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Feeling Good Handbook
A cognitive therapist suggests ways to overcome a variety negative thought patterns that hinder success. 768 pages.
Real Girl/Real World: Tools for Finding Your True Self
A book addressing topics such as self-image, eating disorders, menstruation, sexual activity, and feminism. 221 pages.
This Web site features information, quizzes and more, designed to help teens check where they are with drugs and alcohol and figure out what steps they should take if they are headed towards trouble.
The Do It Now Foundation aims to create and disseminate information on drugs and alcohol that is accurate, creative, realistic, timely and unbiased. Avoids moralizing about individuals' drug-related decisions except for when these decisions impinge on the rights of others (i.e. date rape, DUI, etc.).
This Web page includes facts and information about date rape drugs such as GHB and Rohypnol. Produced by the Hendersonville Police Department of Hendersonville, TN.
Facts On Tap offers "just the facts" about drugs and alcohol. You can read facts, take quizzes, ask for advice and find treatment programs. Facts On Tap is a project of Phoenix House.
This Web site contains information about various drugs, stories from teens, strategies for avoiding drugs and more. Produced by the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign.
This Web page connects family and friends of drug and alcohol abusers with professional interventionists.
MA is a fellowship of individuals who want to stop using marijuana. This Web site includes information about their 12-step program and MA-produced literature.
This Web site includes information about marijuana for teens and parents.
NIDA for Teens: The Science Behind Drug Abuse
This Web site features information about how drugs affect the mind and body, as well as teens' stories, a place to have questions answered by a professional, a quiz, and more. Sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
NIDA: Facts about Substance Abuse and Risky Sexual Behavior
This Web page includes facts about teen substance use and its relationship to risky sexual behavior.
Overboard is an online, thirteen-issue comic book/soap opera that looks at addiction. Produced by Thirteen (WNET New York) and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Mutual of America Life Insurance Company.
Students Against Destructive Decisions
The SADD Web site provides news and information aimed at helping teens avoid destructive behavior.
Tobacco, Drugs and Alcohol (from the Palo Alto Medical Foundation)
This Web site features facts and information about drug and alcohol use and abuse.
AL-ANON and AlaTEEN
1-888-4AL-ANON
The Al-ANON and AlaTEEN hotline provides help and information for anyone who has been affected by another's drinking problem. Operators available in English, Spanish and French.
1-800-448-3000
The Boys Town National Hotline is a 24-hour resource and referral service available to guys and girls, who may be dealing with abuse, depression, substance abuse or family issues. English and Spanish-speaking operators are available, as well as a TTY line (1-800-448-1833), which provides assistance to deaf and hearing-impaired people.
CHILD HELP USA
1-800-4-A-CHILD
Child Help USA's hotline, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Can provide assistance in over 140 languages through translation services. Offers crisis intervention, information, referrals to emergency, social service and support resources, and more.
Girls' and Boys' Town National Hotline
1-800-448-3000
The Girls' and Boys' Town National Hotline is a 24-hour resource and referral service available to anyone. Operators are available in English and Spanish, and a TDD line (1-800-448-1833) provides assistance to the deaf and hearing-impaired.
1-800-246-PRIDE (7743)
GLBT National Youth Talkline's youth volunteers are available Monday to Friday from 8 p.m. to midnight Eastern time to provide LGBTQ people up to age 25 with peer counseling, information and referrals to local resources.
Marijuana Anonymous
1-800-766-6779
The Marijuana Anonymous hotline features information and referrals to local meetings.
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
1-800-729-6686
The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information has English- and Spanish-speaking operators available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide you with drug treatment information and referrals.
National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
1-800-622-2255
The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence hotline features 24-hour information, help and referrals for those with alcohol and drug problems and their families.
National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Referral Routing Service
1-800-662-HELP (4357)
This hotline offers 24-hour referral services to drug and alcohol treatment centers in English and Spanish.
1-800-RUNAWAY (786-2929)
The National Runaway Switchboard is available 24 hours a day for any teenager who is thinking of running away from home, has runaway and wants to return home or for a teen who may have a friend who has run away and is looking for help. The line is confidential, anonymous and free.
National Sexual Assault Hotline
1-800-656-HOPE (4673)
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) is the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline and the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline at Rainn.org.
National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline
1-866-331-9474
If you are being abused by a partner or know someone who is, call the National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline, which is available from 4:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. Central time.
National Teen Emergency Hotline
1-800-448-3000
1-800-547-7433
PRIDE Institute offers inpatient and outpatient treatment to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people who struggle with addiction or mental illness.
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