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• - Comprehensive web-site with research and treatment reports and news. Includes a site for teachers and students with educational materials. Fact sheets on drug abuse, including the most recent economic costs report.
  
• - Drug Discrimination is widely recognised as one of the major methods for studying the behavioral and neuropharmacological effects of drugs and plays an important role in drug discovery and investigations of drug abuse. This page provides access to Dr. Ian
  
• - Explores recent scientific evidence that alcohol affects adolescents and adults differently. Also discusses recent findings regarding adolescent brain development.
  
• - For the layperson interested in the science behind addiction: and in the brain in general. Current topics include: Nicotine and the brain, Addictions path, the brains stash, and the opiate receptor.
  
• - Free online books, journals. The best collection on intervention techniques, substance abuse, recovery, relapse prevention, sobriety.
  
• - The PRG of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics in San Francisco conducts clinical trials of medications and therapeutic interventions for the treatment of addiction.
  
• - Visual guide to brain regions involved in the mediation of cannabis actions - geared to the lay person. Links to a variety of articles on cannabis/Marijuana.
  
• - This is the entire content (text and figures) of a textbook that was entitled 'Principles of Behavioral Pharmacology'. The authors are professors at Rutgers and Drew Universities in New Jersey.
  
• - Research Forum and Resources for the Neurobiology of Addiction hosted by The Wheeler Center at the University of California, San Francisco. Online discussions and learning tools that help in understanding the neuroscience behind addiction and the brain me
  
• - An online magazine series exploring the brain's response to drugs. In this issue, it investigates many facts about the stimulant drug methamphetamine.