Previous listing from the "What's New" pages of the

Web of Addictions

We are archiving our old "What's New" pages to make for easier reading and information retrieval. Only the past two or three "What's New" pages will be repeated wholly here. The rest will be in digest form at the end of the page. In additiona, any links that have been permanently added elsewhere on the Web of Addiction will be removed from the digest. We hope this helps anyone who wants to review the valuable information we have presented over the past several months, and helps us avoid repetition.

What's New - June 15, 1995

The Palo Alto Weekly, an excellent online periodical, published a thought provoking story about the war on drugs in their May 31 edition. You will want to read this interesting interview with an experienced law enforcement agent.

Speaking of reading material, check out an extensive list of reading material recommended for teens and young adults from the Utah State Library Division. This list includes selections on drugs, crime, AIDs, and sexuality among its topics. The drug reference section has titles from the past 4 years including "Addictions Handbook", "Drugs and Suicide" and "Everything You Need to Know About an Alcoholic Parent".

From the Online Checklists Department, we offer the following:

A comprehensive resource for use by healthcare professionals is available from theNational Institute of Health gopher.
"Guidlines for Drinking Alcohol" provides several recommendations for anyone wanting to reduce the risks associated with drinking alcoholic beverages.
You can also "Evaluate the Risk for Substance Abuse" on the Internet.

Finally, we are planning a new section on the Web of Addictions to list information on conferences in the U.S. and around the world that would be of interest to our reader. Your comments and submissions are welcome as we begin this new construction soon. Our e-mail service is accessible below.

What's New - June 5, 1995

This update to the Web of Addictions consists of a major revision to the FACTS section of the Web of Addictions. We have more than doubled the number of fact sheets available. If you have not looked at the FACTS page recently check it out. We are sure you will find something useful. We located the fact sheets on the web sites listed below. Many of the sites listed contain information in addition to the fact sheets that are referenced on the FACT page. We encourage you to explore each site.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Center for Substance Abuse Research , University of Maryland
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Indiana University Alcohol and Drug Information Center
Oncolink at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Illinois Counseling Center
Virginia Addiction Training Center
World Health Organization

And in previous weeks.....

We pointed you to "NEIGHBORHOODS ONLINE", a new Internet source of community building resources as they relate to neighborhood problems and programs: community development, economic development, education, safety, etc.

We presented information on the Living Cyber committee which seeks to bring together volunteers from all modem-accesible AA venues, boards and commercial online services and to link up all internet resources. The group plans to have a hospitality suite for the July international conference in San Diego.For more information e-mail committee-request@world.std.com.

We brought you several links to websites responding to the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City:

Internet Oklahoma
The net community's " Sympathy Card from the World".
TheOklahoma Daily, the student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma.
TheAmerican Psychological Association's web page on psychology's response to the disaster.
SWAN, Social Workers Advocating Network technologies, which set up a page to coordinate social work's response to the disaster.

We also brought you information regarding:

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in the matter of the CITY OF EDMONDS v. OXFORD HOUSE, INC., et al.
Complementary/Alternative Medicine
Addiction and Recovery Ministry

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