Websites and Online Resources
The National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse site provides resources for those in need of drug abuse assistance and their families. Information includes links to fact sheets, how to find help for teens and adults, questions to ask when seeking treatment, and up-to-date research being conducted in the field. Check out the special sections for Patients and Families, Parents and Educators, and Children and Teens.
https://medlineplus.gov/drugsandyoungpeople.html
The National Institutes of Health’s Web site, “Drugs and Young People”, provides links and resources on drug abuse including symptoms, prevention, treatment, statistics and research, as well as information on specific drugs, age specific resources, news, and related topics.
Above the Influence is a program from the non-profit organization Partnership for Drug-Free Kids filled with resources for teens to stand up to negative pressures in their lives, including drugs. It offers teens drug facts, how to find help for themselves or a friend, and ways to get involved in their communities to fight these negative pressures.
https://www.toosmarttostart.samhsa.gov/Start.aspx
Too Smart To Start is a public education initiative sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Through this initiative, SAMHSA provides research-based strategies and materials to professionals and volunteers at the community level to help them conduct an underage alcohol use prevention program.
https://www.justthinktwice.gov/
Just Think Twice is a United States Government, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) website.
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/
This is the Center for Disease Control’s website on the opioid epidemic, including heroin. Comprised of current facts and statistics on the heroin epidemic, links to further reading, and information on overdose.
Since 1983, the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program has been part of schools across America with law enforcement personnel delivering lessons about peer pressure, drug and alcohol awareness, and more recently bullying and internet safety.
Al-Anon Family Groups is a website of resources and supports for family members-including children impacted by addiction.
https://www.ncadd.org/family-friends/there-is-help/family-disease
The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence has a web page dedicated to providing information for families. The site includes prevention tips for parents, intervention tips, information on talking to children, and more.
Partnership for Drug-Free Kids has resources that include guide and video supports with ideas for opening conversations with kids about drug and alcohol use, as well as answers to some frequently asked questions from kids.
https://www.drugabuse.gov/parents-educators
The National Institute for Drug Abuse parent and educator pages include publications and resources that educators can request free of charge and videos related to addiction science.
Winward Way provides an Opioid Addiction Guide that provides helpful answers to questions regarding addiction, what causes addiction, as well as identifies signs and symptoms of Opioid Abuse to both men and women.
Books
Sandpaper Sisters: Addicts Turned Community Builders: Miracles do Happen!
Michele McKnight Baker
YCL Call Number: 362.2 BAK
Coming Clean
Robert Granfield
YCL Call Number: 616.86 GRA
Think About Drugs and Society: Responding to an Epidemic
Richard A. Hawley
YCL Call Number: 362.2 Haw
Coping With Substance Abuse
Rhoda McFarland
YCL Call Number: 362.2 MCF
Understanding the Twelve Steps : an Interpretation and Guide for Recovering People
Terence T. Gorski
YCL Call Number: 362.29 GOR
Staying Sober: a Guide for Relapse Prevention.
Terence T. Gorski
YCL Call Number: 362.2 GOR
Healing and Hope: Six Women from the Betty Ford Center Share their Powerful Journeys of Addiction and Recovery
Betty Ford
YCL Call Number: 362.29 FOR
Substance and Shadow: Women and Addiction in the United States
Stephen R. Kandall
YCL Call Number: 362.29 K131
Get Your Loved One Sober
Robert J. Meyers
YCL Call Number: 362.292 MEY
Teen Drug Abuse
YCL Call Number: 362.29 TEE
I Want to Talk to My Teen About Addictions.
YCL Call Number: 362.29 HUT
Trapped: Mercy for Addictions
Nancy Alcorn
YCL Call Number: 362.29 ALC
Getting Them Sober. Vol. 1: –You can Help!
Toby Rice Drews
YCL Call Number: 362.29 DRE VOL. ONE
Soaring Above Co-Addiction: Helping your loved one get Clean, While Creating the life of your Dreams
Lisa Ann Espich
YCL Call Number: 362.29 ESP
HEROIN
YCL Call Number: 362.29 EGE
METHAMPHETAMINE
YCL Call Number: 362.29 BER
The Street Addict Role: a Theory of Heroin Addiction
Richard C. Stephens
E-BOOK
Stepping Stones to Recovery from Cocaine/Crack Addiction
E-BOOK
Doin’ Drugs: Patterns of African American Addiction
William H. James
E-BOOK
Parental Substance Misuse and Child Welfare
Brynna Kroll
E-BOOK
Guided by Grace: One Preacher’s Journey Through Active Addiction into Healing and Hope
Michelle Baynes Owens
YCL Call Number: 362.29 OWE
What Addicts Know: 10 Lessons from Recovery to Benefit Everyone
Christopher Kennedy Lawford
YCL Call Number: 362.2 LAW
Cocaine Nation
YCL Call Number: 362.29 COC
Addict in the Family: Stories of Loss, Hope, and Recovery
Beverly Conyers
YCL Call Number: 362.29 CON
Beyond Addiction
Jeffrey Foote
YCL Call Number: 616.86 FOO
Generation Rx: A Story of Dope, Death, and America’s Opiate Crisis
Erin Marie Daly
YCL Call Number: 362.29 DAL
Kick Your Addiction
Dr. Frederick Woolverton
YCL Call Number: 616.86 WOO
Medicines that Kill: The Truth about the Hidden Epidemic
James Marcum
YCL Call Number: 362.29 MAR
Addiction
YCL Call Number: 362.29 ADD
Teen Drug Abuse
YCL Call Number: 362.29 TEE
Gateway Drugs
YCL Call Number: 362.29 GAT
Living Clean
YCL Call Number: 362.29 LIV
PCP : High Risk on the Streets
Jennifer Croft
YCL Call Number: 362.29 C874
The Memory Palace
Mira Bartók
YCL Call Number: 362.2 BAR
Intervention, How to Help Someone who Doesn’t Want Help: A Step-by-Step Guide for Families and Friends of Chemically Dependent Persons
Vernon E. Johnson
YCL Call Number: 362.2 JOH
Addiction: Why can’t they just Stop?
John Hoffman
E-BOOK
The Anatomy of Addiction
Akikur Mohammad
YCL Call Number: 362.29 MOH
Pain Killer: A “Wonder” Drug’s trail of Addiction and Death
Barry Meier
YCL Call Number: 362.29 MEI
Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again: A Doctor’s Story
Drew Pinsky
YCL Call Number: 362.29 PIN
A Parent’s Guide to Teen Addiction: Professional Advice on Signs, Symptoms, What to Say, and How to Help
Laurence Michael Westreich
YCL Call Number: 616.86 WES
Inside Rehab: The Surprising Truth about Addiction Treatment: And How to get Help that Works
Anne M. Fletcher
YCL Call Number: 362.29 FLE
It’s Not about You, Except when it is: A Field Manual for Parents of Addicted Children
Barbara Victoria
YCL Call Number: 362.29 VIC
Painkillers, Heroin, and the Road to Sanity
Joani Gammill
YCL Call Number: 616.86 GAM
Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy
David Sheff
YCL Call Number: 362.29 SHE
Dreamland the story of America’s new Opiate Epidemic
Sam Quinones
E-BOOK
Cocaine
Heather Lehr Wagner
YCL Call Number: 362.29 WAG
Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through his Son’s Addiction
David Sheff
YCL Call Number: 362.2 SHE
We all Fall Down: Living with Addiction
Nic Sheff
E-BOOK
Addiction and Overdose
Connie Goldsmith
YCL Call Number: 362.29 GOL
Hooked: When Addiction Hits Home
Chloe Shantz-Hilkes
YCL Call Number: 362.2 SHA
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
Nick Reding
YCL Call Number: 362.29 RED
Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors were duped; Patients got Hooked, and why it’s so hard to Stop
Anna Lembke
Go ask Alice
Anonymous
Here to Help: a Guide for Overcoming Opiate and Heroin Addiction
Jason M. Scholl
Heroin is Killing our Children
Missy Owen
Mayhem
Sigrid Rausing
Painkillers, Heroin, and the Road to Sanity: Real Solutions for Long-Term Recovery and Opiate Addiction
Joani Gammill
Rewired: a Bold New Approach to Addiction and Recovery
Erica Spiegelman
Juvenile Fiction and Nonfiction
Substance Abuse
Regina Avraham
YCL Call Number: Y362.29 Av81
Drug Abuse
Dennis Fradin
YCL Call Number: J362.2 FRA
Junior Drug Awareness
Jim Gallagher
YCL Call Number: J362.29 G135
Heroin
Todd Howard
YCL Call Number: Y362.29 HOW
Cocaine and Crack
James Barter
YCL Call Number: Y362.29 BAR
Hallucinogens
Ann Ricki Hurwitz
YCL Call Number: Y362.29 HUR
The Cruisers: Checkmate
Walter Dean Myers
Defeating Addiction and Alcoholism
Susan Henneberg
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Hilary Poole
Drug Dependence
L.H. Colligan
Heroin Addiction
Peggy Parks
Joseph’s Grace
Sheila P. Moses
The Seventh Wish
Kate Messner
Sunny Side Up
Jennifer L. Holm
Sunny’s Story: How to Save a Young Life
Ginger Katz
The Truth About Heroin
Phillip Wolny
Young Adult Fiction & Non-Fiction
Be The One: Six True Stories of Teens Overcoming Hardship and Hope
Byron Pitts
Breaking Faith
E. Graziani
Clean
Amy Lynn Reed
Crank
Ellen Hopkins
The Dangers of Heroin
John Allen
Heroin: Killer Drug Epidemic
Nicole Horning
Thicker than Water
Kelly Fiore
Zoo Station: the Story of Christiane F.: A Memoir
Christiane F.
Articles and Other Information
What is the Opioid Epidemic?
- About the Epidemic – Department of Health and Human Services
- The Opioid Crisis – National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Opioid Addiction – American Academy of Family Physicians
- Opioids: The Prescription Drug & Heroin Overdose Epidemic – Department of Health and Human Services
- Understanding the Opioid Epidemic – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- What is the Opioid crisis? – HarvardX – Harvard University Online Learning (video)
In the News
- Should the Opioid Crisis be Declared a National Emergency? – National Public Radio (Aug 2, 2017)
- Short Answers to Hard Questions about the Opioid Epidemic – New York Times (Aug 3, 2017)
- States Declared an Emergency over the Opioid Crisis – PBS NewsHour (Aug 10, 2017)
- Trump: ‘The opioid crisis is an emergency’ – CNN (Aug 11, 2017)
Information about Substances
- Overview of Opioids – National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Medicines included in the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) – U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- List of Narcotic Analgesics (including brand names) – Drugs.com
- Heroin – National Library of Medicine
- Drug Facts: Synthetic Opioids (Fentanyl) – Drug Policy Alliance
- OxyContin: Prescription Drug Abuse – Connecticut Clearinghouse
- Opioid (Narcotic) Pain Medications – WebMD
Intervention and Treatment
- Opiate Addiction and Treatment – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Wreckage of Opioid Addiction – Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
- Medications to Treat Opioid Addiction – National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Opioid Overdose Reversal with Naloxone (Narcan, Evzio) – National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Finding Solutions to the Prescription Opioid and Heroin Crisis: A Road Map for States – National Governors Association
- The Opioid Crisis: Our Solution – Time
Government Resources
- Opioid Overdose – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Combating the Opioid Crisis: Battles in the States – House Oversight and Investigations Committee
Video and text of witness testimony during hearing held on Wednesday July 12, 2017, including Marylands Lt. Governor Boyd K. Rutherford. - Interim Report – White House Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis