• U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
• National Institute on Drug Abuse
• National Institute on Alcohol and Alcoholism
• Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Prevention Global Network
• Office of National Drug Control Policy
• Alcohol and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State
• Legal Action Center, New York City – a legal advocacy organization which helps fight discrimination against people with histories of addiction, HIV or criminal records
• Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addictions Studies
• Center for Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University, New Jersey
• Drug use and abuse trends for adolescents compiled by University of Michigan
• American Society of Addictive Medicine
• The New Science of Addiction-Genetics and the Brain

Hudson Valley Resources

• Official website for Westchester County
• Official website for Dutchess County
• Official website for Rockland County

Self-Help

• Alcoholics Anonymous Intergroup site
• Monthly International Journal of Alcoholics Anonymous
• The Big Book Web Site
• Resources on recovery books, music and more
• Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Site
• Narcotics Anonymous
• Cocaine Anonymous
• Marijuana Anonymous
• Overeaters Anonymous
• Nicotine Anonymous
• Women for Sobriety – a women’s recovery program
• Families Anonymous

Nicotine Treatment

• Nicotine Anonymous – a 12-step program based on the recovery program of Alcoholics Anonymous
• www.smokefree.gov – provides free, accurate, evidence-based information and professional assistance to help support the immediate and long-term needs of people trying to quit smoking

Youth Resources

• Variety of addiction resources
• Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America
• National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
• National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse
• Resource covering all aspects of alcoholism
• National Inhalant Prevention Coalition
• Resources on addiction and recovery
• Talking to Kids about Drugs and Alcohol

Recommended reading

• High Bottom Drunk
  By Charles N. Roper
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• Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
  By Nic Sheff
• Beautiful Boy
  By David Sheff
• I Am Your Disease: The Many Faces of Addiction
  By Sheryl Letzgus McGinnis and Heiko Ganzer
• Losing Jonathan
  By Robert Waxler, Linda Waxler
• Addict In The Family: Stories of Loss, Hope, and Recovery
  By Beverly Conyers
• Broken
  By William Cope Moyers
• Addiction: Why Can’t They Just Stop?
  By Susan Cheever (Afterword), John Hoffman (Editor), Susan Froemke (Editor), Sheila Nevins (Introduction)
• High Society: How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What to Do About It
  By Joseph A. Califano Jr.
• First Year Sobriety: When All That Changes Is Everything
  By Guy Kettelhack
• Drinking: A Love Story
  By Caroline Knapp

Recommended viewing

• National Geographic: World’s Most Dangerous Drug (2006)
• 28 Days
• Rush
• When a Man Loves a Woman
• Traffic
• Maria Full of Grace
• August: Osage County
• The Days of Wine and Roses
• The Lost Weekend