To keep you informed on the latest information allowing you to have the most effective drug-testing program, below are links to various private and governmental organizations that foster the development and advancement of drug court systems and programs.

Resource and Funding Guide

American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS)
The American Academy of Forensic Sciences covers a wide variety of forensic scientific disciplines and consists of ten sections representing a wide range of forensic specialties. The members are physicians, attorneys, dentists, toxicologists, physical anthropologists, document examiners, psychiatrists, engineers, criminalists, educators, and others who practice, study and perform research in the forensic sciences. The membership represents all 50 United States, Canada, and 50 other countries worldwide. AAFS publishes the Journal of Forensic Sciences (an internationally recognized scientific journal which includes articles on drug testing issues). They also publish newsletters, hold an annual scientific meeting, and conduct other seminars and meetings. The website content is primarily available only to members, however there is a searchable database of articles published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences, but only the abstracts are available online at no charge; the full papers may be downloaded for a fee. The site also has links to a number of forensic science websites.

American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD)
The American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence was founded in 1984 to enhance the quality of patient care in treatment programs by promoting the growth and development of comprehensive methadone treatment services throughout the United States. The Association developed the State Methadone Guidelines (1993) in conjunction with the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT). The website has several opioid addiction treatment publications available.

American Probation and Parole Association (APPA)
APPA is at the vanguard in exploring issues relevant to the field of community-based corrections. American Probation and Parole Association is an international association composed of individuals from the United States, its U.S. territories and Canada; actively involved with probation, parole and community-based corrections, in both adult and juvenile sectors including all levels of government, local, state/provincial and federal agencies.

American University Justice Programs Office
The Justice Programs Office of the School of Public Affairs (SPA) at American University was established to support SPA's mission of applying the tools of scholarship and professionalism to the design and management of public programs. The Justice Programs Office provides technical assistance, research, evaluation, and training services to domestic and foreign government agencies and organizations in the area of justice system operations.

Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program (ADAM)
The ADAM program collected data about drug using, drug and alcohol dependency and treatment, and drug market participation among recently booked arrestees (within 48 hours) in 40 communities around the United States. The data and research findings that were derived from ADAM, and from the other research supported by this program, helped policymakers and practitioners make decisions concerning the problems of drugs and crime.

Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
A component of the Office of Justice Programs, the U.S. Department of Justice also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Office for Victims of Crime. The mission of BJA is to provide leadership and assistance in support of local criminal justice strategies to achieve safe communities. The Bureau of Justice Assistance supports criminal justice systems and communities with funding, technical assistance, and training. The website offers resources on adjudication, law enforcement, correctional services, prevention, and technology.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
CSAP is the sole Federal organization with responsibility for improving accessibility and quality of substance abuse prevention services. The Center provides national leadership in the development of policies, programs, and services to prevent the onset of illegal drug use, underage alcohol and tobacco use, and to reduce the negative consequences of using substances.

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), was created in October 1992 with a congressional mandate to expand the availability of effective treatment and recovery services for alcohol and drug problems.

Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics
The mission of the nation’s primary source for criminal justice statistics is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to Federal, State, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded. The website has statistics on drugs and crime as a special topic, with links to other drugs and crime resources. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/drugs.htm

Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN)
DAWN is a national public health surveillance system that monitors drug-related emergency department visits and deaths.

Drug and Alcohol Testing Industry Association (DATIA)
DATIA, founded in 1995 as the National Association of Collection Sites, has grown to represent over 1,000 members and expanded its scope to represent the entire spectrum of drug and alcohol service providers including collection sites, laboratories, consortiums/TPAs, MROs, and testing equipment manufacturers. DATIA’s mission includes: 1. to represent the drug and alcohol testing industry in Washington, DC on key legislative and regulatory issues; 2. to expand the workplace drug and alcohol testing market; 3. to provide members information, resources and benefits important to their operations; and 4. to promote the highest possible standards for the industry.
The website has links to a variety of drug testing legal and regulatory information.

DATIA also sponsors the drugtestingnews.com website, which is intended to provide the most comprehensive source for up-to-date news and information on the drug and alcohol testing industry including legislation, legal issues, business, and technology.

High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA)
The HIDTA Program was created by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. This act authorized the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to designate regions within the United States that face drug trafficking threats affecting other areas of the nation as HIDTAs. The HIDTA program provides resources to assist each HIDTA in developing and implementing a strategy to address its regional drug threat.

The Institute for a Drug-Free Workplace
The Institute is an independent coalition of businesses and individuals dedicated to preserving the rights of employers and employees in workplace drug-abuse prevention programs. The primary focus is on legal, legislative and regulatory issues in workplace drug testing. The website offers a number of publications for sale addressing workplace drug testing.

The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists (TIAFT)
TIAFT is an international association of over 1400 members from all regions of the world who are actively engaged in analytical toxicology or allied areas. This worldwide organization is the international organization most focused on drugs-of-abuse and drug testing issues. The aims of this association are to promote cooperation and coordination of efforts among members and to encourage research in forensic toxicology. The members come from the police force, medical examiner and coroner laboratories, horseracing and sports doping laboratories, hospitals, departments of legal medicine, pharmacology, pharmacy and toxicology. The TIAFT Bulletin appears quarterly in January, April, July and October and contains reports from the officers and committees of TIAFT, abstracts, articles on new technology, guidelines of laboratory practice and ethics, opinions from TIAFT members, case notes and news of members. Most of the useful material on the TIAFT website is available to members only. There is an open area of the website available to non-members, but it does not contain many resources.

International Journal of Drug Testing
The journal is a multidisciplinary, refereed journal devoted to the publication of scientific research, technical applications, policy, and other issues pertinent to the use of various biological specimens for evaluating exposure to psychoactive drugs.

Join Together
Join Together supports community-based efforts across the nation to reduce, prevent, and treat substance abuse. The website provides numerous resources, including a database of substance abuse issues, a section specific to drug courts and daily summaries of news items including research addressing substance abuse issues for alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Visitors can subscribe to have news headlines e-mailed on a daily basis (JTO Direct).

National Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC)
With nearly 12,000 members and 47 state affiliates representing more than 80,000 addiction counselors, NAADAC is the nation's largest network of alcoholism and drug abuse treatment professionals. The website offers several publications for a fee. The association also has a Certification Commission, established in 1990, which institutes three levels of credentials specifically for alcoholism and drug abuse counselors.

National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP)
Established in 1994, NADCP is the membership and outreach organization for over 1,200 drug courts across the nation.

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information– all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease. NCBI is a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This center hosts the National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINE database (PubMed,) a service of the National Library of Medicine that provides access to over 14 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life sciences journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. This is an excellent resource for researching the published medical literature, with abstracts available online at no charge. Full text articles must be ordered through prior arrangement with a library and can be expensive.

Search other National Library of Medicine specialized databases such as TOXLINE via the TOXNET website.

Search chemical names through the PubChem Compound databases.

National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)
NCADI is the largest Federal source of information about substance abuse research, treatment, and prevention available to the public.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
NCJRS is a federally sponsored information clearinghouse for people around the country and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice and drug control. NCJRS is administered by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The website offers a large number of reports, searchable by topic, available for download. There is also a special drugs and crime section, including a spotlight on drug courts, as well as links to other drugs/crime websites. Also available are biweekly electronic newsletters (http://www.ncjrs.org/justinfo/dates.html) that include links to full text, e-mail notifications of new publications and resources that match your specific areas of interests, and the Justice Resource Update quarterly publication that highlights NCJRS Partner agency announcements.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
One of the 27 National Institutes of Health, the NIAAA conducts and supports research in a wide range of scientific areas including genetics, neuroscience, epidemiology, health risks and benefits of alcohol consumption, prevention, and treatment. The website has numerous publications, research monographs, reports, and newsletters available, and a searchable database for alcohol-related articles, with abstracts available. There are also graphic resources available for download (PDF format) that have been used in the Institute's publications and presentations.

National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
NIJ is the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and is dedicated to researching crime control and justice issues.

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
The National Institute of Mental Health is one of the 27 National Institutes of Health and is the lead Federal agency for research on mental and behavioral disorders. Its website has much useful information on mental health disorders as well as numerous mental health publications available, but no information specific to drug abuse.

Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), a component of the Executive Office of the President, was established by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. The principal purpose of the ONDCP is to establish policies, priorities, and objectives for the Nation's drug control program. The goals of the program are to reduce illicit drug use, manufacturing, and trafficking, drug-related crime and violence, and drug-related health consequences. To achieve these goals, the Director of ONDCP is charged with producing the National Drug Control Strategy. The Strategy directs the Nation's anti-drug efforts and establishes a program, budget, and guidelines for cooperation among Federal, State, and local entities. The ONDCP website has numerous links to useful fact sheets on various drugs and drug issues, including a link to a comprehensive searchable file of street terms for drugs. http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetterms/

SBA Drug-Free Workplace Grants & Contracts
The Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1998 established a Drug-Free Workplace Demonstration Program within the U.S. Small Business Administration. The Act allows SBA to make grants to eligible intermediaries to assist small businesses financially and technically in establishing drug-free workplace (DFWP) programs.

Society of Forensic Toxicologists (SOFT)
The Society of Forensic Toxicologists, started in 1970, is the organization most focused on drugs-of-abuse and drug testing issues. Their annual meeting is where most domestic and even some international drug testing research is first presented. They publish a quarterly newsletter, ToxTalk, for members. The website is primarily for members, but abstracts from previous annual meetings, as published in the Journal of Analytical Toxicology, may be downloaded at no charge. The site also has links to other toxicology-related websites.

State & Local Office of National Drug Control Policy
A governmental website for state and local profiles, contacts and resources.

United States Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS)
The Department of Health and Human Services is the United States government’s principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Administration for Children & Families (ACF)
ACF is a federal agency funding state, territory, local, and tribal organizations to provide family assistance (welfare), child support, child care, Head Start, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and families. Actual services are provided by state, county, city and tribal governments, and public and private local agencies. ACF assists these organizations through funding, policy direction and information services.

U.S. Department of Justice
Drugs and Crime Facts
This site summarizes U.S. statistics about drug-related crimes, law enforcement, courts, and corrections from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and non-BJS sources.