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What's New - April 15, 1998


Is Everything I Do an Addiction?

Article by Paul Early, M.D. delves into the issue of cross-addiction in depth. Reprint from Insight Magazine, a publication of Ridgeview Institute.


Conference - I

The details on an upcoming conference titled "Narcotic Use, Addiction and Treatment: Trends of the 1990s and Implications for the New Millennium are now available.


Conference II

Here's a head's up on the 1998 UCSD Summer Clinical Institute In Addiction Studies. It's scheduled for Aug. 3 - 6 in La Jolla, CA. Workshops and presenters are listed at the site.


Personality Disorders List

Subscribe to the Personality Disorders Mail List from this location. In the words of the list creators it is "an information and support list for people who are diagnosed as having, or consider themselves to have, a personality disorder, or personality disorder "traits". Also welcome are the friends or family of sufferers, and psychologists, therapists or other workers in the caring professions who wish to improve their understanding of these disorders."

Prevention Resource

Richmond Youth Service is a UK based site developed with kids in mind. It uses a house as metaphor and imagemap. Still under construction, this site bears a look and a bookmark. It is sure to get better as it is completed.

Moyers Redux

A well-trafficked bulletin board has been founded as a result of the recent PBS Bill Moyers special Close To Home. Join in the discussion.

They Call it What?

Latest edition of the street slang list. Now why does "Fifty - one" mean crack cocaine?

The Century Council

Organized by "America's Leading Distillers" The Century Council hopes to impact drunk driving and underage drinking. Controversial? Conflict? You visit and decide.

And More Meth Links

It is the drug du jour you know!

Crystal Meth Anonymous - Just what the name implies!
Meth in the News - Several articles from Arizona.
PDFA Meth Info - Fact page from Partnership for a Drug Free America.
Built for Speed - An interesting and sort of unexpected article on Meth. Complete with musical accompaniment.
Precursor Chemical Control Strategy - Trying to lick the meth problem by controlling its components.
Methamphetamine Trends - ONDCP paper tracks meth spread through the western U.S.


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