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Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law is the leading national legal advocate for people with mental disabilities. Through precedent-setting litigation and in the public policy arena, the Bazelon Center works to advance and preserve the rights of people with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities.

Buprenorphine Physician Locator

The Buprenorphine Physician Locator is an on-line resource designed to assist States, medical and addiction treatment communities, potential patients, and/or their families in finding information on locating physicians who can prescribe buprenorphine (Suboxone® and Subutex®) for treatment of opioid addiction.

Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (Ch.A.D.D.)

Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) is a national non-profit organization founded in 1987 in response to the frustration and sense of isolation experienced by parents and their children with AD/HD.

Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS)

The DASIS site includes news and recent DASIS developments of interest to State Substance Abuse Agencies, as well as documentation of DASIS activities and reports. Copies of user manuals, data reports, and other materials are available to view or download for each of the major DASIS Programs.

Drug and Alcohol Treatment Locator

This Link is an on-line resource for locating drug and alcohol abuse treatment programs. This link website is provided by The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Providers are identified by city/state or zip code. The site will provide treatment locations within a 100-mile radius. You can access this information in several ways by selecting a State of U.S. Territory from the map or drop-down menu.

Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health

Welcome to the Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health, the nation's advocacy organization for families of children and youth with mental health needs.

Healthfinder

Healthfinder® is an award-winning Federal Web site for consumers, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services together with other Federal agencies. Since 1997, healthfinder® has been recognized as a key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet. healthfinder® links to carefully selected information and Web sites from over 1,700 health-related organizations.

Mental Health Association in North Dakota

The mission of the Mental Health Association in North Dakota -- an affiliate of the National Mental Health Association -- is to improve the range, quantity and quality of care and treatment for persons with mental illnesses, to promote mental health for all persons, to remove the stigma associated with mental illnesses, and contribute to research into the prevention, treatment and cure of mental illnesses.

Mental Health Services Locator

The Mental Health Services Locator provides basic referral information about mental health services and resources across the country.

Mental Illness: What a Difference a Friend Makes (SAMHSA sponsored site)

This site is for people living with mental illness and their friends. It contains tools to help in the recovery process, and people can also learn about the different kinds of mental illnesses, read real-life stories about support and recovery, and interact with a video to see how friends can make all the difference.

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)

NAMI is a nonprofit, grassroots, self-help, support and advocacy organization of consumers, families, and friends of people with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic and other severe anxiety disorders, autism and pervasive developmental disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and other severe and persistent mental illnesses that affect the brain.

National Association of Mental Health Planning and Advisory Councils

An association of individuals involved with state mental health planning across the Nation.

National Institute of Mental Health

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is one of 27 components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Federal government's principal biomedical and behavioral research agency. NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) provides leadership in the national effort to reduce alcohol-related problems.

National Institute on Drug Abuse

Recent scientific advances have revolutionized our understanding of drug abuse and addiction. The majority of these advances, which have dramatic implications for how to best prevent and treat addiction, have been supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). NIDA supports over 85 percent of the world's research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction. NIDA supported science addresses the most fundamental and essential questions about drug abuse, ranging from the molecule to managed care, and from DNA to community outreach research.

Office of National Drug Control Policy

The principal purpose of ONDCP is to establish policies, priorities, and objectives for the Nation's drug control program. The goals of the program are to reduce illicit drug use, manufacturing, and trafficking, drug-related crime and violence, and drug-related health consequences.

PATH Program

The Projects for the Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) grant program provides services to individuals with serious mental illnesses, as well as individuals with co-occurring substance use disorders, who are homeless or at risk of becoming home-less.

Prevention Online

SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) is the Nation's one-stop resource for information about substance abuse prevention and addiction treatment.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the Federal agency charged with improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.

Working Partners for an Alcohol-and Drug-Free Workplace

This U.S. Department of Labor Web site helps employers develop drug-free workplace programs that protect employee safety and health. that offers free resources that employers can use to address workplace substance abuse and contribute to overall prevention efforts in their communities.

 

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