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- Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
(CCSA)
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The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) is Canada's national
addictions agency. Its mission is to provide objective, evidence-based
information and advice to help reduce the health, social and economic
harm associated with substance abuse and addictions.
(Canada. Government of Canada)
- Health Canada
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Health Canada is the federal government department responsible for helping Canadians
maintain and improve their health, while respecting individual choices
and circumstances.
(Canada. Government of Canada)
- Public Health Agency of Canada
(PHAC)
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Led by the Chief Public Health Officer, the Public Health Agency of
Canada (PHAC) plays a major role in a Canadian network of expertise
and research in public health. The Agency coordinates federal efforts
in identifying and reducing public health risks and threats and supports
national readiness to respond to health crises.
(Canada. Government of Canada)
- European Bulletin
on Communicable Disease (EUROSURVEILLANCE)
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Eurosurveillance aims to be a free and open access multiformat journal
that publishes authoritative, peer-reviewed information on communicable
diseases from a European perspective. In 2005, it embarked on the process
of becoming the regular scientific communication of the European Centre
for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), and other professional collaborators
with the ECDC.
(France. European Union)
- European Centre for the Epidemiological
Monitoring of AIDS (EUROHIV)
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EuroHIV co-ordinates the surveillance of HIV/AIDS in the WHO European
Region. Its mission is to understand, improve and share European HIV/AIDS
surveillance data in order to better inform disease prevention, control
and care. Its objectives include making international comparisons,
assessing trends, characterizing affected populations, predicting
disease burden and evaluating surveillance methods.
(France. European Union)
- European Monitoring Centre for
Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
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The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
is the central reference point for drug information in the European
Union. Its role is to provide the EU and its Member States with objective,
reliable and comparable information on drugs and drug addiction. The
EMCDDA helps policy-makers, researchers and specialists in the field
understand the nature of the problem and formulate appropriate responses.
(Portugal. European Union)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC)
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the
13 major operating components of the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), which is the principal agency in the United States
government for protecting the health and safety of Americans and for
providing essential human services.
(United States. Department of Health and Human Services)
- CDC Community Outreach to
Injection Drug Users
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This website discusses "Outreach". Outreach starts where
the client is—in the community and on the streets—and
provides prevention information; education and risk reduction counselling;
HIV testing; and referrals to substance abuse treatment, medical
services, and other support services.
(United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention)
- CDC HIV Prevention among Injection
Drug Users
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Injection drug use is important in the transmission of blood-borne
infections (particularly HIV and hepatitis B and C). This web site
provides access to materials and resources developed to assist HIV
prevention providers working with IDUs and their sex partners.
(United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention)
- CDC National Prevention Information
Network (NPIN)
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The CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) is the U.S.
reference, referral, and distribution service for information on
HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis
(TB). NPIN produces, collects, catalogs, processes, stocks, and disseminates
materials and information on HIV/AIDS, STDs, and TB to organizations
and people working in those disease fields in international, national,
state, and local settings.
(United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention)
- National Institutes of Health
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Founded in 1887, the National Institutes of Health today is one of
the world's foremost medical research centres, and the Federal focal
point for medical research in the United States. The NIH, comprising
27 separate Institutes and Centres, is one of eight health agencies
of the Public Health Service which, in turn, is part of the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services.
(United States. Department of Health and Human Services)
- National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
conducts and supports research to study the causes of allergic, immunologic,
and infectious diseases, and to develop better means of preventing,
diagnosing, and treating these illnesses.
(United States. Department of Health and Human Services. National
Institutes of Health)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
(NIDA)
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Recent scientific advances have revolutionized our understanding
of drug abuse and addiction. The majority of these advances, which
have dramatic implications for how to best prevent and treat addiction,
have been supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
NIDA supports over 85 percent of the world's research on the health
aspects of drug abuse and addiction. NIDA supported science addresses
the most fundamental and essential questions about drug abuse, ranging
from the molecule to managed care, and from DNA to community outreach
research.
(United States. Department of Health and Human Services. National
Institutes of Health)
- National Library of Medicine (NLM)
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NLM collects, organizes, and makes available biomedical science
information to scientists, health professionals, and the public.
The Library's Web-based databases, including PubMed/Medline and MedlinePlus,
are used extensively around the world. NLM conducts and supports
research in biomedical communications; creates information resources
for molecular biology, biotechnology, toxicology, and environmental
health; and provides grant and contract support for training, medical
library resources, and biomedical informatics and communications
research.
(United States. Department of Health and Human Services. National
Institutes of Health)
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