in their work
  • Drugs and crime facts, Bureau of Justice Statistics (US)
    Summarises US statistics about drug-related crimes, law enforcement, courts, and corrections from Bureau of Justice Statistics and other sources
  • Institute for Social Drug Research
    Based at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, University of Ghent, Belgium, the ISD is a multidisciplinary research group active in the social scientific collection and transfer of knowledge regarding different aspects of the use of drugs, drug trafficking and drug policies
  • National Association of Drug Court Professionals (US)
    The principal organisation of professionals involved in the development and implementation of treatment-oriented drug courts in the US
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (US)
    Scientific research institute on drug abuse and addiction
  • Office of National Drug Control Policy (US)
    The principal purpose of ONDCP is to establish policies, priorities, and objectives for the US drug control program
  • Schaffer Library of Drug Policy
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (US)
    SAMHSA's National Household Survey on Drug Abuse is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non-institutionalised population, aged 12 and older. The publications in the Household Survey Series include standard NHSDA Reports, special studies and analytic reports
  • Transform Drug Policy Foundation
    UK-based think tank on alternatives to the current enforcement-oriented regime of drug prohibition

International

  • Beckley Drug Policy Programme
    A partnership between the Beckley Foundation and DrugScope, this program aims to provide a rigorous, independent review of global drug policy.
  • European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
    The central source of comprehensive information on drugs and drug addiction in Europe.
  • Global Illicit Drug Trends
    United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention. This report is based on data obtained primarily from annual reports questionnaires received by UNDCP up to February 1999
  • Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD)
    Established in 1986 with the objective of eliminating the illicit traffic in and abuse of drugs in the countries of the Caribbean, Central and South America
  • I-ADAM in eight countries : approaches and challenges
    A progress report (published 2002) of the implentation of a research partnership among criminal justice organisations across the world, aiming to develop a standardised international drug surveillance system that will provide researchers the ability to compare the prevalence of drug use among arrestees in different nations, and allow researchers to assess the consequences of drug abuse within and across national boundaries.
  • International Narcotics Control Board annual report
    This report includes an annual survey of national and international markets, measures to control the flow of illicit drugs and adherence to international treaties
  • United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
    The UNODC was established to enable the UN to focus and enhance its capacity to address the interrelated issues of drug control, crime prevention and international terrorism in all its forms
  • Virtual Clearinghouse on Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
    This clearinghouse is supported by a partnership that draws on the strengths of a number of collaborating organisations in Europe, the Americas, Australasia, and Africa

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