Mood
Disorders (Mood
Disorders include a variety of disorders that often involve a
depressed mood or a loss of interest or pleasure in daily
activities)
Andrew's Depression Page
Andrew Fineberg provides personal and insightful information about depression. This site
includes facts on symptoms and treatment, and depression links.
Depression Alliance
Depression Alliance is a British charity offering help to people with depression, run by
sufferers themselves. This site contains useful information about different types of
depression, medical treatment and self help.
Depression Disorder and Treatment
Mental Health Net's comprehensive overview of depression.
Depression in Primary Care: Detection, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Quick reference guideline from the National Library of Medicine DOCLINE Information
publication
Depression is a Treatable Illness: a Patient's Guide
This booklet talks about major depressive disorder, which is only one form of depressive
illness published by the National Library of Medicine.
Dr. Ivan's Depression Central
Maintained by Dr. Ivan Goldberg, this site is Internet's central clearinghouse for
information on all types of depressive disorders and on the most effective treatments for individuals
suffering from Major Depression, Manic-Depression (Bipolar Disorder),
Cyclothymia, Dysthymia and other mood disorders.
Manic Depression/Bipolar Disorders
Links to Books, Leaflets, and other information regarding Depression, Bipolar Disorder, and
other mental illnesses.
Pendulum's Bipolar Disorder Portal to the Web
The information at this web site is for consumers, family members and mental health
workers to make informed decisions about the care and treatment of bipolar disorder, AKA
manic depression.
The Write Brain
Steven Thow's Mental Health Resources - a very comprehensive site for depression/bipolar
disorders. Tons of information.
You Asked About... Adolescent Depression
Internet Mental Health Link by Maurice Blackman, MB, FRCPC. Clinical
professor and director, division of child and adolescent psychiatry, University of Alberta Hospitals,
Edmonton, Alberta.
Substance
Abuse (A category related to
misuse and abuse of alcohol
and other drugs.)
Substance Abuse: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Links
Links General Resources Alcohol Tobacco Other Drugs; General Resources National Institute on
Drug Abuse; Indiana Prevention Resource Center; National Clearinghouse on Substance Abuse
(Canada), and other agencies.
Growing Up Drug-Free: A Parent's Guide to Prevention
A public domain publication by the U.S. Department of Education's Safe and Drug-Free Schools
Program.
Higher Education Drug Abuse Center
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Higher Education Center provides support to
all institutions of higher education in their efforts to address alcohol and other drug
problems.
National Association for Children of Alcoholics
The National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA. One of the major activities of
NACoA is to produce educational materials to enable adults to help these children. Resources
available through NACoA include a variety of curricular packages, including videos, posters,
comic books, and guides for teachers, physicians and other professionals who touch children's
lives.
National Inhalant Prevention Coalition Website
The NIPC serves as an inhalant referral and information clearinghouse, stimulates media
coverage about inhalant issues, develops informational materials, produces ViewPoint (a
quarterly newsletter), provides training and technical assistance and leads a week-long
national grassroots inhalant education and awareness campaign.
National Institute of Drug Abuse
NIDA supports over 85 percent of the world's research on the health aspects of drug abuse and
addiction. The site provides scientific advances in the understanding and treatment of drug
abuse, including a recent nation-wide survey that released 1998 data for alcohol and drug use
by adolescents.
Stanton Peele Addiction Web Site
Stanton Peele Addiction Web Site is financed through a grant from the Drug Policy Foundation
and provides an unique opinion to the problem of addictions.
The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
The site contains a massive amount of information on topics relating to alcohol and drug
abuse and addiction. There links to hundreds of fact sheets on these topics, an online forum,
community involvement tools, and much more.
The Treatment Improvement Exchange
The Treatment Improvement Exchange (TIE) is a resource sponsored by the Division of State and
Community Assistance of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to provide information
exchange between alcohol and substance abuse agencies.
