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The Blog of ALAN TRACHTENBERG, MD, MPH, Adj. Assoc. Professor of Community Medicine, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services; TOPICS course in "Substance Abuse, Prevention, Intervention & Public Health." Also To Create: General Preventive Medicine & Public Health, Health Policy, Alternative & Complementary Health Practices (ACHP/CAM), Substance Abuse, Chronic Pain, Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC), Epidemiology & Research Methods.

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antiquated drug ads

http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/medicineshow.html
antiquated drug ads and more amusing drug ads:

there are so many amusing ones, but here are some faves:

http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/medshow/5lsd.html

http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/medshow/jackass.html
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Alan Trachtenberg, MD, MPH
North Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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Main Links: Alan Trachtenberg, MD, MPH

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  • Check out our To Create website at: http://www.2create.yourMD.com
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  • George Washington University SPHHS Topics Course - Substance Abuse: Prevention, Intervention & Public Health
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  • IHS Research Program: Human Research Participant Protection Links, Research Resources, etc. (http://www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/Research/)
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  • Alan's Comprehensive Link Log (http://2create-links.blogspot.com/), by topic
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Main Links: Duchy Trachtenberg, MSW; President, To Create

  • Duchy Trachtenberg, Official site: Montgomery County Council, At Large (http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/csltmpl.asp?url=/content/council/mem/Trachtenberg/index.asp)
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  • Duchy Trachtenberg Campaign Site (http://www.voteduchy.org/)
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Newest Links, Misc.

  • Healt Disparities Chartbook
  • My cousin Stanly Glogover's autobiographical website, including our family's experience at Auschwitz (http://www.survivinghitler.com/)
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  • Pill Popping: Debunking the power of the placebo effect.
  • Useful Resource on deinstitutionalization and community care

Blog Archive

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      • Brain Gain:The underground world of “neuroenhancin...
      • Psychedelics and schizophrenia (Review)
      • 'No Turning Back': Teens Abuse HIV DrugsTeens in S...
      • Lancet: The USA shifts away from the "war on drugs"
      • UN Office on Drugs and Crime has announced that dr...
      • DoJ Interim Final Rule The Ryan Haight Online Phar...
      • Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention: Evidence a...
      • Older Adults & Substance Use: New Data Highlight C...
      • NIDA to unveil its Physicians’ Outreach Initiative...
      • Researchers Respond To Criticism Of Giving Hard Dr...
      • "Expert" Advice from Saturday Night Live, on "Bad ...
      • Scientific Proof That Clubbing Rats Have Lousy Sex...
      • Brain Boosters: How should we deal with cognitive-...
      • Reduced Hospitalizations for Acute Myocardial Infa...
      • Ozone Shots As Effective As Surgery for Back Pain
      • Mice Get Hooked on Light
      • Effects of Beverage Alcohol Price and Tax Levels o...
      • Drinking and Biting in Adult Humans
      • Trends in Adolescent Inhalant Use: 2002 to 2007
      • Santo Diame wins in District Court
      • Environmental Enrichment During Early Stages of Li...
      • Universal Screening, Assessment, and Treatment of ...
      • antiquated drug ads
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Video Resources On The Science of Addiction

  • NIDA Short Course on the Genetics and Epigenetics of Addiction on the Web (drugabuse.gov/about/organization/Genetics/geneticsepigenetics/index.html
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  • NIDA Conference on Pain, Opioids and Addiction: An Urgent Problem for Doctors and Patients DAY 1 (2007)
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  • DAY 2: NIDA Conference on Pain, Opioids and Addiction
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  • Drug addiction : neurobiology of disrupted free will [electronic resource] / NIH Grand Rounds by Nora D. Volkow. Wednesday, December 13, 2006
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  • Methadone and Beyond: Medication and its Role in Treating Addiction Mary Jane Kreek, MD; Friday, March 15, 2002
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Current Links

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Human Research Participant Protection, Institutional Review Boards (IRB) & 45CFR46: (http://2create-irb.blogspot.com/)

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AIAN Researcher Resource Links: http://2create-research.blogspot.com/

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SAMHSA's Prevention Platform, an online resource for substance abuse prevention: http://preventionplatform.samhsa.gov/

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ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - an internet-based digital library and Search Function of education research: (http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=advanced" target="_blank)

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NIAAA Graphics Gallery- NIAAA is making available resources that have been used in the Institute's publications and presentations: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/Resources/GraphicsGallery/default.htm

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Back-Up Links

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Selected Publications by the Trachtenbergs

Alternative Health Practices In Mental Health

/ (Plain Text) Kiresuk TJ, Trachtenberg AI.

Alternative Health Practices In Mental Health

/ (PDF file) Kiresuk TJ, Trachtenberg AI.

ALTERNATIVE HEALTH PRACTICES IN ADDICTION TREATMNT

/ Boucher, Kiresuk, & Trachtenberg

Am J Pub Health: Alternative Health Practices

/ Crisis OR Opportunity? by Duchy Trachtenberg, MSW

Medicolegal Death Investigation System: IOM Workshop Summary-8/22/03 (http://www.iom.edu/search_results.asp?qs=Trachtenberg OR http://www.iom.edu/event.asp?id=6360)

National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) Local 286 Website (maintained as a public service by Dr. Trachtenberg at http://www.nteu286.medem.com/)

Skin Lesions of Injection Drug Users

/ Cagle et al, Implemented as Govt. Pub by Dr. T

Methadone-Associated Mortality: Report of a National Assessment and Background Briefing Paper by A. Trachtenberg & S. Leavitt (http://www.dpt.samhsa.gov./reports/index.htm)

2Create Blog by Dr. Alan Trachtenberg (http://2createyourmd.blogspot.com/)

Role of CAM in Public Health Practice & Training

/ BURKE, GINZBURG, COLLIE, TRACHTENBERG & MUHAMMAD

Alternative Therapies and Public Health: Crisis or Opportunity? by Duchy Trachtenberg-AJPH 2002 October; 92(10):1566-67 (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1447279)

Opioid Agonist Treatment (Methadone/LAAM/Bup)

42CFR8 (OTP or "Methadone" Regulations - http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/05dec20031700/edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2003/octqtr/42cfr8.12.htm)

FOR CREDIT: AAAP 8 Hour Buprenorphine Course for Qualification under the Drug Addiction Treatment Act (DATA) of 2000

New in Annals of Int Med from Krantz et al: Torsade de Pointes [a dangerous ventricular (heart) arhythmia] Associated with Very-High-Dose Methadone. Note: This is probably a very rare, dose-related complication

Consent to Release of Information Under 42CFR2

/ Buprenorphine Patient

Facilities Providing Methadone/LAAM Treatment

/ SAMHSA Office of Applied Studies (12/06/2002)

42CFR2 Release Consent for Suboxone Rx

/ FDA Approved Information for MD's (Product Label)

Methadone Overdoses, Deaths on Rise in U.S.

/ NY Times 2/2/2003

2/9/2003 NY Times on Methadone

/ NY Times

AJE article on NM opioid OD Deaths

/ Nolte et al.

Methadone, QTp & Torsades de Pointes

/ Krantz et al

ARCOS: the DEA's Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System

LAAM: Gone but not Forgotten

/ Roxane Laboratories

Methadone Mortality Final Report (local copy)

/ SAMHSA Consensus Group (Trachtenberg et al)

Methadone Mortality Final Report - SAMHSA 2004 (http://dpt.samhsa.gov/reports/index.htm)

Excellent & FREE Web-based CME for Primary Care Providers on Addiction Treatment (http://www.addictioncme.com)

Confusion between methylphenidate and methadone

/ FDA

Hepatitis C infection and injection drug use:

/ Thomas F. Kresina, Leonard B Seeff, Henry Francis

New, useful Methadone label (http://www.fda.gov/cder/foi/label/2006/006134s028lbl.pdf)

Methadone Associated Deaths (MAD)

General Addiction Medicine

Drug & Alcohol Problem Assessment Screening System (Danya International)

Other Drug & Alcohol Screening Instruments

Table of Commonly Abused Drugs

/ NIDA

New Ibogaine Program in Mexico

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Ontario, CA) Resources

Website of Elizabeth F. Howell, MD, President-Elect , ASAM

A CONVERSATION WITH NORA VOLKOW (NIDA Director): NY Tmes 8/19/ 2003 Science Section

UN Report on Terminology and Definitions of Drugs & Abuse: http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/report_1998-10-01_1.html

Controlled Substance Schedules & DEA info (http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/index.html)

AAFP/NIDA Monograph on Diagnosis & Treatment of Drug Abuse in Family Practice (http://www.nida.nih.gov/Diagnosis-Treatment/diagnosis.html) - by Trachtenberg & Fleming

(LOCAL COPY)

World Health Organization > (WHO) sites > Substance abuse home (http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/en/)

WHO > Substance abuse home > Publications (http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/psychoactives/en/)

NIDA Meeting Summary: Psychoactive Botanical Products Workshop: (http://www.drugabuse.gov/whatsnew/meetings/psychoactivemtgsumm.html)

Research on Anti-Drug Advertisements (http://www.utexas.edu/features/archive/2004/anti_drug_ads.html)

Legal Issues for Outpatient Drug Treatment (TIP 8; Ch 7 - http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/govpubs/bkd139/8i.aspx)

Skin Lesions of Drug Injection

/ CSAT (local Copy)

Nicotine Dependence: Treatment Principles and Alternatives

/ APA

Prescription Drug Addiction ( from the Primary care Network at: http://www.primarycarenet.org/issues/04-July2004%20PI.pdf)

MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE

/ Stein, MD. Psych Clin Nor Amer 1999. 22; 351-70.

SAMHSA/CSAP Medical Review Officer Manual (http://dwp.samhsa.gov/DrugTesting/Level_1_Pages/HHS%20MRO%20Manual%20(Effective%20November%201,%202004).aspx)

Special Issue on Syringe Access Internationally

/ Substance Use & Misuse, 2006, Vol. 41, Issue 6-7,

Excellent Free CME on Addictions and on Mental Health (http://www1.addictioncme.com/)

TIP 45. Detoxification and Substance Abuse Treatment w/Comments on Acupuncture (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat5.chapter.85279)

Other GWU SPHHS Drug Abuse Course Resources

Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade Online Dictionary

Kathleen Sciacca's DUAL DIAGNOSIS WEBSITE: Mental Illness, Drug Addiction and Alcoholism, MIDAA(R), MICA

Joint letter on syringe distribution

/ Washington State Health Dept& Pharmacy Board et al

Virtual Library on Drug Abuse: A collection of links to more than 1000 papers (full-text)

Joint Statement on Syringe Disposal

/ AMA, ASTHO, APhA, et al.

Addiction Screening

/ AHRQ/US Preventive Services Taskforce

Heroin in the 21st Century

/ Caron Foundation

Opioid Analgesic Regulation

/ PharmD CE

Florida Drug Deaths: Final Report 2002

/ State of Florida

World Health Organization (WHO) > Health topics > Substance abuse (http://www.who.int/health_topics/substance_abuse/en/)

Neurocience of Addiction

/ WHO 2004

Maintenance therapy of opioid Addiction 2004

/ WHO/UNODC/UNAIDS

Pictorial on Skin Lesions of Drug Injection (http://kap.samhsa.gov/products/brochures/pdfs/SkinLesionchart.pdf)

'Web Research Guide' to help students, faculty members, authors and research scientists find the information they need on the Web (http://www.webresearch.sciencedirect.com/)

MICROGRAM JOURNAL from the DEA: (http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/forensicsci/microgram/journals_index.html)

Addiction Severity Index (ASI) (http://www.tresearch.org/resources/instruments.htm)

Recovery Month Webcast Series from CSAT/NCADI (http://www.recoverymonth.gov/2005/multimedia/webcastmenu.aspx)

Federal Drug Data Sources (http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/sources.html)

Prevention Program Evaluation Cycle (CSAP)

CSAP Early Intervention Video (http://preventionpathways.samhsa.gov/res_videos.htm)

Medical Review Officer Manual (Urine Testing)

Congressional Hearing on Harm Reduction, 2/16/2005 (http://reform.house.gov/CJDPHR/Hearings/EventSingle.aspx?EventID=22570)

Comprehensive Compilation of American Drug Laws (by Mark Eddy) (http://reform.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Domestic%20Drug%20Law%20Compilation.pdf)

Drug Prevention Programs and the Fiscal Year 2006 Drug Control Budget: Is the Federal Government Neglecting Illegal Drug Use Prevention? Congressional Hearing Apr 26, 2005

Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility (IOM-2004)(http://www.nap.edu/books/0309089352/html/)

WISQARSTM (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System from) is an interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data. (http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/default.htm)

NIDA Research Report on Inhalant abuse (http://www.drugabuse.gov/ResearchReports/Inhalants/Inhalants.html)

TIP 32: Treatment of Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders (from CSAT) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat5.section.56219)

TIP 31: Screening and Assessing Adolescents for Substance Use Disorders (from CSAT) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat5.section.55052)

the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (http://www.acudetox.com/faq.htm)

What is the evidence of the Effectiveness for Acupuncture in Drug Abuse? (http://www.acupuncture.org.uk/content/Library/pdf/addiction_bp7.pdf)

Alanon/Alateen (http://www.al-anon.org/)

GW Writing Center (http://www.gwu.edu/~gwriter/)

UW/ADAI Bibliographies on Substance Abuse (http://lib.adai.washington.edu/biblist.htm)

IOM: NEW TREATMENTS FOR ADDICTION-Behavioral, Ethical, Legal, and Social Questions- 2004 (http://newton.nap.edu/catalog/10876.html)

IOM: Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance Use-2006 (http://newton.nap.edu/catalog/11470.html)

SAMHSA Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator (http://www.findtreatment.samhsa.gov/)

The relative risks and etiologic fractions of different causes of death and disease attributable to alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use in Canada (http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/162/12/1669)

Overdose Prevention/Harm Reduction

/ Drug Policy Alliance

Examining Drug Use Surveys and Statistics, Sources & Problems (Erowid: http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/statistics/statistics_article1.shtml)

New bill introduced to reduce deaths from overdose

/ Durbin

AddictionCME: Free Medical Tutorials on Addictions (but have to pay if CME credit is Desired) (http://www1.addictioncme.com/TopicReq?id=637)

Medscape Addiction Resource Center (http://www.medscape.com/resource/addiction)

Table of Psychoactive Substances Classes & Effects

/ WHO

12-Step Recovery Program for Dual-Diagnosed Patients (http://www.doubletroubleinrecovery.org/professionals.htm)

Medical Consequences of Alcohol (http://alcoholstudies.rutgers.edu/onlinefacts/medconseq.html)

WHO Terminology & classification of Drug Abuse (http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/terminology/en/)

Senate Hearing on Prescription Drug Abuse and Diversion: The Role of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs 9/23/04 (http://help.senate.gov/Hearings/2004_09_23/2004_09_23.html)

DEA Photo-Library of Drugs of Abuse (http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/multimedia.html)

Project Cork Powerpoint Presentations on Drug Abuse (http://www.projectcork.org/powerpoint_presentations/)

The Drug Approval and Scheduling Process

/ FDA

Selected Federal Agency Drug Information Sources

/ Vicki L. Tate

Sensitive Search of All DHHS Websites for Drug Abuse Statistics & Data-HHS Data Council Gateway (http://www.hhs-stat.net/scripts/topic.cfm?id=335)

Specific Search of All DHHS Websites for Drug Abuse Information (http://www.hhs-stat.net/scripts/searchresult.cfm?search=Drug+Abuse&image.x=13&image.y=13)

Substance Abuse & Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA) (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA/)

CDC's BRFSS: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/index.htm)

CDC's YRBSS: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/index.htm)

NIJ (National Institute of Justice: Drug Courts:The Second Decade (http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/211081.pdf)

2000 Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM/DUF): Annual Report (http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/193013.pdf)

NIMH's NCS: National Comorbidity Survey (http://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/ncs/index.php)

From NIMH: Questions and Answers about the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/healthinformation/qanda_ncs-r.cfm)

Petrakis et al: Comorbidity of alcoholism and psychiatric disorders: an overview (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CXH/is_2_26/ai_95148608)

"Web of Addictions" Resources (http://www.well.com/user/woa/sitesadi.htm)

Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) Survey of Mental Disorders (http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/08993.xml)

Resources for Co-occurring Addiction and Personality Disorders (http://www.toad.net/~arcturus/dd/ddhome.htm)

Dual Diagnosis Factoids and Resources (http://www.nyu.edu/odae/dualdiagnosis.html)

Department of Transportation (DOT) Office of Drug & Alcohol Policy & Compliance (http://www.dot.gov/ost/dapc/)

NEW July, 2006: Special Issue on Syringe Access & International Perspectives, in Substance Use & Misuse, 2006, Vol. 41, Issue 6-7, p. 771 - 776

Vaccine for Nicotine Addiction: A Phase-2 NIDA Clinical Trial (http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00318383)

The Lycaeum: Where the academic community and the drug using community compare notes-Very specific information on psychoactive drugs and plants (http://www.lycaeum.org/)

See also: Erowid (http://www.erowid.org/)

Alcohol Surveillance Reports/Epidemiologic Data from NIAAA (http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/Publications/EpidemiologicManuals/default.htm)

National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) (http://niaaa.census.gov/)

International Harm Reduction Association (http://www.ihra.net/)

Comprehensive List of Drug Abuse Resources from NIDA (http://www.drugabuse.gov/OtherResources.html)

NEW from NIDA: Principles of Drug Abuse Treatment for CRIMINAL JUSTICE POPULATIONS: A Research Based Guide (http://www.nida.nih.gov/drugpages/cj.html)

SAFETY FIRST: reality-based drug education by Marsha Rosenbaum, PhD (http://www.safety1st.org/)

SAFETY FIRST:reality-based drug education (local)

/ Marsha Rosenbaum, PhD

NIDA Evidence-Based Approaches to Drug Abuse Counseling (http://www.nida.nih.gov/ADAC/ADAC1.html)

DOT-National Center for Statistics & Analysis (http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-30/ncsa/)

Medscape on Using Motivational Interviewing to Promote Patient Behavior Change and Enhance Health (http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/5757?sssdmh=dm1.209176&src=0_tp_nl_0#)

GAO on ONDCP MEDIA CAMPAIGN: Contractor?s National Evaluation Did Not Find That the Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign Was Effective in Reducing Youth Drug Use (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06818.pdf)

Partnership for a Drug Free America (PDFA) responds to GAO (http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/DrugIssue/News/campaign_effectiveness)

The Psychonaut 2002 is a Project for searching the Internet for drug-related websites (http://www.p2002.sgul.ac.uk/contents.html)

Addiction 9/2006 - Vol. 101 Issue s1 Page 1-173 Diagnostic Issues & Comorbidity (http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/add/101/s1?cookieSet=1)

Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/curriculum/index2.htm)

The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/arrests/index.html)

Publications on Alcohol from NIAAA (http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/Publications/)

NHTSA Impaired Driving (Drugs & Alcohol) Safety Program

2007 NIDA booklet for the public on drug addiction (http://www.nida.nih.gov/scienceofaddiction/)

Local PDF: The Science of Addiction

/ NIDA 2007

What?s in a Word? Addiction Versus Dependence in DSM-V by O'Brien, Volkow & Li - Am J Psych 163:764-765, May 2006 (http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/163/5/764)

United Nations World Drug Report 2006 (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/world_drug_report.html)

UN International Narcotics Control Board & the International Conventions on Drugs (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/incb.html)

UN Technical Report on VOLATILE SUBSTANCE ABUSE (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/technical_series_1997-01-01_1.html)

Local Copy: VOLATILE SUBSTANCE ABUSE (Pages 1-15)

/ UN Technical Report Web-Based Help for Getting Grants

"ResearchAssistant" Grant Writing Tutorial for Drug Abuse Related Grants

Toolkit: National Library of Medicine Internet Connections for Health Institutions Grant Application

Developing and Writing Grant Proposals (from the CATALOG OF FEDERAL DOMESTIC ASSISTANCE (CFDA Appendix VI) - http://aspe.hhs.gov/cfda/ia6.htm

Web-Based short course on Grant Proposal Writing (From the Foundation Center): http://fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html

Grants and Federal Domestic Assistance Page from Rep Chris Van Hollen (MD-Dist. 8): http://www.house.gov/vanhollen/GFDAssistance.shtml

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant Program at NIH ( a set-aside program (2.5% of an agency's extramural budget) for domestic small business): http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/funding/sbir.htm

Certificates of Confidentiality from NIH

NIDA SBIR page: http://www.drugabuse.gov/Funding/SBIR_STTR.html

DHHS GrantsNet (http://www.hhs.gov/grantsnet/)

Resources in Urban Health from the The Institute on Urban Health Research (http://www.iuhr.neu.edu/resources.html)

Meta-MetaSearch (http://tinyurl.com/27u8j) I never met a metasearch I didn't engine

The Community Tool Box to support your work in promoting community health: Learn a skill; Plan the work; Solve a problem; Connect with others! (http://ctb.ku.edu/)

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH), a nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions (http://www.ccph.info/)

Grantmakers In Health (http://www.gih.org/)

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is a set-aside program (2.5% of an agency's extramural budget) for domestic small business concerns (http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/funding/sbir.htm)

The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC - http://www.servicelearning.org/)

THE single access point for grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies: (http://www.grants.gov/)

Attention ALL Grant Applicants: The DUNS Number Requirement (Q&A at http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/1794/1/47/)

What is the US Public Health Service? (http://www.nhpf.org/pdfs_basics/Basics_PHS.pdf)

Research Tools

Pharmacogenetic Knowledge Base: PharmGKB is an integrated resource about how variation in human genes leads to variation in our response to drugs.

Glossary of Epidemiology Terms

/ CDC

Visual/Graphical Search Engine - "www.KartOO.com"

FDA Dockets Management (DM), NEW HOME PAGE: serves as the official repository for the administrative proceedings and rule-making documents for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

"Gopher Central": Email newsletters on a zillion topics, much humor (http://www.gophercentral.com/)

CIA World Fact Book (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html)

Combined Health Info Database (CHID) a cooperative effort among several Federal agencies, with Govt. Publications on TOPICS including Alternative Medicine, MCH & other hard-to-find areas (http://chid.nih.gov/)

WIKIPEDIA - Free Online Encyclopedia

Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce helps the public health workforce find and use information effectively to improve and protect the public's health.(http://phpartners.org/)

*EPI*INFO* - tools from CDC for epidemiologists and other health professionals to rapidly develop questionnaires, forms, customize data entry and run statistics (http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/)

BIOETHICS Resources on the Web (from NIH): (http://www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics/)

Looksmart's "Find Articles" Research Tools (http://www.findarticles.com/)

Pathology Library (http://pathweb.uchc.edu/)

Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) Guidance on Research Involving Coded Private Information or Biological Specimens 8/10/2004 (http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/cdebiol.pdf)

Statistical Tools including P value Between Two Independent Percents (market research-http://www.insightexpress.com/ix/calculators/TwoIndPercents.asp)

Community-Based Participatory Research (http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/commbas.html)

Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations! and FREE statitical software (http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html)

Beckman Institute (City of Hope) Instruments for Pain Research (http://www.cityofhope.org/prc/res_inst.asp)

International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care: Pain and Palliative Care Instruments (http://www.hospicecare.com/resources/pain-research.htm)

Education Resources Information Center (www.eric.ed.gov)-searchable

PubMed Central, A free NIH archive of life sciences journals (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/)

NHLBI Clinical Research Guide (http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/crg/index.php)

UCSF Training in Clinical Research (http://www.epibiostat.ucsf.edu/courses/schedule/index.html)

Public Health Tools and Training

The Legal Basis of Public Health & other CDC web-based training from CDC's Public Health Training Network (PHTN) (http://www2.cdc.gov/phtn/legal-basis/mainmenu.asp)

CDC Public Health Image Library (http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp)

CDC/ATSDR Training and Continuing Education Online (http://www2a.cdc.gov/phtnonline/)

CDC self-study: Principles of Epidemiology

WISQARS-CDC's Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System): an interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data. (http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/)

The Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy (http://www.defendingscience.org/index.cfm)

Drug Product Tools

Drug Interactions via Cytochrome P450

FDA ORANGE BOOK: What's in that drug product and what's it equivalent to?

Latest Info on Common Adverse Drug Events: http://www.worstpills.org/

What's This Pill? (http://www.rxlist.com/)

Drugs@FDA, the first publicly available Internet resource to offer a comprehensive overview of a drug product's approval history. (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/)

FDA's National Drug Code Directory-Lists ALL Drug Products Marketed in US-Search by Proprietary Name, Active Ingredient, etc. - NDC (http://www.fda.gov/cder/ndc/database/default.htm)

Opioid Table of Equianalgesic Dosage (http://www.stronghealth.com/services/palliative/images/equianalgesictable.pdf)

Medication Errors (Sound-Alike or Look-Alike Medication Names) from the USP (http://www.usp.org/patientSafety/briefsArticlesReports/qualityReview/qr792004-04-01.html)

Medication Errors (LookAlike or Sound Alike Names)

/ USP (LOCAL COPY)

Dosing Errors & Dangerous Abreviations from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP): (http://www.ismp.org/PDF/ErrorProne.pdf)

Dosing Errors & Dangerous Abreviations from the In

/ Institute fr Safe Medication Practices-LOCAL COPY

Medscape Drug Interaction Checker (http://www.medscape.com/druginfo/druginterchecker?src=0_nl_wm_0)

Medscape Drug Information Bibliographic Search Engine (http://www.medscape.com/druginfo?src=0_nl_wm_0)

IOM Report: The Future of Drug Safety (http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3793/26341/37329.aspx)

Epocrates (drug database searchable by name or class) and other services from Wyeth

Other Clinical Tools

Centers for Education & Research on Therapeutics (CERTs): A program by the AHRQ, in consultation w/the FDA, to conduct research & education to advance the optimal use of drugs, medical devices, etc.

Clinical Tools, Inc. (CTI),a physician-owned, multimedia company with headquarters in Chapel Hill, NC. Their health-related websites: www1.clinicaltools.com/about/cti/websites/

Virtual Lecture Hall (VLH) More Web-based CME, by Specialty, at: http://www.vlh.com/shared/courses/specialty.cfm

Drug-Induced Psychiatric Symptoms: http://www.citizen.org/eletter/articles/psych2.htm

Drug Slang: http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/slang/home.html

Culture-Bound Syndromes (Culturally-specific disease entitities not yet recognized by Western medicine): http://weber.ucsd.edu/~thall/cbs_glos.html

MerckMedicus Library of Fulltext Medical References & Reserouces

NCI Pain & Palliative Care Textbook:

FULLTEXT MEDICAL LIBRARY AT: http://medicalstudent.com/

Useful Medical Links

Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines from UCSF: http://medicine.ucsf.edu/resources/guidelines/intro.html

CyberTherapy/CyberPsychology (http://www.ambientintelligence.org/)

Medscape Resource Centers, by Clinical Topic (http://www.medscape.com/pages/editorial/public/resourcecenters/index-resourcecenters?src=hdr)

Web Resources for Botanical Medicine & Research, including Translation (http://www.herbdatanz.com/research_resource.htm)

The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE), A partnership to further knowledge & cooperation on environmental contributors to disease and other health problems (http://www.cheforhealth.org)

Collaborative on Health and the Environment, CHE: (http://www.cheforhealth.org/)

Center for Environmental Therapeutics (http://www.cet.org)

AIDS Treatment News (http://www.aids.org/atn/)

Veritas Medicine, a free resource providing access to clinical trials and disease information (http://www.veritasmedicine.com/)

Emergency Preparedness & Response from CDC: Specific Agents & Diseases (http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/index.asp)

All US Medical Organization Listings (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/organizations/all_organizations.html)

Full Text Biomedical Resources (http://www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/CIR/cir-online-journals.asp)

http://www.stoppain.org

http://www.healingchronicpain.org/

American Academy on Physician and Patient (AAPP) A forum on and for Physician-Patient Communication: (http://www.physicianpatient.org/)

Medico-legal sites of interest (http://www.garanlucow.com/medical/links.htm)

State Medical Boards from HRG/Public Citizen (http://www.citizen.org/hrg/forms/medboardALL_action.cfm?View+All+States=View+All+States)

HHS Information and Hotline Directory (http://www.dhhs.gov/about/referlst.html)

Alternative&Complementary Health Practices (ACHP)

WHO Traditional Medicines Homepage (http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/traditional/en/index.html)

The CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE at the George Washington University (GWU) Medical Center: A healing environment in which patients can learn about a variety of complementary & alternative therapies

Medicine's Chasm: The wide gulf between conventional and alternative approaches widens-From American Medical News (AMA)

EAR CANDLES: Do they Work? Inquiring Ears are all abuzz!

Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Adrian S. Dobs, MD, MHS; Bimal H. Ashar, MD, in WebMD

Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation (MMRF) Center for Addiction and Alternative Medicine Research (CAAMR)

http://www.cancerlynx.com/index.html

http://www.curezone.com/diseases/support_groups.asp

Enhancing the Accountability of Alternative Medicine (Millbank 1/98)

CA Naturopathic Practice Act-PASSED 9/5/2003

/ CA Senate President Pro Tem John Burton

NEW for 2004-Health Canada's Natural Health Products Directorate's Compendium of Monographs (mostly herbal at: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpfb-dgpsa/nhpd-dpsn/monograph_compendium_list_e.html)

CDC Advance Data Report #343. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Adults: United States, 2002. May 27, 2004 (http://nccam.nih.gov/news/camsurvey.htm)

NCHS: CAM Use Among Adults: United States, 2002

/ (Local Copy)

Chiropractic Origins, Controversies, and Contributions

/ JAMA/Archives

Complementary Therapies for Depression — An Overview

/ JAMA/Archives

Hepatitis C and Complementary and Alternative Medicine: 2003 Update

/ NIH

Herbal Medicine for the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease — Clinical Considerations

/ JAMA/Archives

Michigan: Alternative Medicine - Special Report

/ MSMS

Report 13 of the Council on Scientific Affairs (A-97)Folk Medicine Among Individuals in Ethnic Subgroups in the United States: Some Clinical Implications

/ AMA

Complementary Therapy Assessment: Acupuncture for Ocular Conditions and Headaches

/ AAO

Traditional Chinese Medicine for the Treatment of Dermatologic Disorders

/ JAMA/Archives

Do CAM Therapies Help Menopausal Symptoms?

/ NIH

Alternative Therapies for Diabetes

/ NIH

Complementary/Alternative Medicine in the Treatment of Asthma

/ ACAAI

Herbal Medicinals — Selected Clinical Considerations Focusing on Known or Potential Drug-Herb Interactions

/ JAMA/Archives

Position StatementAlternative Medical Care

/ ACOEM

Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Chinese Herbal Medicine — A Randomized Controlled Trial

/ JAMA/Archives

Saw Palmetto Extracts for Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia — A Systematic Review

/ JAMA/Archives

Acupuncture for Back Pain — A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

/ JAMA/Archives

ACOG Committee Opinion: Complementary and Alternative Medicine

/ ACOG

SACRED EARTH CIRCLE: NATIVE AMERICAN HEALING, SPIRITUALITY, & CULTURE; and Qigong Research & Practice Center (http://www.kennethcohen.com)

Spirit: Resource for Healing, by Rachel Naomi Remen-IONS-Institute for Noetic Sciences (http://www.noetic.org/publications/review/issue08/main.cfm?page=r08_Remen.html#photo)

Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) "Shift" MAgazine-Special Focus: Integral Health and Healing (http://www.noetic.org/publications/shift/issue3/main.cfm)

PCA-Medicinal Plant Working Group, including E-Proceedings from the 2003 Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Industry Symposium (http://www.nps.gov/plants/medicinal/index.htm)

BioMed Central (BMC) Complementary and Alternative Medicine Ejournal: (http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmccomplementalternmed)

Public Health Acupuncture Resources

/ Karlo Berger and Beth Sommers

Best Practices in Intecultural Health-PAHO Report on the Integration of Traditional and Biomedical Health Care (http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=564741)

Best Practices in Intecultural Health-2006 Report

/ PAHO: Local Copy

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (http://www.ethnobiomed.com)

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (http://ecam.oxfordjournals.org/)

PowerPoint presentations by members of the AAP Section on Complementary, Holistic, and Integrative Medicine (http://www.aap.org/sections/chim/education.htm)

Powerpoint Presentations from the Provisional Section on Complementary, Holistic, and Integrative Medicine (http://www.aap.org/sections/chim/education.htm)

Botanical Medicine

NIDA Meeting on PSYCHOACTIVE BOTANICALS

/ NIH/NIDA

***CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT*** Naturceuticals (Natural Products), Nutraceuticals,Herbal Botanicals, and Psychoactives; Drug Discovery and Drug-Drug Interactions; A NIDA Conference Nov 5-7, 2004 ------->

Hispanic Herbal Remedies Database from CERT (http://www.torsades.org/medical-pros/herbs/herbs.cfm)

Medical Marijuana.com (http://www.medicalmarijuanaprocon.org/?gclid=COSRs-TGl4oCFRssVAodIlnemA)

General Mental Health

Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds-by Charles McKay,1841

Psychopharmacology Alert, from Manisses (Behavioral Healthcare Today)

President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Website: Allows those interested to follow progress of this 1st comprehensive study of public & private mental health service delivery system in nearly 25 yrs

"Mental Health: The Cornerstone of Health" Homepage contains mental health information related to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) research, programs, policies, and etc.

2002 APA Clinical Guidelines on Treating Bipolar Disorder

Australian Public Health Monographs on Drugs, including Methadone Treatment Monograph

Media Violence

/ AAP

A Basic Guideline to Bipolar Disorder

/ Medem-APA

A Closer Look at Bipolar Disorder

/ Medem-APA

Panic Disorder: Treatment Principles And Alternatives

/ APA

Schizophrenia: Treatment Principles And Alternatives

/ APA

Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Delirium

/ APA

Insomnia (from the Primary Care Network at: http://www.primarycarenet.org/issues/03-May2004%20PI.pdf)

Disability Statistics (http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ped/disabilitystatistics/issues.cfm#DefiningDisability)

Resources from the Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide (http://www.rochesterpreventsuicide.org/Links2.htm)

Mental Health Alternatives

Web-site on the New/Proposed diagnosis of "Substance Dependency-Induced Psychosis" (SDIP) by Norman Jay Gersabeck M.D.

Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Depression

Alternative Approaches to Mental Health Care

/ NIH

Herbal Medicines with Psychiatric Indications: A Review for Practitioners

/ CSMS

Herbal Remedies in Psychiatric Practice

/ JAMA/Archives

"Emotional Freedom Technique" Acupoint-based (http://www.emofree.com)

HOLLYHOCK (Cortez Island, BC) is an intentional centre for cultivation of human consciousness, well-being, and social impact. (http://www.hollyhock.ca)

BELIEFS OF THE ELDERS: CODE OF ETHICS FOR INDIGENOUS MEDICINE OF THE COLOMBIAN AMAZON by the UMIYAC (http://tinyurl.com/5sbvd)

Pain

DOE/NIH Workshop on Thermographic Approaches to Medical Diagnosis and Therapy

Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome

Pain Treatment & Patient Safety

/ AHRQ

Anatomy of the Spine

/ NPF

Methadone dosing recommendations for the treatment of chronic pain (http://www.pbm.va.gov/archive/methadonedosing.pdf)

Medical Ethics/Human Research Subject Protection

Research Ethics Proceedings from PRIM&R 2006 Meeting in DC (http://live.blueskybroadcast.com/bsb/client/CL_DEFAULT.asp?Client=14&PCAT=123&CAT=123)

Research Ethics Handouts from PRIM&R 2006: "washington06" (http://www.primr.org/education/2006_HRPP/handout_center_HRPP06.html)

Research Ethics Handouts-PRIM&R 2006 (local copy)

/ Public Responsibility In Medicine & Research Health Policy & Science Policy

Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy (http://www.defendingscience.org/About-Us.cfm)

Access to Care/National Health Program

Health Policy Resources from the National Health Policy Forum (NHPF) @ GW University

Inequalities in access to medical care by income in developed countries (CMAJ: January 17, 2006; 174 (2)).

U.S. Health System Performance: A National Scorecard-The US would have to improve performance on key indicators>50% to reach Benchmarks (http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff.25.w457/DC1)

Genomics

CDC presentations designed to provide public health professionals a foundation for understanding how genomics advances are relevant to public health: (http://www.cdc.gov/genomics/training/sixwks.htm)

Genomics: A Guide for Public Health: (http://www.genomicstoolkit.org/index.shtml)

Misc.

Litrix: Full Text Classics Collection Reading Room

WHO Air Quality Guidelines

Visionary Art by Alex Grey (http://www.alexgrey.com)

Beth Clay et al (http://www.bcandainternational.com/)

Periodic Table of the Elements-DEFINITIVE (http://chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/periodic/periodic.html)

Web resource on American Indian Health, from the National Library of Medicine: (http://americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov/)

Medical Toxicology Resources (http://www.acmt.net/main/resources.asp)

Washington Metro Station/Street Map w/Google Maps/Images (http://www.wmata.com/maps/metrorail_street_map.cfm)

Medical History (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=228)

Surfing and email without tracks (http://anonymouse.org/)

2create Public Photo/Graphic Albums (http://picasaweb.google.com/2create.yourMD)

Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)

Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)

Evidence Based Medicine Tool Kit

Center for Evidence Based Medicine

AAFP on Prevention of Antibiotic Resistance

Screening Test Recommendations

Clinical Epidemiology & Evidence-Based Medicine Glossary

U of Utah DFPM Evidence-Based Medicine Search Site

Tools for Public Health Professionals

Getting NIH Grants

GrantsNet

Go To The Source: Medline/Pubmed

Protecting Research Subjects/Patients

AAAS Links to Scientific Institutions

AAAS Links to Peer-Reviewed Journals

AAAS Links to Science Media

Adverse Events: LASER Eye Surgery

More on LASER Eye Surgery Adverse Events

Cochrane Collaboration for Systematic Reviews

Index to Cochrane Collaboration Reviews

BMJ Clinical Evidence

Centre for Evidence Based Mental Health

Investigating and dealing with Bias in Meta-Analysis (Sterne et al, BMJ)

BMJ Full Text Collections

Lasik Eye Surgery at the Washington Post

What proportion of healthcare is evidence based?

Evidence-based pain medicine: The good, the bad, and the ugly by Daniel B. Carr, M.D. & Leonidas C. Goudas, M.D., Ph.D. Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine; September-October 2001 ? Volume 26 ? Number 5 pp: 389-393.

Information Access for Public Health Professionals at the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR), National Library of Medicine

What proportion of healthcare is evidence based?

Evidence-based pain medicine: The good, the bad, and the ugly by Daniel B. Carr, M.D. & Leonidas C. Goudas, M.D., Ph.D. Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine; September-October 2001 ? Volume 26 ? Number 5 pp: 389-393.

Information Access for Public Health Professionals at the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR), National Library of Medicine

AHRQ Homepage for EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE

Surgical Treatment - Evidence Based and Problem-Oriented. Holzheimer, Rene G.; Mannick, John A., editors;Munich: Zuckschwerdt Publishers; c2001.

"HOT TOPICS" from the Cochrane Collaboration Consumer Network.

Search 510(k) Database at CDRH/FDA (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfPMN/pmn.cfm)

Search Other Databases at FDA's Center for Devices & Radiologic Health (http://www.fda.gov/search/databases.html)

Literature search tools (eg, PubMed, available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi;; Toxnet, available at:http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/)Clinical guidelines (eg, National Guidelines Clearinghouse, available at: http://www.ngc.gov/; and Primary Care Guidelines,available at: http://medicine.ucsf.edu/resources/guidelines/)

Public Responsibility in Medical Research.org

UK Primary Care Website, Encyclopedia & EBM:

(http://www.nelh-pc.nhs.uk/)

EVIDENCE BASED INFORMATION ON DRUG THERAPY from the Therapeutics Initiative of the Universityof British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada-University of British Columbia:

http://www.ti.ubc.ca/index.html

A Practicing Physician's Guide to doing Research from the USAFP:

http://www.usafp.org/Word_PDF_Files/Every-Doc-Can-Do-Research.doc

Every Doc Can Do Research Program Page from the USAFP, including the Every Doc Can Do Research Workbook from the Madigan Fellows and the Clinical Investigations Committee:

(http://www.usafp.org/research.htm)

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)

http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstfix.htm

AHRQ Guidelines Clearing House

http://www.guideline.gov/

NLM's Health Services Technology Assessment Texts (HSTAT)is a searchable collection of large, full-text clinical practice guidelines, technology assessments and health information.

(http://hstat.nlm.nih.gov/hq/Hquest/screen/HquestHome/s/62470

COCHRANE COLLABORATIVE COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE (CM)FIELD:the Complementary Medicine (CM) Field was established to help promote and facilitate the production of systematic reviews in topics such as acupuncture, massage, chiropractic, herbal medicine, homeopathy and mind-body therapy.

http://www.compmed.umm.edu/Cochrane/index.html

FDA Policy on Science-based Food Labelling (including Dietary Supplements): Better Health Information for Better Nutrition - A major FDA initiative announced in 2002

http://www.fda.gov/oc/mcclellan/chbn.html

Different Types of Bias:

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7404/1453

NAS Report on "The Polygraph and Lie Detection" (2003); Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences and Education (BCSSE), Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT):

(http://www.nap.edu/books/0309084369/html/)

The Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (CCOHTA):

(http://www.ccohta.ca/entry_e.html)

Iatrogenic Causes of Death in the USA:

(http://www.drugintel.com/pharma/iatrogenic_causes_of_death.htm)

QualityTools?, a clearinghouse for practical, ready-to-use tools for measuring and improving the quality of health care; from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ):

(http://www.qualitytools.ahrq.gov/)

The National Healthcare Disparities Report, developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ):

(http://www.qualitytools.ahrq.gov/disparitiesreport/download_report.aspx)

American Indian/Alaska Native Health Issues

  • IOM Report on Changing Numbers, Changing Needs: American Indian Demography and Public Health
  • Special Presentation on Trafficking of American Indian Girls and Women
  • Time Zone Converter including Shiprock for Navajo Time
  • ACTIVITIES TO ADDRESS HIV/AIDS IN NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES, MARCH, 2008; with lots of useful background education for a general audience
  • Native Story Library
  • Working Effectively with Tribal Governments: Online Course (http://tribal.golearnportal.org/intro/course-menu/index.php)
  • I wonder if this report has relevance to the obesity and diabetes disparities we see in AI/AN populations: Child_Trends-2007_07_11_RB_FoodInsecurity.pdf
  • Obesity and American Indians/Alaska Natives (http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/07/AI-AN-obesity/index.htm)

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