A the National Institute on Drug Abuse, you can read about how an expert panel called for expanding access to Methadone treatment by eliminating excessive regulations and increasing funding. This article was originally written in 1997.

This site provides a list of links to information on different types of drugs. Content on the pages include information about the drug itself, effects the drug has on the brain, common street names for the drug, and legal status.

Working to reduce the illicit drugs in America, this is the website of Partnership For A Drug Free America. This site contains a database of drugs with slang names as well as standard. For each drug there are descriptions of the drug...

This site from NFIA has a wide variety of information on drugs, their effects, prevention, treatment and much more!

Opioid use has been declared a national health emergency as overdose deaths from abusing opioids such as oxycodone, morphine and heroin, have skyrocketed in recent years. This class of drugs was once used only to treat severe pain...

The Drug Enforcement Administration website provides several sections of information designed to help teenagers and parents to get the facts about drugs in our society.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about problems created by the drug trade in America and in other countries. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

This lesson module is to be used with the program Understanding the Opioid Epidemic. Students will learn the definitions for "opioid" and "epidemic" terms. Students will also research factors that led to the current opioid epidemic as...

Read this article to understand the addiction process and factual information concerning various classes of drugs. The article contains links to similar sites as well. In Spanish.