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Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is a leader in the fight to reduce tobacco use and its devastating consequences in the United States and around the world. By changing public attitudes and public policies on tobacco, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids strives to prevent kids from smoking, help smokers quit and protect everyone from secondhand smoke.

Centers for Disease Control - Tobacco

The tobacco website for the Centers for Disease Control links visitors to the latest information on the hazardous effects of smoking and tobacco use and the latest tobacco related research.

Darryl Inaba & William E. Cohen, Uppers, downers, all arounders: physical and mental effects of psychoactive drugs (Oregon: CNS Publications, 2007).

This book combines the current information available on the neurochemistry, physiology, sociology, and history of drugs and other compulsive behaviors.

The Journal of Tobacco Control

This international, peer-reviewed journal covers almost every facet of tobacco use and the related consequences on society, the environment, and the public’s health.

Michael Kuhar, The addicted brain: why we abuse drugs, alcohol, and nicotine (New Jersey: FT Press, 2012).

Written by a top neuroscientist, this book discusses how drugs affect our reward and pleasure centers in the brain and how their effects are similar to other habit-forming behaviors.

Monitoring the Future: A continuing study of American youth

Monitoring the Future is an on-going, nationally representative study of the attitudes, behaviors, and values of American teens. The research is conducted at the University of Michigan and is funded through the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The Partnership® at DrugFree.org

The Partnership® brings together scientists, industry experts, communications professionals, and parents to provide assistance to families whose children may be struggling with addiction.

David Sheff, Beautiful boy: a father's journey through his son's addition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008).

This resource reveals first hand the power of addiction. This book is written from a father's point of view as his son deals with the addiction of methamphetamine. This memoir will give readers more understanding of the control drugs can have over a young life.

Nicholas Sheff, Tweak: growing up on methamphetamines (New York: Antheneum Books, 2007).

This New York Times Best Seller tells the story of a young man’s journey through life and struggles with an addiction to illicit drugs.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Tobacco Products

The US FDA is the regulatory agency that oversees the product requirements, marketing strategies, and warnings for tobacco products in the United States. This site contains information on protecting youth from tobacco products, as well as resources on health information and current research studies.

YRBSS: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System

The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) is a tool all teachers can benefit from using. The YRBSS monitors health-risk behaviors of middle and high school students, which includes tobacco use, unhealthy dietary behaviors, inadequate physical activity, alcohol and other drug use, sexual behaviors that contribute to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including HIV infection, and behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence. Teachers can use the YRBSS to assess trends in priority health risk behaviors among students.